A view from the Itica Window
Learning and training are the same thing, right?
Wrong, they are fundamentally different, but many organisations do not recognise the differences and so “train” their people and wonder why their business stagnates.
Training is about giving an individual the tools to do their job, so the focus is on the direct benefit to the organisation. Learning is all about developing the individual, enabling them to grow and is a benefit to the person, and ultimately, the organisation. More…
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In a downturn most organisations will be looking at ways to reduce costs and IT Contracts are an obvious target. However, many people are finding that their contracts, which were written when the business was expanding, do not cater for circumstances when the business shrinks.
So how do you ensure that you have the right flexibility when you need it? More…
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Am I alone in this or have you been noticing people becoming less tolerant and more stressed with each other lately? More…
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There has been a lot of virtualisation vendor marketing directed towards persuading everyone that connecting internal and external data centre “clouds” together using a new term “federation” is the thing to be doing. If we believe what is being said it will be very easy to move your application workload around the “cloud” between internal and external resources while keeping the performance within your SLAs.
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The CIPD 2009 Learning and Development survey includes some worrying results concerning the roll out of new IT systems and the impact on people.
According to the survey: More…
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The radio news comes into earshot on a busy morning – “the latest economic indicators are showing improved business confidence…” You wait for more details of how this is measured or which key group have been surveyed but nothing…. We are left hanging on, wondering where this revelation comes from!?! It’s obviously some kind of special knowledge that we mere mortals (cogs in the economy) are not party to! More…
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When entering into a new IT contract it all too easy to focus on the exiting and interesting parts of the new technology or service and forget to establish what will happen at the end. Failure to address what happens at the end of technology agreements can have significant cost and service impacts.
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We are in the middle of a significant recession and the last 12 months has been one of turmoil with the FTSE falling by 32%, the banking system in crisis and many well known businesses failing. Most businesses are therefore looking for ways to save money and “overhead” areas such as IT are often targeted. IT managers are used to “doing more with less”, as IT organisations have become more efficient, but how should IT respond now to demands for cost reductions?
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Almost 60 per cent of organisations in Western Europe will outsource more IT and business process functions in 2009, while renegotiation of existing contracts will rise to more than 60 per cent, according to a recent survey from Gartner, Inc.
So, outsourcing activity has risen as the recession has deepened, but is this the correct reaction, or are organisations just chasing cost reduction at any price?
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The Cloud definitely has a lot to offer plenty of organisations, some applications, like email are simply utility now, so I would recommend looking to the cloud for them. You would be hard pressed to provide the same for less than hosted and managed service providers are, considering the assured security, SLAs, backup, DR, mobile device support, anywhere access, the list goes on… What you should realise though is that your WAN and Internet connections become more important in the service chain.
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