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Business is social – but is your business socialised?

September 14, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
‘It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, you’re in the people business.’… read more...

It’s blown the budget, but has enterprise IT failed?

September 1, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The bigger the organisation – and the more public the results – the greater the risk of budget blowout and ‘failure’… read more...
Quest for Digital transformation

Transformation: Put documents and processes in the crosshairs

August 22, 2016 | Newsdesk
Take a closer look at information management in the quest for digital transformation… read more...

How to navigate the disruption economy

Incumbents needn’t be victims of disruption if they recognise the crucial thresholds and act in time, write Chris Bradley and Clayton O’Toole (McKinsey & Company)… read more...
NZ digital nation strangled

Outgoing NZTech chair: Bureaucrats and vested interests choke NZ Inc.

August 3, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The march to New Zealand becoming an efficient digital nation is being strangled by selfish interests, charges Bennet Medary… read more...
DWCNZ Michael Sampson

Start with the tech, transform later

July 28, 2016 | Hayden McCall
Agnostic tosh is costing lost opportunities says Office365 protagonist Michael Sampson… read more...

How NASA landed a ton on Mars

June 16, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
The out-of-this-world power of collaboration… read more...

New Zealand’s digital divide

June 15, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Estonia may seem distant, but it provides lessons in what government digital leadership really looks like… read more...

When executives go bad: avoiding a Weldon

June 10, 2016 | Clare Coulson
Ending up with the wrong hire can be a painful exercise all round… read more...

Head in the cloud

May 25, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
It’s perhaps the ultimate integration: connect your brain directly to the cloud… read more...

Where did you buy your software?

May 2, 2016 | Clare Coulson
The proliferation of software and apps has created its own need for farmers’ markets in cyber space, and they are hot property right now… read more...

Is a smart city really a thing?

April 6, 2016 | Clare Coulson
The hyping of the IoT by vendors and analysts may be moving to a new phase as city planners compete to be the cleverest… read more...

Dealing to the donkey work: How automated integration drives innovation

March 15, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Integration, recognised as a powerful concept which allows IT to better serve business, is traditionally difficult and expensive… read more...

Gartner’s mid-market ERP Magic Quadrant: Which vendors shine?

February 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
With the release of its Magic Quadrant for Single-Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies, Gartner has pointed out those vendors which are delivering the goods… read more...

Customer experience: Apple excepted, mass personalisation is the new frontier

February 18, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Companies focusing on developing ‘one to one’ relationships are winning an emerging battle of customer experience – but how come Apple pays so little attention to it?… read more...

Powered by cloud, CFOs are the new innovators

February 11, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Finance, as essential a function as it is to any business, isn’t generally known as a hotbed of innovation. However, according to Oracle, perceptions and reality are changing where finance is concerned, and it is perhaps not hard to see why… read more...

Generation rent

January 12, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Everything as a service and nary ownership of it… read more...

Big data after the hype

December 3, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
Big data is perhaps another of those IT industry things that makes you go ‘oh, really, show me the money’. But while a little hype fatigue can be expected, the use cases are steadily appearing… read more...

Why (and how) your company has to become a talent magnet

November 23, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
In advice which Lotharios everywhere have made a part of their DNA, Greg Savage says talent acquisition is the art of seduction… read more...

Dynamics market gets shakeup

November 12, 2015 | Donovan Jackson
The Microsoft Dynamics partner environment is in flux with a number of players undergoing transformation as they are snapped up by larger operators… read more...
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