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Telco update: 2013 trends to watch

March 28, 2013 | Paul Brislen
It sounds like a date from the far-flung future – 2013 – but here it is, ready or not and Paul Brislen says the telco space will no doubt have a few surprises in the year ahead… read more...
Algorithms vs people

Quality search requires quality people not just algorithms

March 28, 2013 | Gerry McGovern
On its own, search technology will not help us find the right things quickly. We need human expertise and human management… read more...

Project success comes from the top

March 18, 2013 | Marg Roberts
Approximately half of all significant ICT projects fail in terms of delivering what the business expected. Marg Roberts considers what needs to be done to improve the success rate… read more...

Management practice lags behind tech innovation

March 18, 2013 | Gerry McGovern
In many organisations management practice is about 20 years behind the web. Gerry McGovern discusses what this really means… read more...

Gartner predicts mobile analytics as top CIO priority

March 18, 2013 | Daniel Yuen
Every business is looking at how to make better use of the data it has and to make sense out of all the small details. As 2013 gets well underway, Gartner analyst Daniel Yuen outlines a number of BI trends that will shape the strategies and tactics that organisations will need to consider over the next four years… read more...
Jaguar

My Jaguar versus your systems

January 17, 2013 | Owen McCall
Owen McCall talks cars, computers and reliability… read more...
Mobile phone retail

Making BYOD a success in retail

January 7, 2013 | Mobico
Retail BYOD shifts the focus of the retail assistant from expertise to enablement, but will the customer journey suffer? Aldas Palubinskas discusses this up and coming trend… read more...

Who cares about ERP?

November 22, 2012 | Brett Roberts
Brett Roberts ponders the state of the monolithic ERP model and offers some disruptive ideas of his own… read more...

IT failure: an industry shame

September 14, 2012 | iStart
With around half of all IT projects fail to deliver on expectations it’s safe to say that there’s something seriously wrong with the way IT projects are being both planned and executed. iStart cornered Simpl founder and CEO Bennett Medary to find out just what’s behind such a dire statistic… read more...
IT projects

Why am I doing this project?

September 14, 2012 | Scott Groombridge
Been assigned onto yet another IT project, but not entirely sure what the project is, why you’ve been put on it and what it all means? Scott Groombridge has some advice… read more...

Company Executive charged with project abuse

September 14, 2012 | Owen McCall
Running a successful IT project is a lot like raising a child. So why do project managers so often abandoned them at birth? read more...
Windows 8

Windows 8 Review

September 6, 2012 | Gunnar Berger
I’ve been on a mission for a while now to dive into Windows 8 and to try and come up with a definite opinion on what I think about the OS; admittedly I’ve been having a very difficult time… read more...

Dwight was right – planning is useless, but indispensible

April 11, 2012 | Brett Roberts
For successful companies, says Brett Roberts, it’s all about preparing for the battle. But while you can’t succeed without adequate preparation, planning can quickly veer into ‘useless’ territory, especially when those ‘best laid plans’ equate to little more than opportunities lost… read more...
iPhone used in bed

You don’t need a mobile strategy

March 13, 2012 | Gerry McGovern
Mobile is a platform. It is a tactic, not a strategy. What you need is a strategy for the connected customer. Gerry McGovern explains… read more...

Forecast: Partly Cloudy

February 3, 2012 | Peter Dickinson
When it comes to computing solutions, it’s what they do – not how they’re delivered – that really counts. Duncan Campbell from ERP solutions provider Greentree takes a closer look at hosting ERP solutions in the cloud… read more...

Hurry up and wait

October 7, 2011 | Owen McCall
For large enterprises, the cloud is a revolution for those processes that are necessary, but not necessarily that important. Therefore, think very carefully before you move any process or application into the cloud, especially if it’s a source of competitive advantage, says Owen McCall… read more...

What we can learn from Yahoo!

September 22, 2011 | Gerry McGovern
Yahoo is an extremely popular website, yet its stock has performed really badly. Why? Because it sells stuff (banner ads) people don’t want to buy… read more...

What’s wrong with NZ’s take on copyright?

September 15, 2011 | Allan Freeth
Now that the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 has come into effect, many Kiwis will have a raft of new worries when it comes to their internet writes TelstraClear chief executive Allan Freeth… read more...

4 things you must know before choosing an ERP vendor

May 26, 2011 | MYOB
Choosing the best vendor partner is critical to any successful ERP implementation – because in this instance the word ‘partner’ isn’t just a figure of speech… read more...

‘Please sir, can I have some more productivity…?’

December 23, 2009 | Mobico
GM of leading NZ mobile solutions provider Mobico, Aldas Palubinskas, is passionate about productivity. He discusses how leading NZ businesses can achieve real world productivity gains and how they can get the dickens out of their day… read more...
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