As many of us prepare to go on leave over the Christmas/New Year period we’re cleaning-up our email and perhaps grumbling about the avalanche of…
Since the dawn of the personal computer, the hardware industry has relied on a cycle of obsolesce of just a few years. Working with their…
Imagine an electronics company planning a new tablet or phone and building the business case based on pre-committed orders. Similarly, imagine a utility trying to…
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with a range of my Deloitte colleagues on a report into the “digital disruption”…
There is a curious phenomenon in IQ tests. Every test is designed to have an average score across the population of 100 but for any…
Everyone is talking about cloud computing, but most of the debate misses the point. Cloud computing isn’t really about computers at all, it is about…
One of the best ways of understanding your success is by measuring how happy your customers are. To make sense of their response you obviously…
Anyone who has ever tried to negotiate a standard for data storage or communication will confirm that it is difficult to get agreement and even…
History is replete with examples where ideas are launched with great fanfare and yet fail while subsequent iterations of very similar ideas are hugely successful. …
Two words seemingly on every technologist’s lips are “big data”. The Wikipedia definition for big data is: “In information technology, big data consists of datasets…