Adobe has created an online firestorm and, once again software licensing is in the headlines. In brief, Adobe has announced “Creative Cloud” (CC) to replace their “Creative Suite” (CS), which is in its sixth major version. At a time of apps and pretty cheap software, Adobe has maintained their premium-pricing model. So Photoshop, for example, still retails at around £700. [...]
Barb Dossetter of CIO Connect discussed the challenges and priorities of Transforming Business in the Digital Era at the Enterprise Innovation event in Singapore. We’re already in the digital world and its been driven by the business and our customers. As IT professionals, our opportunity is to bring our skills and experience to make sure that it is delivered with [...]
We have Leading Women in our industry. Make no mistake, we are there! But there’s not enough of us …yet. In Singapore among many professions, 50% of the graduates are women. But somewhere between graduation and assuming a leadership role, many of us disappear from the career track. This has huge implications in so many different directions. Great leadership requires [...]
I have been casting around for a subject for this blog as is usual as my deadline approaches. You may have noticed I like to find a topic outside of the world of the CIO and then draw some lessons from it, although I don’t always succeed. I did wonder about developing a theme Caitlin Moran introduced in The Times [...]
Tweet, read, respond: someone, somewhere, is probably reading your tweet, even if it’s just one person. A million active users have tweeted at least a billion times using the ‘tweet this’ button during the past three years. At the same time, not everyone on the social networking platform is quite as active and as many as 25% of Twitter users [...]
A recent article in CIO magazine online analysed migration from Windows XP. For the unaware, 8 April 2014 is the final, final end support date from Microsoft for this 12-years-old operating system – unless they extend it again, as has happened several times before. The article did read a bit like an advertorial for some migration specialist company, who had [...]
Indulge me for a moment. I want to talk about something that we all recoil from, something we think has been done to death. I want to talk about the future of the CIO. I’m sorry but there are things going on that really open up a need to consider this question again. I was with a group of senior [...]
Walking through the Yorkshire Dales recently I was struck by how some very old bridges – built centuries ago in some cases, essentially for a horse and cart – were now coping with large lorries. Some were narrow and had to be one way working nowadays, of course, and others had been bypassed completely. The same is true in the [...]
“Why Microsoft must be like Google and Apple” was the headline of an article highlighted in the CIO Connect Daily News recently. It’s just one example of an article based around such a simple premise, and there are so many pieces online that equate one particular approach with the deficiencies of another. Personally, I think it is unhelpful and lazy [...]
I should probably start with an apology for the title of this blog, assuming, that is, that my editor has allowed it through. Thank you for reading regardless, I hope to show it was worth your time. We are around 5% into the New Year, and although most of the press have moved on from their agenda-setting routine at this [...]
The down escalator was stopped at Marylebone tube station a few days ago. There was a big notice, helpfully informing commuters of this fact and warning them the fixed stairs had 121 steps. Yet a large number of people still wobbled when they stepped onto the stationary escalator. The many visual clues were not sufficient to overcome the deeply learned [...]
I read an article a few days ago. It was called “Why I hate Microsoft”. The main thrust was Windows 8 was rubbish, although there were a couple of other things mentioned too, which I will come back to. The interesting thing was the number of comments this article generated and the venom expressed in those comments. Go to any [...]