Get a gaggle of gristled old web developers together and after comparing war wounds inflicted by The Great Browser Wars, they’ll fondly recall the good-old-bad-old days. It’s not so long since it was a struggle to justify spending a decent proportion of organisational time and resources on a website. When the Internet was only just […]
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What to do when good projects go bad
Even though many will deny it, anybody who has worked in IT for any length of time will have been part of what started out as a great project, with an amazing brief, and creative team, but which ultimately, for whatever reason, was aborted. I chose the word ‘aborted’ rather than ‘failed’ because I’ve been […]
Migrating from Salesforce to sugarCRM? You might need some relationship counselling
Breaking up is never easy. In business, as in private life, sometimes relationships just don’t go the way we thought they would. Even if everyone involved has the best of intentions. In particular new relationships can start out amazingly well, but occasionally, and usually gradually, they can become difficult to maintain once everyday reality sets […]
Exploding the “expensive” SharePoint myth
There is emerging evidence that IT budgets are being protected from cuts being made across businesses in the current economic conditions. This is great news for those of us who work to ensure that IT is considered as an integral part of corporate strategy rather than the after-thought it can sometimes be. Even so, IT departments must […]
Veolia Water Sponsors ‘Naturally Dry’ Garden at Chelsea
Today is the member’s first day at the 2012 Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show. And what a beautiful day it is to attend a flower show too. The weather is sunny, however the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is host to a dark irony. Veolia Water sponsors the ‘Naturally Dry’ Garden at Chelsea, a garden inspired by […]
Why I’m Supporting a Boycott of the Bahrain Grand Prix
’ve loved Grand Prix racing ever since I can remember. For me, theres nothing like it. Yes, it has occasionally been a predicatable procession of cars, but the on-track battles can be epic. Senna Vs Prost. Mansell Vs Senna Vs Prost. Hill Vs Schumacher. Schumacher Vs Villeneuve. Alonso Vs Räikkönen. Hamilton Vs Massa. Button Vs Vettel Vs […]
Total Cost of Ownership
I’ve recently been consulting on a large web based research project. Whilst I can’t go into too much detail about who my client was, I can say that it was one of the most varied consultations I’ve undertaken for a while. Looking back on my experience got me thinking about the long term Total Cost […]
PlayStation Network intrusion is not a game
This article was first published on April 28, 2011, at The Online Marketing Mix. We are used to governments and banks leaking data on a fairly regular basis, but rarely has a consumer electronics giant ever been so exposed as Sony is right now to customer vehemence and legal action. Sony discovered an intrusion on […]
Three Little Words: Content Management Systems
This article was first published on April 4, 2011 at The Online Marketing Mix Because different people might mean different things when using those three little words ‘Content Management System’, I’m going to begin this article by stating my understanding of what a Content Management System (or ‘CMS’) is. In essence, and in the context […]
Apple iPad Business Apps
As the launch of iPad 2 is barely a day away I thought it would be neat to remind myself of my thoughts about the first generation of iPad. Back in January 2010 I thought that:- Businesses tend to tool people up with laptops and send them out into the field. The iPad – with […]