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Being Strategic With Business IT

Business planning is a well worn topic with the areas of Sales and Marketing, Inventory Management, Production and HR almost always included in most business plans.However, IT is often overlooked in a business strategy. Too many IT decisions still remain reactionary and are decided in isolation of an overarching plan of the entire business.Implementing specific solutions that are in line with a full business IT strategy ensures that there is coordination with the overall business strategy, and t...

Establishing the boring foundations

If you’ve ever built your own house you’ll certainly appreciate the importance of comprehensive, intelligent and well thought through planning.The foundations are never the most exciting part of any project but they are arguably the most important. It’s all the unglamorous work that’s done below ground that is not seen by many and largely unappreciated, that forms the basis and structure for the building above.So it is with any IT implementation project. It’s the work that is done upfr...

The IT Forest

Q: How does my business navigate through the bewildering array of technologies and solutions? Q: There are a lot of technologies out there. How do I know what is useful for me? Q: The pace of change is increasing. How do I stay up-to-date? Q: There are so many options to choose from. How do I know I’m choosing the right one? Q: At times it feels like I have to commit to a stream. Will my choices now limit my future options? Q: The range of costs is huge. How do I know what is good value? Today...