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Within our blog we’ll be keeping you updated with all our latest news, industry and regional articles. For more information please click on the blog headline to read the full article.

Vote in our quick poll on IT Portfolio Planning

Categories: IT Portfolio Management, Leadership, News | Date: 5th January 2011

How often does your organisation engage in formal review and planning of strategic IT priorities? Have your say in our New Year’s Poll.  As we start 2011 and many approach the end of the financial year, it’s crucial to make sure that IT projects and programmes are suitably prioritised. But like changing course in an ...

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Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)

Categories: Leadership, News | Date: 13th December 2010

SFIA is a competency framework used as a basis for IT talent management in technology-led organisations.  SFIA was developed to address the lack of  structure for accrediting professional development for rising IT talent in the UK and internationally. We attended the 10th SFIA Foundation Conference in London on 1st December to find out how SFIA ...

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What can Chilean Miners teach us about innovation and leadership?

Categories: Human Factors, Innovation, Leadership | Date: 14th October 2010

We have rationed our news intake recently to avoid over-exposure to a media frenzy of doom and gloom about our cut-back economy. And then we allowed ourselves to follow the incredible story of the Chilean Miners.
If ever there is a lesson in optimism, leadership, ingenuity and engagement, this is surely it, right there with Apollo ...

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Knowledge worker productivity – important role for IT

Categories: Innovation, Knowledge Work, News | Date: 22nd September 2010

Findings from the workshop on 17th Sept: IT has an important role to play in improving knowledge worker productivity. Many people are spending 20+ hours a week using Microsoft Office and another 10-20 hours using email. Often they have had little or no training and have learnt by trial an error. In most cases there ...

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Where should we focus our energies to drive benefits from IT?

Categories: IT Benefits Management, Knowledge Work | Date: 9th September 2010

I’ve just been analysing the findings from our survey of managers and knowledge workers. The 42 respondents provided a broad perspective from UK, Germany and the Carribean (MBA students – typically in middle and senior management positions).
Participants in our survey use Microsoft Office for around 20 hours a week and email for another 10-20 hours. They ...

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When was the last time you truly and completely switched off?

Categories: Human Factors, Knowledge Work | Date: 7th September 2010

We’re just back from holidays where we were completely cut-off from technology, not even a mobile phone signal and definitely no WiFi! But guess what, we actually quite enjoyed being ‘dis-connected’! Technology can be a double-edged sword. Incredibly enticing and packed full of endless possibilities and curiosities – but also full of potential distractions. Neuro-scientists ...

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Join the Lead & Transform Linked-In Group

Categories: News | Date: 20th August 2010

Join us…to share learning and top tips for getting the very best results from IT investments in today’s lightning-fast, digital age. We’re looking at how to get the people, process, leadership and technology bits right to massively improve the way that organisations do business, when enabled by IT. The Lead and Transform group is a ...

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Improving the productivity of knowledge work – 17 September 2010, Durham Business School

Categories: IT Benefits Management, Knowledge Work, News | Date: 20th July 2010

Peter Drucker said, “the unique contribution of management in the 20th century was the 50 fold improvement in the productivity of manual workers… …the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is to similarly increase the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers“.
In our recent study, exploitation of existing systems and information ...

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Is a CIO’s role purely about people skills?

Categories: CIO, Leadership | Date: 16th July 2010

The answer is pretty much ‘yes’ according to Carphone Warehouse’s CIO, Simon Post in a recent Computer Weekly interview. “My role is purely around people leadership. Although I am technically competent, I don’t use [my IT skills] very much. My remit has changed more in terms of expansion into non-IT areas than it has within ...

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IT Attention Deficit Report Published

Categories: IT Benefits Management, IT Portfolio Management, Leadership, News | Date: 9th June 2010
IT Attention Deficit Report Published

We are pleased to release our latest research findings. In a survey of over 200 senior IT leaders in North East England, we asked what were the factors that get in the way of realising maximum benefits from IT investment.
The results were fascinating. To receive a free download of the summary report, .

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