Making IT Happen

I haven't done any entries for a while as my job has changed and I have been waiting for the dust to settle. I'm now Corporate Development Director at Telereal, responsible for growing our services business and account managing BT, who are our largest customer (accounting for more than 90%+ of our turnover).

I'm still responsible for IT on our Executive Committee, but now have in place a Head of IS. I've agreed with the team at Computer Weekly to carry on the blog, as I'm in a fairly unusual position of being able to look across IT and the rest of the business from two different viewpoints.

Already I'm...changing. I've now got my own marketing projects that have IT components to them, and so, like marketing teams the world over, I want stuff done yesterday...

Went to an excellent update meeting this morning run by Cordless Group - This covered the overlap between technology, work and people. Neil Salton their (deep breath) Senior Technology Visioning Consultant gave an excellent talk based on his experiences of attending some of the big Euro tech shows like Cebit.

There is an incredible array of new stuff out there. I tapped notes into my Blackberry and at the end had come up with: "Team communications, ms ocs, e.g. web conf group instant messaging, better phones eg wifi, share point, public instant messaging , virtual Margaret, 3d, display technology, multi screen, web cams, blu ray, oled, 3d, blu casting, styles of collaboration, better use of tech, short throw projectors, ultra mobile pc, data input, tablets, asus ultra mobile, giraffe pc, independent docking stations, face recognition, printing eg printstick, run own reprographics inc binding and stapling, rfid, active rfid tags, changing networks, use of mobile data, iphone corporate, smartphone interfaces symbian interface, google, iphone, windows mobile, femtocell at home"

A few priorities for my company: multiple screens, desktop video conferencing, Microsoft OCS, corporate iphone. (No great corporate benefits for the iPhone but I may apply Burstows CIO law - that user satisfaction rises at the square of the rate of distribution of shiny new trinkets).