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Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.

Recent Posts

  • Making America great, but at what cost?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 09 Apr 2025

    • It is highly unlikely any country facing US tariffs will want to curb the ability of their citizens and businesses to buy software and IT services from US firms. Yet the current tariffs affecting ...

  • Avoiding AI lock-in

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 01 Apr 2025

    • One of the big problems with deploying a software as a service (SaaS) product across an entire organisation is that once it is widely used, swapping it out becomes an extremely costly exercise. In ...

  • An agentic AI reality check

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Mar 2025

    • No one can deny the tech sector’s level of excitement when something new starts to gain traction. Rather like the car mechanic or builder who urges their customers to buy more expensive components ...

  • The importance of taking time to get IT right

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 17 Mar 2025

    • The dust has yet to settle on the 67-page auditor’s report looking into what went so badly wrong at Birmingham City Council with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) project to replace SAP with ...

  • Spotlight on an indulgent tech sector

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 27 Feb 2025

    • We often hear of senior tech industry execs drawing an analogy between the tech sector and automotive manufacturing. Basically, if car development followed the same rules as the tech sector, by now ...

  • Budget flexibility for on-prem AI

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Feb 2025

    • Consider an organisation that, understandably, wants to ensure its customer data and intellectual property is kept as safe as possible, assessing how to “do AI”. It is easy to assume everyone is ...

  • Should the UK spend hundreds of billions on AI?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Feb 2025

    • This week the European Union (EU) announced a €200bn InvestAI fund, to build out sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This follows on from the Trump administration’s $500bn Project ...

  • Why are we waiting?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 06 Feb 2025

    • Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ...

  • DeepSeek: Moving beyond muscle car AI

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Jan 2025

    • The largely held belief that Nasa spent millions developing a space pen that could write in zero gravity, while cosmonauts just used a pencil, is a myth. But there are plenty of examples in recent ...

  • A Galaxy of AI opportunities

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 24 Jan 2025

    • Looking back at the 1980s, one of the hot items that everyone seemed to want was the Filofax. This glorified leather diary was regarded as the must-have accessory for busy people, or those who ...