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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.
Recent Posts
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An IT alignment reality check
- Managing Editor 15 Jul 2026 -
Dukes of hazard
- Managing Editor 07 Jul 2026 -
EVs: The software integration challenge
- Managing Editor 17 Jun 2026
People in IT are unlikely ever to say they are misaligned with business. For decades IT advisory services have presented the business savvy IT chief as a cornerstone and a facilitator, to enable ...
“The quiet hum of the flight was suddenly pierced by panicked screams, a few passengers jumped out of their seats, and second later, an explosion created a ball of fire on a window seat tray ...
While there appears to be an ongoing political debate over whether we do or don’t ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, a big concern putting people off electrical vehicle (EV) ...
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Why Big Tech should not play at politics
- Managing Editor 11 Jun 2026 -
Getting by with a little help from AI
- Managing Editor 04 Jun 2026 -
Return of the Luddites
- Managing Editor 07 May 2026 -
Tech sovereignty in a "special relationship"
- Managing Editor 29 Apr 2026 -
A modern approach to technical debt reduction
- Managing Editor 16 Apr 2026 -
IT pros: the path ahead in career development
- Managing Editor 08 Apr 2026 -
Things to consider about Oracle's Agentic Fusion
- Managing Editor 25 Mar 2026
Prior to the start of the second Donald Trump presidency, former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, stepped down as Meta’s president of global affairs. During his seven years tenure at the social ...
A couple of weeks ago OpenAI announced that a prominent open problem central to combinatorial geometry, has been solved autonomously by AI. The planar unit distance problem, first posed by Paul ...
Are we 21st century Luddites? As we progress to a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advances lead to major changes in working practices, we can and should draw analogies ...
How much investment does the UK need in tech to be in a position where it can limit the impact of geopolitical turmoil and the goings on in the White House? With King Charles having to navigate the ...
While it may have been conceived as an elegant way to host microservices, containerisation is seeping into mainstream enterprise IT. When asked about their IT strategy, IT leaders will often say ...
If change is the only constant, IT is a sector that has thrived by driving forward change. IT professionals need to adapt, otherwise they get left behind. Employment stability is very volatile, ...
Beyond the Oracle Fusion Agentic Applications announcement that coincided with the Oracle AI Tour London event, there is the inevitable question of what it actually does. By default, it seems the ...
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A simple online login is key to digital government success
- Managing Editor 19 Mar 2026 -
They need us to buy their debt-fuelled AI dream
- Managing Editor 05 Mar 2026 -
The Q in AI
- Managing Editor 26 Feb 2026 -
A questionable partnership
- Managing Editor 18 Feb 2026 -
Legacy IT? No problem
- Managing Editor 11 Feb 2026
While it’s not perfect, there’s one thing that can be said of Microsoft Azure Active Directory. It basically does what it’s supposed to, providing a relatively straightforward login for enterprise ...
So it seems Nvidia boss, Jensen Huang is telling financial analysts that datacentre spending will increase 10-fold to 4 trillion within four years. And, those who heard his keynote at the GTC event ...
What can we learn from the Microsoft AI Tour that was held at London’s ExCel on February 24th? It would seem - at least from the queues - that thousands of people were waiting to get in to hear the ...
During numerous presentations given by IT industry executives, amongst the most over-used phrase is “partnership” and specifically, the supposedly “strategic partnership” they have with key ...
Maybe it’s time to press the pause button on artificial intelligence (AI). While the industry is dead set on promoting the benefits of multi-agent AI systems, the CIOs in many organisations ...