by Paul Bevan | Sep 27, 2018 | Feature, Knowledge Bank
The Background It was back in 2011 that Marc Andreessen said, “…software is eating the world.” His view was that, in 2011, “we were in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift, in which software companies were poised to take over large...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Sep 24, 2018 | Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
Quite a lot will now go down to the regulator’s appetite So … May 25th came and went, quickly followed by the football world cup and a heatwave which wrecked most of Europe and many other parts of the world … Around the GDPR, bureaucracy claimed its birth rights...
by David Norfolk | Sep 18, 2018 | CIO WaterCooler, Feature, Knowledge Bank
I’m a huge believer in DevOps – or, rather, Biz-Dev-Ops – and the removal of silos between Business, Development and Operations. This is fundamental, I think, to the operation of a constantly-evolving mutable business – which needs an efficient, very timely, feedback...
by Jean-Christophe Gaillard | Sep 10, 2018 | CISO WaterCooler, Collaboration, Feature, Information Security, Role of the CIO
Constant firefighting downgrades the role and the CISO must fight to avoid its gravitational pull With regards to many other C-level roles, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) position is a fairly recent creation for many organisations. Although it started...
by David Norfolk | Sep 10, 2018 | CIO WaterCooler, Feature, Knowledge Bank
I’m pretty cynical about Project Management tools. I can remember assessing one of the very first ones for my bank – as far as I could see, it was designed to allow people (“if they wanted to”) to disguise a badly managed and failing project by producing plausible and...
