When it comes to managing creative IT professionals, the Oliver Twins can teach us all a thing or two. As pioneers of the UK computer games industry and founders of ‘Radiant Worlds’, a thriving British games development company, Philip and Andrew Oliver have three decades’ experience of working with and managing games programmers and otherRead more
Recent IT failures at British high street banks and telecoms companies have made big headlines because of the impact they have had on the companies’ fortunes and the public at large. From the messages that the companies give to the media, you might think that such failures are inevitable because of the complexity of theRead more
Why do some bankers get paid so much more than others with similar levels of expertise in other professions, e.g.: engineering, information technology, journalism? There are two main answers: technology and technology. listen to ‘Alistair Milne blog’ on Audioboo // Asset management and investment banking (unlike, for example, the retailing industries (books, CDs, clothing) or hotels, travel and tourismRead more
This week I have been preparing for a new course I have to teach – research of course goes out of the window at this point! I’ve been doing this on a regular basis since, I don’t know when, but many years. You would think I might just take this in my stride and thatRead more
Late last month, Gartner announced that Big Data had met the trough of disillusionment. This is the third phase in Gartner’s hype cycle and indicates the moment when everyone pauses for breath and starts to look rather more critically at what Big Data technologies are actually delivering to their business. InformationWeek report that cloud computingRead more