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Free newsletterJoin more than 3,000 IT professionals who receive the free Minimal IT Newsletter every week. Enter your email below to subscribe. Recent newslettersThe XML processing language XSLT is a
powerful and flexible solution to many development needs.
Like every profession, IT is driven by
the passion and eccentricity of the people who work in it.
Fungibility is a critical concept for
managing long-term costs and risk in IT.
Here in the UK there is a constant
stream of scandal as sensitive data is lost by banks, the police,
the government, and pretty much everyone else. Rather than being a
failure of "procedures", I see this as inevitable because of
fundamental problems with the security of PCs and portable
media.
To successfully navigate the IT of
mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations you need to quickly
establish high-level visibility, direction and control across the
new structure. Here's how.
No IT objective, such as cost
reduction, can be managed in isolation. You need to adopt methods
that let you manage a basket of competing objectives.
To manage technology effectively, you
need methods that let you manage at different levels of detail at
different times and across different subjects.
The latest formats make it much easier
to export data and reports to Excel, even if you do not use
Microsoft technology and do not have the latest versions of
Microsoft Office.
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