In our first article we took a look at how we arrived at the current situation, where supply chains are under extreme pressure. In Part 2 we’ll take a look at how IT organisations can build resilience into their supply chains to prepare for tough times ahead. There is an argument to be made that…
In this two part article, we take a look at why the IT supply chain is under threat. Then we give some guidance on what you can do to build more resilient supply chains. To say that the last two years have been disruptive across a wide swathe of industries would be like describing the…
From Elon Musk to Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it’s pretty safe to say that if Bitcoin hasn’t already hit the mainstream, it will very soon. The OG cryptocurrency has reached a level of popularity that even your grandparents are talking about it. And yet it is estimated that only 100…
Rate your businesses backup capability against our Backup Scorecard® A company-wide backup solution is like the plumbing in a hotel. When it’s working, no one pays any attention to it, it’s totally invisible. However, when it fails, it fails hard and the result is not pretty! The stress of receiving an alert about a data…
According to Statista.com, “Almost one quarter of all businesses have temporarily closed or paused trading due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United Kingdom as of April 2020.” As a result of this, many businesses have down-scaled offices, drastically accelerating the ‘work from home’ trend that had started to take root in more progressive…
Over a decade ago, when presenting his proposal for the ClubCard loyalty scheme to the directors of Tesco, Clive Humby coined the famous phrase ‘Data is the new oil’. His analogy quickly became a commonly accepted fact – data fuels the information economy exactly the same way that oil fuels the industrial economy. And yet,…
IT upgrades are an unavoidable fact of life for businesses. To stay up-to-date, many businesses often run on hardware upgrade cycles of three to five years. It’s never easy, or without risks, but it can be accomplished effectively and to a deadline with some good planning. With this in mind, here are the top five questions IT project managers should ask ahead of any IT transformation.
