It went live yesterday. We have a new website! www.informpros.com has had a makeover, and we are feeling good. Its always good to get a project finished and this is no exception. Thanks to the old site for its good years of...
A topic that is gaining lots of interest of late is the financial treatment of IT investments. Sound boring, well maybe, but if you need to find funds from year to year, or one off for a crucial project then...
What ever happened to e- ? You remember don’t you? The time when everything that had some technology element to it was referred to as e-something…. e-enabled, e-business, e-reader, e-marketing. How time moves on. We rarely see this now. Not only the...
One of the biggest and most pressing issues in the financial and trading industry today is meeting all the challenges connected to high frequency trading or HFT. HFT is an ultra-fast, computerised segment of finance that is now accounting for...
Now I am not a betting man and I am not defending Tom Waterhouse, but I was very interested to watch the public backlash against bookmaker Tom Waterhouse’s recent campaign to introduce his gambling services to TV sport. When his...
This is a question that frequently raised its head during my tenure as a CIO. Almost as frequently as: does CIO stand for ‘Career is Over?’ There are certainly examples in which CIOs have risen to the rank of CEO. Generally...
The Reflective CIO - So you still want to be a CIO? Welcome back! I figured it was about time to follow up on my original blog. Last time I discussed six time-tested observations I have made over fifteen years as...
“You can’t always get what you want.” The famous words from the Rolling Stones ring true when organisations acquire packaged solutions “off the shelf”. Here is an analysis of what happens when an organisation has a legacy system it wants to...
All organisations are looking for ways to improve their performance. Private sector firms are striving to beat the competition by providing more value to the customer at the lowest possible cost. Government departments and not-for-profit organisations are under pressure to...