Thinking(s)
We think (perhaps too much) about Organisations, the Functions they perform, the Information needed to execute those functions, and the Technologies used to implement them. We capture some of our thoughts in writing to share them, please choose a particular category from the menu on the left!
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Monday, 16 May 2011 16:21
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Steve Burrows
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Information
For years, decades, business owners have bemoaned the ever-increasing burden of Health & Safety legislation, not necessarily because of the need for workplace safety, but for the bureaucratic mechanisms involved, the supervision / enforcement processes, legal considerations, employee / union relations and so on.
Creeping up on the outside, un-heeded by many directors and businesses, the Data Protection legislation has been getting teeth. In April 2010 the new Information Commissioner secured power to award fines of up to £500,000 for Data Protection breaches. At the time many, perhaps most of us, ignored this development thinking that it would only be for massively extreme cases, such large fines would not be awarded in real life.
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Monday, 20 December 2010 16:54
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Steve Burrows
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Information
Why companies should have a Chief Information Officer.
In business there are three currencies; talent, finance and information. How do I come to that? It’s pretty simple, consider the way we work and what we value. The Finance element is obvious, most businesses have a Finance Director or CFO (Chief Finance Officer) whose responsibility encompasses not only accounting, but the management and exploitation of financial resources, whether they are cash, creditors, debtors, leveragable assets, contracts, negotiable documents etc.
As businesses we regularly publish information. This website gives information about our services and snippets of news about our business etc. The information we publish to the public is intended for the public and open to public scrutiny, so most responsible businesses try to publish honest, accurate information. If the information we ought to publish will cast us in a less than flattering light then we usually avoid publishing it, remaining silent being preferable to self-incrimination or deception.
Information Technology - what does it do? What do people who work in IT do, and what do they think they do?
I'm a Chartered Information Technology Professional. I've been working with computers for three decades. I know what I do, but I increasingly have the perception that many in IT, perhaps even the IT industry as a whole, have lost their way.