Governance - Where's the Value?

Addressing GDPR for business benefit rather than as a cost

Developing IT services for the business is increasingly a matter of managing contracts and SLAs (Service Level Agreements), rather than managing technology.

Boldon James and its Allianz story

A practical guide to Configuration Management, based on input from actual practitioners.

AXELOS appears to be doing some useful things

Doing more with less only really works in a mature organisation prepared to "spend to save".

The benefits of aiming at versioning everything often outweigh the hassles that the extra discipline entails.

You can produce an accurate CMDB (which implies there's a Configuration Management Service) and even save money doing it. But why isn't everyone doing this? I'd love someone to explain to me how to have a well-governed company without configuration manage

What is DevOps? Perhaps it's all about agile "just enough" governance of automation delivery.

IPv6 addressses the very real problem that IPv4 (current) IP addresses are running out - but there's no need to panic...

BPM/ODM (Business Process Management / Operational Decision Management) can be a useful aid to showing that you are in control of your processes