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People in IT are crying out for guidance, leadership and direction. They are ready and willing to give their best – but unsure what to do, where to go, or whom to follow. As IT emerges out of the confusion…

Fifteen years ago many users complained about their internal Electronic Data Processing departments, who never seemed to understand business requirements, spent too much money and lived in an insular world of their own, surrounded by secrecy, techies and IBM.

To turn a compelling vision into effective reality takes skills. Strong and leadership, true openness and powerful values. Corporate IS departments and IT companies are well positioned to take the lead in this area. Out of necessity they have to…

IS departments face enough challenges with service provision as it is, without the additional burden of open disagreement. All it takes is for one person to criticise a strategic decision, or another to confide in a business colleague that the…

What real financial benefits have been delivered by the “initiatives” so prevalent in business today? From an IT perspective, under ever increasing pressure to justify our spending and very existence, where are the savings, improvements and competitive advantage resulting from…

Deborah Graham, 33, a Computer systems manager from Dudley, committed suicide after struggling in private to cope with her job. What a tragedy for someone so young to be consumed by such stress, pressures and worries. These are not unique…

Information overload. Everyone suffers from it, it causes great stress, and it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more information there is out there, the more we strive to know. We receive a twenty-page report and we want more detail next…

A recent Computer Weekly/Banner study showed that over 30% of IT directors feel  that stress affects their ability to cope with their job. After covering this in my CW column, I was inundated with e-mails and letters from people suggesting…

Within the world of IT, the negs are having a field day. We all know who the negs they are the people who love to find something, anything, wrong with an idea. They will always point out (with great glee)…

As we rush around from one task to the next, juggling problems as we go, and all the time trying to balance our lives between work, family and life, it is easy to forget. Or, to be more accurate, difficult…