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Author: Robert Hillard

Posted onJune 24, 2013August 28, 2021Original post

Challenging times for the ICT industry

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Last month I wrote about the collection of personal information by business and government and compared the loss of privacy to George Orwell’s predictions for…

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Posted onMay 26, 2013August 28, 2021Original post

Living as far from 1984 as Orwell

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Over the last month I’ve been talking a lot about personally controlled records and the ownership of your own information.  For more background, see last…

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Posted onApril 25, 2013August 28, 2021Original post

You should own your own data

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In virtually every country there is a debate around privacy, driven most recently by the rise of Big Data, social networks and technology more generally. …

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Posted onMarch 24, 2013September 28, 2020Original post

Teleworking requires good information sharing

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Teleworking has been in the press recently after Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer, banned the practice arguing that innovation and productivity require Yahoo! Employees to be…

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Posted onFebruary 23, 2013September 28, 2020Original post

For social networks, volume is the enemy of value

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In this blog I often talk of the value of information. Information is a valuable asset and companies increasingly place great store in identifying new…

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Posted onJanuary 19, 2013September 28, 2020Original post

Is there a silver bullet in a volatile world?

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There is little doubt that the business environment is changing faster than at any other time in history.  The recent book from Peter Evans-Greenwood, The…

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Posted onDecember 18, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Reclaim email as a business tool

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As many of us prepare to go on leave over the Christmas/New Year period we’re cleaning-up our email and perhaps grumbling about the avalanche of…

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Posted onNovember 25, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

A prediction for the mobile era

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Since the dawn of the personal computer, the hardware industry has relied on a cycle of obsolesce of just a few years.  Working with their…

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Posted onOctober 26, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Can enterprise solutions be built from individual projects?

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Imagine an electronics company planning a new tablet or phone and building the business case based on pre-committed orders.  Similarly, imagine a utility trying to…

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Posted onSeptember 21, 2012September 28, 2020Original post

Digital disruption – short fuse, big bang?

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Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with a range of my Deloitte colleagues on a report into the “digital disruption”…

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