The particular types of technology mentioned in this card will be cyclical. Twenty years ago there would have been web browsers and data warehouses. Today you'll see AI and Machine Learning, and possibly distributed ledger technologies. In a year or two the fashions will change. Some of these technologies are ground-breaking. Some of them aren't. … Continue reading CIO Priorities 10: Exploring new stuff
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There's a common misconception that the world of technology is one that is spent on the cutting edge. You only need to look at most organisations' standard PCs to realise how far from reality that can be. For most technology teams, the lion's share of time is taken up providing what's already there. The support … Continue reading CIO Priorities 9: time for innovation
We are frequently hearing that there is a skills gap in the UK for the world of tech. The last few years have also seen a big push from the UK Government to develop apprenticeship schemes in businesses to provide vocational routes of education for the young. In that light, it's not surprising that some … Continue reading CIO Priorities 8: Apprenticeships
Having a diverse workforce is ethically and morally the right thing to do. Morals and ethics and business, however, can sadly be uncomfortable bedfellows. Having a diverse workforce is economically the right thing to do, though, because more diverse teams solve problems more effectively. Check out Scott Page's The Difference for a more detailed examination of … Continue reading CIO Priorities 7: Diversity
CIO Priority 6: Move to Infrastructure as a Service One of my proudest moments as a technology leader was when, about 8 years ago, I closed down one of the server rooms at my organisation. We had shifted out from machines being tended in our London offices, to services delivered from The Cloud. That that … Continue reading CIO Priorities 6: IaaS
CIO Priority 5: Move to Platform as a Service In my mind PaaS is the future of software development. From the reality of technology infrastructure today (servers, disks, disk space quotas and so on even if all virtualized in the world of IaaS) to a world that is server-less, where coffee can Ryan and run … Continue reading CIO Priorities 5: PaaS
CIO Priority 4: Move to Software as a Service. Software as a Service, where business software is provided over the public internet rather than from servers that sit in a private data centre somewhere has actually been around for quite a long time now. The first big product, the CRM system SalesForce started to get … Continue reading CIO Priorities 4: SaaS
CIO Priority 3: Creating platforms and services that can scale to meet internet-scale demand. The Internet is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the bottom of your inbox, but that's just peanuts to the Internet.* In comparison to … Continue reading CIO Priorities 3: Internet Scale
CIO Priority 2: Digitization of our business's products and services. The digitization (or digitalization) agenda continues to be high on the agenda for many CIOs, over two decades since "digital" became a thing that businesses needed to worry about. Quite what it means in any particular context can be broad and varied. To illustrate the … Continue reading CIO Priorities 2: Digitization
I've recently launched Stamp London's first physical product - a set of playing cards called CIO Priorities. You can find out more about them here, and order a set for yourself here (or simply download the PDF and print them out). Over the next few weeks I'm going to run through each of the cards … Continue reading CIO Priorities 1: Industry context
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