Nov 11, 2014
Kathy Gibson reports from AfricaCom in Cape Town – The next wave of connectivity – where devices are connected into an intelligent network – offers huge value potential, but much of this potential is being left on the table. Cisco’s Ian Kennedy, points out that,...
Nov 4, 2014
While the small business sector is a rapidly growing sector in SA, unfortunately very few start-ups make it beyond their first year – and of those that do, only 50% survive past year three, says Darlene Menzies, CEO of SA developed business software product...
Sep 22, 2014
The outlook for the project management office (PMO) may be considered, by some, to be bleak. According to the Association for Project Management, 50% of PMOs close within three years, with Gartner quoting just over the same percentage for the correlated PMO...
Jul 9, 2014
As a commonly used IT buzzword, MTBF, which stands for “mean time between failure”, is commonly used across many industries. Unfortunately though, it has become widely abused in some. The white paper, Mean Time Between Failure: Explanation and Standards, published by...
Jul 8, 2014
A number of high-profile government IT projects have ended in failure in recent years, says Gartner research director Darryl Carlton. Take the British Child Support Agency for example, which ranks as one of the worst public administration scandals of all time. Not...
