The latest data from the Office of National Statistics shows that UK house prices have increased just 0.6% in the past year – no doubt a reflection about the uncertainty created by Brexit, a slowdown in the buy to let…
For charity and not-for-profit organisations raising funds is a well-documented challenge but many of these organisations also struggle to keep their IT costs and administration time under control. Often these organisations have multiple, widely dispersed local offices and centres. Every…
The news this week that hundreds of medical students at one of Scotland’s top universities will be forced to resit exams after a cheating scandal has sent shockwaves through the educational world. Around 270 final year students at the University…
Once upon a time, mobile phones did - unsurprisingly - what they said on the tin. They were tools used for calling people. Then along came Palm, Nokia, and Blackberry who added email, cameras, apps, Internet access and the smartphone was born, with the…
It is one of the best selling business books of all time with over eight million copies shifted and the staple diet of any business school student in late 1980s early 90s. In Search of Excellence was first published in…
For many IT administrators the feeling of being shackled to the desktop will be familiar involving an endless round of responding to helpdesk tickets raised by users, running security patches and rolling out upgrades. But a new desktop era is…
Think you know about endpoints? Most IT administrators think they do and many have dismissed them but the world has changed and the latest endpoint hardware and software endpoints are more than fit for purpose. Here are five endpoint myths…
We live in times characterised by the ‘new normal’. Obviously there’s Brexit. Many pundits and politicians really didn’t see that coming and the fallout of leaving the EU has only just begun as the UK navigates its exit. But forget…
Trying to manage IT today, I’m reminded of the famous US Navy SEAL saying “the only easy day was yesterday.” Simply put, it means tomorrow will be harder. Heads of IT departments might nod sagely at this. They have to…
