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The business case for Software as a Service (SaaS) is very clear and compelling

August 9, 2010

Many organisations are struggling to keep pace with the spiralling cost if IT systems and software applications as they are deployed today.The availability of capital, the need to conserve cash and generate efficiencies from operations has placed new pressures on the IT function to deliver increases in price performance. SaaS is gaining in popularity and seen by many as the only logic ways of paying for supporting technology - as the pace of technology change and advancement increases.

Why management processes and techniques remain in the Dark Ages...?

July 7, 2010

Managing organisations has remained in the Dark Ages. The Industrial Age of the 19th Century and has not changed since the days of Adam Smith's divisions of labour and Henry Ford's economies of scale.Not much has changed in the last 80-90 years and now cracks are appearing as the Information Age is placing new demands on businesses and management against a background of volatile markets and the increasing pace of globalisation.

UK Government tightening grip of ICT expenditure placing pressure on vendors

July 6, 2010

The Cabinet Office supported by the National Audit Office (NAO) and Public Accounts committee is starting to put the screw on ICT and outsourcing vendors.

Why Standard Costing and ERP systems may be killing your business?

March 22, 2010

Standard Costing was designed to support mass production manufacturing in the 1920's and 30's on the basis that all costs need to be tracked and measured in relation to overheads mostly labor for making a product. ERP systems were developed to track these transactions and by doing so encourage organizations to become wasteful and efficient, focusing more on the needs of supporting ERP than running the business to produce cash and EBITDA.

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