Techworld "From the corner office"

Seas of opportunity

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:19:00 GMT

As the world economy limps inexorably towards recession, it is with certain inevitably that corporate eyes turn towards cost savings. Invariably this will mean the call to IT to look at reducing "support overheads" by reducing helpdesk heads or infrastructure expenditure.

Preaching to the converted

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:49:00 GMT

When I started my career in IT more moons ago than I care to remember I worked in a steel fabrication yard many miles from my parents' house.

To fly or not to fly

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:13:00 GMT

I'm just back from a week in India visiting my dev team. Before I went over, I had the usual worries over flying such a long way. I rightly had concerns with the environmental impact of flying, plus the personal issue of sitting on a flight for 10 hours each way. What was the point of the trip; was I going to get enough benefit for the environmental, personal and financial costs involved.