by DavidSpratt | Feb 27, 2017 | Energy, ICT
Over Christmas 2015 I spent a lot of my beach time getting sun burnt and considering the threat of global warming to my kids and to their kids. I eventually decided that, to save the planet, I could start by measuring the energy consumption of every electrical device...
by DavidSpratt | Dec 13, 2016 | ICT
After a busy year trying to make sense of the changing ICT landscape I’m winding down for Christmas by attending as many customer and supplier events as possible. The prospect of free wine and food, stimulating conversations and standard speeches by sales managers...
by DavidSpratt | Aug 1, 2016 | ICT
We talk to dozens of small and large companies around the country to help them modernise and streamline their ICT needs. We frequently hear about an issue that’s important to managers everywhere: a supposed lack of control over the growth of these as-needed costs. In...
by DavidSpratt | Jul 12, 2016 | Case Studies, ICT
The year 2013 was tough for Zespri. The PSA virus was decimating its growers’ high value, gold kiwifruit crops across New Zealand. As well, a major initiative was underway to help growers replace existing cultivars with a more disease- tolerant variety, Sun Gold. The...
by DavidSpratt | Jun 30, 2016 | ICT
Complexity, cost, and increasing competitive inertia create big problems for business IT departments, as we saw in part one of this series. In today’s post, David Spratt addresses what to do about it. So where did we leave off, last post? Competitive advantage...
by DavidSpratt | Apr 11, 2016 | ICT
I had lunch with an old friend last week and he raised the issue of technical debt with me: the notion that complexity breeds complexity until a business’ IT systems are a burden rather than a benefit. The realisation came, like a bolt from the blue, that this was the...
