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Modelling the business and prioritising IT tasks

It tends to be the nature of the IT industry to load staff with lots of work, all of which needs to be completed in a hurry.

When it comes to scheduling our work, we could all come up with differing priorities for new tasks depending on our current workload, or how we perceive a task’s relevance.

So if a problem or failure occurs, how can we ensure that it is given the correct priority from an enterprise perspective? If we leave it to the individual to decide…

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Added by Paul Wallis on August 19, 2010 at 23:00 — No Comments

Going on about tech - why IT is its own worst enemy

Most businesses today rely on information technology and flows of data to perform. So why do many people in IT feel that the IT function does not get the respect it deserves?

After all, where would the world be without IT? Trillions of currency in the form of data flow around the banking industry’s IT networks every year. In manufacturing, IT systems monitor and control the flows of highly dangerous substances through huge…

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Added by Paul Wallis on August 19, 2010 at 16:30 — No Comments