Blockchain – Part 1 – a Foundation of Distrust
Mutual Suspicion In his 1982 PhD thesis entitled “Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups” and subsequent essays including “Achieving Electronic Privacy” some ten years later, David Schaum discusses the need for information sharing, but also the need for privacy. Banks need to be able to verify banking transactions such as purchases;
Read MoreRobotic Process Automation is already here and it’s awesome
Oops! There’s a joke that goes: “I got drunk last night and sent a nude photo to everybody in my address book. It cost me a fortune in postage.” The joke here is not that the author sent a nude photo to everybody in his address book; because I’m certain we’ve all sent emails in
Read MoreBuilding the Mars Rover with your Kids
Wouldn’t Know Where to Start? Every year we hear about somebody else’s children doing incredibly exciting things with technology. It always seems to be something well beyond the capability and budget of the average parent and so we dismiss it as – “they’re lucky to have a parent who can do that.” But Cloud Technology
Read MoreA useful guide to Cloud Best Practice
With so many guides on best practice, available, a natural response would be not ANOTHER one. In response to this I have sought to keep this guide brief, pragmatic and relevant to everyone in the business. Understand what you want to achieve as a business (but keep it fluid): Establish clear targets & metrics aligned
Read MoreLet the Cloud be your Facilitator, not your Downfall
What does your Business Do? If you were to go to the CEO of the Aerospace company I worked for in my first job fresh out of University and asked him what his business did, he would probably say “We make buttons, switches and panels for aircraft.” If you were to ask one of the
Read MoreCloud Financial Management – Saving you time, money and effort
For many small and medium sized businesses, cloud financial planning and management remains an anathema. Some consider it a minefield and best avoided, while others may have fallen victim to overzealous organisational dreams of world domination with little thought to the financial management of this. If you consider accounting and financial management to be more
Read MoreThe dawn of the Quantum Age
Quantum Code from Home Last weekend, I wrote my first ever piece of quantum code and ran it on IBM Watson – one of the most powerful computers in the World. Why is this such a big deal? Two main reasons – first of all I never thought this would be possible in my lifetime
Read MoreDifficult is Done at Once, the Impossible takes a Little Longer
Do you ever look at your company’s IT and think that what you want to do is just not possible; too expensive, or something that only your competitors could realistically achieve? One Man’s Impossible is another Man’s Opportunity Sometimes service providers and IT enablers find it is so easy to get carried away with
Read MoreStanding on the Shoulders of Giants
The Paradigm Project In 1991 a team of technology trailblazers got together to build a revolutionary product. It was 16 years before the first Apple iPhone would be released and yet this device offered much of the functionality that the first iPhone would subsequently offer including touch screen, games, apps and telephony. These trailblazers were
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