This Holiday Improve Your Life by Ditching the Technology
Redress the life/work balance It’s almost time to hang up your Christmas stockings for Santa or to just take some time off during this holiday period to redress the balance…
Are you Prepared to Accelerate Digital Transformation: IT Service Mangement
Digital Transformation & IT Service Management I was pleased to have been asked to contribute by BMC, along with 14 Top Thinkers to this Guide (at the bottom of this…
Fotojet: a beautiful web design solution for non graphic designers
Anyone can now be a graphic designer with Fotojet I am pretty much a novice when it comes to photo editing or creating cool designs, I have tried using Adobe…
4 Lessons in Backup: Oh **** My Blog has Just Gone Off Line!!
So What Happened? Hopefully, when you started your blog you decided to implement a backup solution. I thought I would share my learnings from seeing my blog (livingthetech.com) go offline…
Why Everyone Should Try Blogging at Least Once in Their Lives?
Time to Create My Own Blogging Content Well, I thought I would give blogging a go by actually creating my own site, instead of producing content for others I wanted…
Kanban: Adopting and Adapting Agile for IT Teams and Beyond
Kanban & Digital Operations Before I joined Spark Ventures (the R&D group of New Zealand’s largest Telco, Spark NZ) I had always been frustrated with the planning (or lack thereof)…
The old-school CIO is dead: 4 Key challenges for the CIO 3.0
CIO 3.0: Breaking the Status Quo In this digital era, it is critical, not only for IT but for an organisation, that their CIO is at the forefront of digital…
Agile: How to Successfully Manage Multiple Delivery Teams
Adopt and Adapting Agile I aim to use 2 examples that demonstrate how you can deliver “projects” (both Software and more complex work) for customers (in this case Product Managers)…
How I got my site ranked on the first page of Google in 24 hours
Ranked on the first page of Google I was really struggling with getting my articles to be ranked on the first page of Google, which I hoped would ultimately lead…
How to further optimise blog performance and SEO improvements
How to further optimise blog performance and SEO improvements I have slacked off a bit this month, producing nowhere near the amount of content (only 4 posts) compared with 14…
IT Service Management (ITSM): Top 100 Influencers and Brands
Top 100 IT Service Management (ITSM) Influencers Onalytica a developer of social network analysis and influencer relationship management software, named Pete Yates as a Top 100 IT Service Management (ITSM)…
Spark Ventures: Why we chose Amazon Web Services? [Slideshare]
Why we chose Amazon Web Services? These are the slides (click on picture below) I presented at an EnterpriseIT and Amazon Web Services Event in Wellington, New Zealand on why…