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Pete Jakob IT discussions in business media always seem to cover the same topics: mid-tier businesses and tech; IT investment (too much? too little?); data storage (and the environment); information security; and whether good tech people can be good managers. more...
Pete Jakob IBM Software Group Marketing Manager (UK, Ireland & South Africa)

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Tags: Strategy, Collaboration, Communication
No business is an island
Knowledge may be power, but for many organisations, this means hiding the secrets of its innermost workings from colleagues as well as competitors. This is not to say that we should all be throwing open our doors – that’s just transparency gone mad.... more...

Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneur, Communication, Strategy
The rise of the answering machines
Does anybody like calling a helpline? Probably not, but businesses still need them. After all, if customers are going to spend their money on a product or service, they want a line of communication with the companies providing them. But many... more...

Tags: Entrepreneur, Know-how, Communication, Innovation
1,000,000 users can’t be wrong – can they?
Here’s a challenge: how do you collect the sum of all human knowledge? And keep it accurate? And make sure that everyone can consult it in a simple and accessible way? If you’re an ancient Greek, Roman or Spanish thinker (Aristotle, Pliny the Elder,... more...

Tags: Security, Risk Compliance Governance (GRC), Data management, Communication, Growth
The email that roared
As small and medium businesses grow, they uncover a misnomer about their computer systems – file sharing does not always actually mean sharing. Instead, storage capacity can all too easily become clogged up with the same material being stored many... more...

Tags: Bottom Line, Innovation, Communication
Back to school
There’s something strangely comforting about a blackboard. The endless chalk dust, the hours spent staring at them in a classroom, even nails being scraped across them can evoke fond memories of our childhood. But, like pretty much everything else,... more...

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I run a small manufacturing business with 500 employees. Should I be worried about GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) issues? And if so, how can my IT help?

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