BYOD is not the solution

BYOD is not the right answer to bad corporate IT. It isn’t about the technology. It never was. The technology is just a tool. A tool for YOU to use to achieve something. If you don’t have the right tools, then the problem is NOT the tools, it the process that gave you the poor…

Consumerization and what IT departments still don’t understand

The consumerization discussion in companies always amazes me. You know, the ‘bring your own device’, ‘iPad’, ’email on Android’ thing … It is a huge change in the workplace, but so many companies still don’t understand real drivers behind this. There is a reason that Jobs and Apple did not allow corporate IT departments to…

As PC manufacturers suffer in 2011, Apple stormed ahead. Lesson: DESIGN MATTERS

2011 was the second worst year for PC sales in the US. HP fell 5% Dell fell 8% Acer fell 14% Toshiba fell 2% Q4 figures for 2011 being particularly bad for HP as the botched sale or not of its PC division resulted in a loss of customers confidence and a corresponding fall in…

The hardest job in the world … Windows phone product manager

If you are a Windows mobile/phone/whatever 7 or 8 Product Manager, life cannot be easy. – Android announced 3.7m activations over the Christmas weekend of 24th and 25th December 2011 – Apple are estimated to have activated 4.58m iOS devices on Christmas Day alone … and Windows Phone 7 … no data yet, but it…