With business goals and expectations changing at the drop of a hat, it’s extremely difficult for CIOs to know how many people they need, when they need more or fewer people, and in what roles. Some businesses are reducing costs, with the CIO having to…
A large UK Government Department is embarking on a programme to accelerate their delivery of new IT solutions utilising agile software engineering methods. During this time iCore were asked to look at some of their existing application support teams and see how we could help…
CIOs are feeling the pressure of the ‘digital era’ and the expectations it brings. In this new era, IT is squarely at the heart of business growth, and poor IT performance equals poor business performance. There’s no two ways about it. So, what should CIOs…
It used to be the case that IT was a dark art. The `IT Department` operated separately to other departments and only the IT guys understood technology. They provided the tools to help the business operate, but how they worked was a mystery, and if anything…
Following up from, and building, on last week’s ‘Thought of the Week’ about multi-modal working - a word that seems to be on most IT leaders’ minds currently is `transformation`. It’s being used so often that it’s in danger of being over-used, and in most…
Many organisations are thinking about `All things Agile`, and how it can benefit their business. The question that C-suite members are asking themselves is, “How do I move from my existing Waterfall project management method to Agile?” In other words, moving from a method that encompasses control and governance,…
Many organisations are pushing full steam ahead to modernise their business and ways of working. Digital technologies, embracing Agile working and DevOps models to enable greater speed and adaptability to business goals is becoming the norm and is showing no signs of slowing down. But, with speed and quality of…