Tim Holyoake

Business Value Practitioner at Software AG

Recent posts

IoT
The birth of the Internet
On August 30, 1969, the first building block of the Internet was born; a month later the first message was sent. Imagine if the only way you could connect your computer to the Internet was through a device made by a single manufacturer. Plus, this device limits you to connecting four computers with a maximum data transmission rate of 50Kbps. And this device cost…
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Business Transformation
How to Avoid a Supernova of IT Costs
A supernova of increasing IT costs threatens to collapse into a black hole of diminishing business value. Recently a CFO went into the office of a CTO I know and demanded an explanation for their continuing rise in IT costs. The CFO pointed at the chart on the CTO’s wall labelled “IT strategic plan.” It was littered with words like…
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News
Worried About the Ethics of AI?
Because artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days it gets all the press, with fears of it causing job losses or creating a maniac robot that takes over the world. But there is more to worry about out there; the ethics of all software usage should be front and center in our thinking. In April of this year the…
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