IT Journal - IT government and management
As part of the Sogeti Group, VINT contributes to the Sogeti’s bi-annual magazine for senior IT executives. IT Journal draws on VINT analysis and research and combines with summaries of other Analyst reports, interviews with cutting-edge thinkers in a variety of complementary fields, in-depth articles exploring highly topical issues, and book reviews.
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The Future of Work
Winter 2008-09
Is there any future in work? How will it be organized and how will companies, their partners and employees interrelate tomorrow? What will the technological, economic and financial environment look like in the coming years? In such troubled times, these are burning issues. Companies’ survival in the next decade will depend entirely on the outcome of today’s decisions.
Without looking into a crystal ball, a few existing avenues can be explored, providing thinking matter for the basis of work in the future. Cisco, Google, Citymail and many others uphold the five principles that are reconstructing the working world: flexibility, adaptability, pro-activity, innovation and outsourcing. It’s now up to the enterprise to understand, assimilate and translate them into action. Enterprises, administrations, trade unions and employees will have to find new methods of communication that suit the new economy, in line with both individual and general interests ― a wide agenda
Previous editions
Breaking the Rules
Summer 2008
Innovation is a vital source of energy and driving force for any company. Marketing objectives pressure the company to proclaim every new product and service ‘innovative’, and consumers and users have to make sense of it all. However, it is patently obvious that some 40% of the products we use every day were created less than 20 years ago. For once the analysts agree: the technology frenzy still has a long way to go.
No more Secrets
Winter 2007-08
Individuals, enterprises and even states are increasingly under pressure. The buzzword is transparency; just a fad or will it change business, markets and leadership for ever?