Cell Phone Distraction

Monday, July 20, 2015

Turning our cell phones onto silent in order to focus and not be distracted may just be a fallacy. A new study just released (read it here) has found that where we even hear or feel the buzz of our cell phone, our concentration breaks and we are more likely …

Forbes’s Top 10 IT Trends for 2015

Monday, June 8, 2015

Forbes’s magazine recently published a list of the Top 10 IT Trends for 2015 (Read it here). As a business leader, you will want to keep on top of these and ensure you are ready for what lies ahead. For those of us old enough to remember life before computers, …

How Well Is Your IT Managed?

Sunday, February 1, 2015

I am so old I once worked in an office with no computers! Since then I have seen IT creep into every aspect of organisations, and continually morph into its next life-form. I wonder if we had the opportunity to scrap all our existing IT and design something form the …

Anytime Email and Work-Life Balance

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Email has extended its reach beyond the traditional workplace into the non-work hours of employees, disrupting the work-life balance. What was once ‘anywhere any time’ has become ‘everywhere all the time’ (Mazmanian, Orlikowski, & Yates, 2013). A new study by Avondale Business School researchers (available here) examines the effects of …

Death, Taxes, and …Technological Change!

Monday, July 7, 2014

In a recent survey of CFO’s, accountants and finance professionals, 93% of Australian respondents believe developments in technology will either totally or to a great extent transform the way accountants and the finance function do business over the next 10 years. There only question left is how? ACCA (the Association …