IT documents comes with different names such as the following: - Manual or handbook, - Policies and procedures, - Management systems, - Project plans. In the real world we have various names with unique descriptions and purposes when in fact they could be made to do a uniform direction for which actions are based for the entire IT initiatives, probably the longest in IT lifecycle is operation. The problem is our inclination on something else which is wrong. IT remains an IT area. Business remains a business area. The same problem is carried out when we conduct IT audit. Most audit are missing the gists in which IT is being used by businesses. We once said that an effective IT audit is conducted by IT people themselves but there is something wrong with that even. Business and accounting people have been doing it with a different bias and preconceived notions which doesn't make the cut for IT direction and audit respectively. Leaders play the same game and so the problem continues an...

We have just posted some questions, which further discovers practical readiness and application of such efforts. Something that is not so expensive but without limiting the exhaustive quality of their outcome. Check the links: - IT spending , and - Data privacy . That would be all for this Monday.

Data is important in our jobs. It is the key to factual business decisions and even market innovations. The basis for policy making in many organizations, enterprises, governments and scientific pursuits. Data fed into AIs and technical related endeavors must be handled with caution. It must be scrutinized with keen interests and attention for stakeholders' legitimate purposes and in accordance to standard necessities, actual intentions and aims. Excesses or any hint of raggedness is to the detriment of any customer and must be taken as cue that something sinister, if not anomaly, exists in a system. To be exact, it could be a specific code, variables and functions that facilitates such data or events and what makes them skim. Data and identifiers makes humans and their activities numbered including but not limited to UUID, DOI, SIM, ICCID, IMEI, SEID, MEID, WWN, MAC and IP addresses. They exist in varying types of computers or devices, their processors, storage and software or app...

The best time to learn the art and science of technology consulting or just the necessary practice required for a business not to be left behind or not to bleed cash unnessentially is now. Technology is magnanimous but it doesn't mean it has to continue being an alien to almost everyone. Technologies surrounding computers, the Internet, programmable devices, sensors, AI, differentiated network convergence and decentralized systems, data and content are gaining an unprecedented development and adaptation within, and greatly affecting, enterprises, societies and their people. It must be the more powerful that everyone become a learned stakeholder, not just an end-user and leave everything to the vendor, service provider and their technology counterparts. Smart cities are a giant technological upgrade and the experience must make people deal more for their lives in a better way. Why make everyone learn? Businesses can focus what matters to them. Technology can primarily help organizat...