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Twenty-Five Years in Managed Services, and What Actually Stuck
My last day in managed services is 30 September, 25 years after my career began. The technology changed beyond recognition in that time, more than once. What stuck was what the work taught me about how the world works, about people, and eventually about myself. The lessons about the world came first. Most of the…
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The Skill Gap Nobody Puts on a Project Management Certificate
Every project manager I’ve worked alongside can build a schedule, manage a risk register and run a stand-up meeting competently. That was never really in question. What separates the ones whose projects actually land from the ones whose projects technically finish but never quite deliver what the business needed has always been something harder to…
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Where Should That Workload Actually Run?
For the best part of a decade, “put it in the cloud” was close to a universal answer. It was rarely wrong, often cheaper than the alternative in the short term, and it let a lot of infrastructure decisions get made quickly without much debate. That era of easy defaults appears to be ending, and…
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The Growth and Skills Levy is live. Is your training budget still working?
The Apprenticeship Levy, as most technology leaders understood it, no longer exists. Since the 1st of April this year, it’s the Growth and Skills Levy, following the Autumn Budget 2025 and the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. Oversight has also moved, from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education to a new body called…
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The business case for fixing tech’s gender gap
441,000. That’s how many women worked as IT specialists in the UK in 2024, according to BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT’s 2025 analysis of ONS labour market data. It’s a big number until you look at the share. 22% of all UK IT specialists. Up by exactly one percentage point on the year before,…
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The tech value gap: why your existing stack is worth more than you think
Every board I sit on asks the same question when budget season comes round. What do we need to buy next. Almost none of them ask the harder question. What have we already bought that we’re not getting value from. That second question is the one worth asking first, and new research from Deloitte UK…