Archive for the ‘IT’ tag
Do you care about software quality?
Chris Spagnulo in Commons Blog reports that according to a survey 40% of CIOs are indifferent to the quality of software they produce. Chris rightly reports that the costs of failed software in a business are tremendous. I’ve heard horror stories of automated bank account payment systems pulling a monthly payment from an account more than ten times in one night due to a glitch and key systems dropping out on a whim.
I hadn’t quite realized how lucky I’ve been to work with a few of CIOs and IT professionals that are fanatical about quality and understand the that a workman is only as good as their tools, yet based upon personal experience I can’t say that these statistics surprise me.
HSBC considering iPhones instead of Blackberries
Liam Tung reports in CNET on August 14 that HSBC may be considering an iPhone fleet:
Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple’s iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones
Although he goes onto write that HSBC state the decision has a fairly low priority at present and it is part of normal business to evaluate different technologies, it is pretty telling that a large financial institution would even consider switching.
One of the things that HSBC (and Apple) would need to consider is how would Apple deal with a batch order for so many phones? Even for a company of Apple’s size and considerable supply chain management skills, this would be a huge order with some pretty tight service level agreements.
