http://www.systemiclogic.net/ Radical Ideas, Practical Implementation! Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:42:19 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss/ XOOPS 2.0.9.2 New Articles jayvanzyl@systemiclogic.net jayvanzyl@systemiclogic.net en http://www.systemiclogic.net/images/logo.jpg http://www.systemiclogic.net/ 144 58 http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=103 Why do we need CMS now? “We are drowning in information and thirsting for knowledge.” John Naisbitt, Megatrends 2000. In the past decade advances in ICTs have resulted in an explosion in the generation of both structured and unstructured information. The prime driver of content management and the development of content management applications has been the quest by Information Age companies to streamline information assets in order to gain enterprise knowledge needed to realise business goals. This is because for contemporary institutions, content management systems (CMS) offer the promise of optimal solutions for holistically creating and managing enterprise content and mostly for organising, interpreting and integrating content for reuse. There has been an urgency to identify and implement solutions that enable organisations to rationalise their chaotic information terrain, to gain competitiveness and business agility through effective administration of the information resources. Ho Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:46:15 EDT http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=103 http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=102 All modern organisations, in existence for any length of time, will have built up a portfolio of technology assets. Often these assets are acquired without a guiding blueprint; with many developed, customised and altered to fit each organisation’s specific context, at a point in time. A key responsibility for technical architects is to understand the health of the current technical environment in their organizations. This understanding allows them to prioritise and address those areas which are most in need of intervention, whether the interventions be incremental corrective actions or investments in wholesale replacement of infrastructure or applications. SystemicLogic, has many years’ experience in conducting asset health assessments for its clients. Some have progressed to having assessments performed at regular intervals. These help monitor the success (or otherwise) of corrective actions, or place a measure on the degradation of assets, often the result of urgent enhancements whic Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:59:26 EDT http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=102 http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=101 [img]http://www.systemiclogic.net/uploads/img4a2775a476cb0.jpg[/img] Developing a really compelling offering into a competitive market is a challenge. Today, the offering, as we term it, is a unique combination of services and products which form the overall proposition to an organisation’s customers. Within a competitive market the uniqueness, coolness, functionality, price and value adding services, in combination, will determine the success or otherwise of an offering in a given market. The challenge however does not end with the design and development of the offering. If the market perceives that the proposition is not what it is made out to be, and the promise is not being fulfilled, the offering can quickly lose its appeal and destroy any reputation that was staked out in the market. In a partially dematerialised world, the providers of the various products and services will typically be global, brought together in an ecosystem providing the capabilities supporting the offeri Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:22:58 EDT http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=101 http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=100 The advent of Internet and communication technology has significantly transformed the business of banking. It has also stimulated the development of Core Banking (CB) solutions that drive key banking operations. CB systems provide transaction processing and account management functions underpinning traditional and contemporary banking products and services. These systems ideally allow all products, processes, channels and customer relationship management tools to be integrated and administered through a central database of a bank, with branches and channels as delivery points. Innovations in the core banking IT systems capacitates a banking institution to develop, process, and manage its basic financial products and services effectively. Drivers of CB Systems Reform : Global Banking organisations are driving towards core banking systems transformations to re-establish themselves. Banks and other financial institutions are currently experiencing a number of challenges and pressures Fri, 29 May 2009 03:21:53 EDT http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=100 http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=99 [img align=center]http://www.systemiclogic.net/uploads/img4a1252023b878.jpg[/img] For a couple of years now the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has worked with SystemicLogic executives in the area of Innovation. It is against this back ground that SystemicLogic is proud to be associated with the recent success at GIBS. For the sixth consecutive year, GIBS has been ranked as one of the World's top business schools by the prestigious [url=http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/university-of-pretoria-gibs]UK Financial Times[/url]. GIBS was placed 38th in the rankings and is the only African business school to achieve this accolade. The ranking, announced earlier last week by the Financial Times, is based on the performance of GIBS’s Executive Education and Company-Specific Programmes (CSP). Professor Karl Hofmeyr, GIBS director of CSP, was delighted to see GIBS’s hard work pay off. “We are very pleased to share our success with the com Tue, 19 May 2009 03:23:08 EDT http://www.systemiclogic.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=99