Technology is messy. It’s complex. It’s political.
Vendors muddy the waters with ambiguous buzzwords. Projects go awry. People refuse to use systems when they are finally delivered. If effective use of technology wasn’t crucial to your success, you probably wouldn’t touch it.

Graham Oakes Ltd helps you work out how to use technology to achieve your business goals. We provide strategic independent consulting and mentoring to help you manage the ambiguity and uncertainty that surround any major business initiative.

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Project Reviews, Assurance and Governance

My book is now available. You can get copies direct from Gower Publishing, or from retailers such as Amazon. If you want a signed copy, or to make a bulk order, please contact me at graham@grahamoakes.co.uk and I'll be happy to share the author's discount with you.

Free Project Reviews

As an introductory offer, we are offering free project reviews to new clients.  Download the details or contact graham@grahamoakes.co.uk.

J.Boye Aarhus '11
I'll be doing 2 sessions at the J.Boye Aarhus'11 conference in November:
  1. Tutorial:  How to write a business case that sets your project up for success
  2. Moving to the Cloud:  A case study of Oxfam's experience in moving its web systems to the cloud
Details are on the conference site.
SOA & Enterprise Integration

The Evaluation Centre publishes my monthly column on  SOA, Web Services and Enterprise Integration.

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                Industry Awards Graham Oakes Ltd was a medallist in the BCS IT Consultancy of the Year awards for 2007.
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