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	Technical Architects Demystified All you'll ever need to know!
	FT - Cost or Investment This article is the pre-edited version of the piece that appeared in Ade McCormack's regular FT column entitled Boardroom Debate.
	How core is IT to your business? This article appeared in Ade McCormack's regular FT column entitled Boardroom Debate.
	Financial Times - Is Microsoft bad for business? This article appeared in Ade McCormack's regular FT column entitled Boardroom Debate.
	Measuring IT Value This article appeared in the December editon of Finance Director Europe.
	Financial Times - IT Leadership Should IT be left to the CIO? This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in a recent edition.
	Financial Times - Surviving IT Trade shows Boardroom IT Clinic is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 9th March edition.
	Financial Times - Knowledge Management Boardroom IT Clinic is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 14th February edition.
	Financial Times - IT and Corporate Governance Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 15th December edition.
	Some of my best friends are cyborgs For the last 40 years the world of robotics has promised us intelligent devices that would clean the house and deliver breakfast in bed. Many would argue that there is no need as the organic equivalent does the job pretty well (NB Political correctness activists - this is a genderless statement). This article takes a look at the world of robotics and pins down where we actually are in respect of useful applications.
	Financial Times - IT and business strategy alignment Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 17th November edition.
	What IT leaders want for Christmas - 2004 We take a look at what the top people in IT still yearn for!
	Financial Times - Why do IT projects fail? Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 20th October edition.
	Getting best value from the IT investment Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 22nd September edition.
	Financial Times - What makes techies tick? Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 23rd June edition.
	Financial Times - Enterprise applications Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 21st July edition.
	Financial Times - Ask the Experts - Is Java a safe bet? Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 31st March edition.
	Financial Times - Ask the Experts - Middleware Ask the experts is a column in the Financial Times IT Review supplement, which focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. This short article, written by Auridian’s MD and founder, Ade McCormack, appeared in the 3rd March edition.
	Bridging the Divide This article appeared in the February 2004 Last words column in IT Training magazine. - IT is far too important to be left to the IT function, says Ade McCormack, who argues that the training department can help bridge the gap between IT and the rest of the company.
	Ask the Experts - Financial Times Ask the experts focuses on addressing IT issues faced by business leaders. Today’s question is: "What, if anything is the difference between on-demand and utility computing?"
	Utility Computing Your two minute briefing on how to sound like a utility computing expert.
	Autonomic computing Your two minute briefing on how to sound like an autonomic computing expert.
	Grid computing Your two minute briefing on how to sound like a grid computing expert.
	Secure recruitment Very few of us can avoid conducting business electronically, ie managing data in-house and communicating with the outside world. Thus we are faced with both internal and external threats to our business. This short article reviews the issues and what IT recruiters can do about them.
	e-Business is the game This short paper details how to play the e-business game.
	XML - I've never meta language like it - revisited It has been well over a year since I first wrote about XML. Back then it was simply a data formatting language. Today it is evolving into the lingua franca of e-business. This article explores XML and its accessory buzzwords.
	e-Government needs e-people E-government is unlikely to become a reality unless people are included in the migration plans. This article takes a look at the surrounding issues and possible solution.
	CRM - Less is more for IT recruiters CRM is a much used and little understood term. This short article sets out to demystify a subject that should be close to the heart of all customer focused recruitment companies.
	The Open Source Phenomenon We take a look at this industry shaking phenomenon.
	Strategy Clinic The buzzcronyms e-CRM, P2P and ASP explained in a 'ready to use at a cocktail party' format.