Data backup solutions
This guide considers the business benefits of backup, including the specific advantages it can deliver in terms of business continuity, disaster recovery, and other areas.
IT management
Good IT management is essential to achieving value from IT systems and managing the risks associated with them. IT management covers the full lifecycle of systems, from the initial decision to invest in a system through its operational life until it is no longer needed and ultimately decommissioned.
In this section
Business continuity
Developing a digital marketing strategy
This guide provides an overview of some of the many management issues involved, for example the role of backup as a part of broader business continuity and resilience strategies. These highlight the fact that backup is not merely a technology issue but one that can go to the heart of the business's survival.
Spiralling out of control
The financial services industry cannot afford another crisis, so firms need an A-team that can respond more quickly to problems and stop them escalating.
Business Continuity Management
This introductory guide will offer tools, tips and techniques for businesses of any size.
IT infrastructure
Webinar resources
Thank you for registering on to the Business and Management Faculty's webinar, Practical Excel tips, broadcast on 6 December 2018.
Bring your own devices policy
Mark Taylor of the IT faculty explains the pros and cons of adopting BYOD and runs through practical tips for developing effective a BYOD policy.
Exploring CPU flaws Meltdown and Spectre
Almost every central processing unit is under threat from two flaws – Meltdown and Spectre. Leo Waldock explains what are they and why they are so dangerous, including tips for keeping them at bay.
Quantum computing
Gary Tinnams explores the world of quantum computing and how the efforts of IBM and Google might one day bear fruit. Enter the megacomputer.
IT governance and strategy
Practical Guide to Green IT
This guide focuses on how IT can help your organisation reduce its environmental impact and concentrate, in particular, on areas where the greatest cost savings can be achieved.
Applying Corporate Governance principles to IT
Governance is a framework for leadership, organisational structures and business processes, standards and compliance to these standards, which enables the achievement of an organisation's strategies and objectives. In the twenty-first century, applying these principles to IT is critical for all organisations. Those without an IT governance strategy face significant risks; those with such a strategy perform measurably better.
Managing IT in the SME: A guide for finance directors
This guide is for finance directors who have overall responsibility for IT in a small to medium enterprise (SME). For the purpose of the guide it is assumed that the day-to-day working of the IT function is in the hands of an IT manager.
Finance in a Digital World
ICAEW is collaborating with Deloitte to ensure its members and students have the knowledge and skills to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the fourth industrial revolution and to meet its challenges head on. Log-in to access exclusive content, including: eLearning, webinars and bite-sized summaries on individual technologies and the broader impact of digital technologies on finance.
Making information systems work
Making information systems work
Making Information Systems Work is about the successful application of IT by business and government. It supports informed debate and practice on the basis of three themes –value, trust and standards.
Legal considerations and implications for cloud adoption
There are a number of legal implications that should be considered by both accounting practices and small businesses in the UK before adopting cloud computing services.
Cloud adoption
Read our three guides to cloud adoption – what are the risks and how to choose a cloud platform?
Digital transformation
The guide to Digital Transformation outlines the business benefits including increased customer engagement, flexible working and more.
Industry press
The Library & Information Service provides a hand-picked collection of industry press articles as a benefit of membership. If you are unable to access an article, please see our Help and support or contact library@icaew.com
IOT pushes storage to the edge
The article discusses how the internet of things (IoT), a broad network of physical devices that include sensors, vehicles, mobile devices and even home appliances that create and share data, affect business enterprises' storage and the way the data is managed. Topics including the data distribution processing, the information lifecycle of IoT, and the suppliers' solutions in IoT in terms of requirements of IoT and storage are discussed.
Taking a closer look at mainframe security
The article offers information on important points about mainframe security. Topics including the mainframes' mission-critical to several businesses and organizations, with 71 percent of the Fortune 500 storing countless instances of personally identifying information (PII), financial information, and health data on the systems, the conspiracy of silence around mainframe vulnerability disclosure, and the importance of automation to vulnerability management, are discussed.
Putting security in context
The article focuses on the importance of understanding data assets and their value to attackers for effective cyber defence. It discusses why the security industry, and increasingly digital organisations must change the way they have approached information security. According to chief executive officer Mark Raeburn, the only real change is that there is already a lot more on the corporate IT network, with almost everything connected.
Shell's multi-decade digital transition
The article focuses on Shell's newly announced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning which will help the company to aid the predictive maintenance of the equipment used to run its downstream and upstream operations. According to chief technology officer Yuri Sebregts, digital transformation for the company started 50 years ago and it has been a constant evolution.
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Useful links
Tech donut
Guidance on IT management topics for SMEs. Covers the following areas: computer hardware; business software; the internt; communications; IT security; buy and manage IT; IT support; staff and IT training.
Next generation mobile technologies: An update to the 5G strategy for the UK
This document summarises the progress made by the government to deliver against the goals outlined in the 5G Strategy and the steps to be taken to ensure that the UK is a global leader in this area.
Reshaping business with artificial intelligence
MIT Sloan Management Review has partnered with The Boston Consulting Group to provide baseline information on the strategies used by companies leading in AI, the prospects for its growth, and the steps executives need to take to develop a strategy for their business. (Subscription required to view full report)
Automate this: The business leader’s guide to robotic and intelligent automation
Deloitte guidance on the adoption of robot-led automation. Includes five steps to automation adoption and a checklist.
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