Colt's Blog

Last Tuesday night, the Colt Innovation & Prototyping team, which I lead, attended the Market Gravity and Wired UK Corporate Entrepreneur Awards. The awards recognize and celebrate the achievements of teams who are working hard within large companies to deliver game changing innovation and growth. Colt’s team was shortlisted for “Best example of building an entrepreneurial [...] Read more

Earlier this month I was delighted to present on stage at VMworld Colt’s new vCloud 5.1: I was joined on-stage by Tona Monedero (CIO of Codorniu, more of which later). I talked about our geographic rollout of vCloud, and how at Colt we now have a cloud platform that is fit for purpose when it comes [...] Read more

In the last few weeks I've met a number of CIOs at various industry events including the CIO Connect Annual Conference. The main recurring theme was “Where is the CIO role going?" driven by three major trends. First is the emergence of Consumerisation and Bring Your Own Device. In her “Are you an adult at work? [...] Read more

Why does the IT industry assume that 'self-service' is always the way to go? When we speak to our clients, it's frequently not what they want — at least, not if self-service means self-provisioning. They certainly do want flexible and on-demand services. They want the ability to order, deploy, report on, manage and fix their IT [...] Read more

In general, the legal department isn’t always associated with innovative ways of providing services, but here at Colt, we’ve taken a good, hard look at how we provide those services to our business for our internal and external customers, to enable the business and support our company’s growth. Any initiatives we have taken over the last [...] Read more