Marco Tapia

Marco Tapia

IT Consulting Services Senior Advisor at PicNet

Since founding PicNet in 2001, Marco has been responsible for its overall strategic direction, its consulting services and its business development. Marco's experience includes Company Director, CIO, Business Technology Consultant and IT Project Manager. He has managed large and medium size IT functions for national and international corporations.

Marco Tapia

October 2, 2012

IT Service Desk Models

What is the difference between a call centre, a help desk and an IT service desk (ITSD)? With over 10 years experience in IT, we break down what an IT service desk is, the pros and cons of various ITSD models and the types of organisations they're su ...

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Marco Tapia

July 2, 2012

A fantastic shift is occurring in IT Management

For a while, there had been predictions of the death of the internal IT department. Wrong! There had also been predictions about the death of the IT Manager and CIO. Wrong! What is just occurring, in my view, is a fantastic shift, a shift from being ...

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Marco Tapia

May 14, 2012

Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's nearly everything

Productivity is the efficiency with which an economy (or a company or a business unit) transforms inputs into outputs. At a high level, improved production efficiency can generate higher real incomes and lead to long term improvements in the living s ...

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Marco Tapia

January 23, 2012

Increase Productivity - The main reason to invest in new technology

A new survey by the Australian Industry Group and Deloitte has found that "by far and away the most common reason for business investing in new technologies over the past three years has been to increase productivity levels" . As can be seen in the t ...

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Marco Tapia

January 13, 2012

Productivity will come down to technology and innovation in the long term

Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's nearly everything Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. John Edwards, the Reserve Bank of Australia board member said in a paper published by the RBA, that economic reforms would enhance p ...

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Marco Tapia

October 27, 2011

Gartner: the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2012

From: www.cio.com, Michael Cooney, Network World October 18, 2011 ORLANDO - The technology that makes up many of the systems in the IT world today is at a critical juncture and in the next five years everything from mobile devices and applications to ...

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