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Diana

Diana Catton MBA



Diana is the CEO at Octagon Technology Ltd with special responsibilities for strategy, finance and keeping up with legislation. Her MBA and many years’ business experience make her particularly well qualified for her role, and she is never happier than when she is grappling with financial analysis and spreadsheets.

Because the business operates in a constantly changing arena she takes part of each day to make sure she can “talk the talk” about IT by accessing up-to-date training and specialist newsletters. She was closely involved with Clive’s research for his MSc in cyber security and continues to keep up with the evolving threats and mitigations in cyber space.

Hey! You with all the hats!

If you are a business owner, you wear many hats, particularly whilst your company is growing.  Big corporates can employ specialists – management accountants, financial accountants, tax specialists, contracts lawyers, employment lawyers, recruitment specialists, marketing gurus – and the list goes on. You have to be all of those people, so how do you find […]

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digital divide

The Digital Divide

Last week I attended a number of very interesting talks, ranging from those given at my party’s Spring Conference, via a talk from one of the professors at my university to a conference hosted by Computing magazine.  A recurring theme seems to be the Digital Divide. What do I mean by the Digital Divide? Well,

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Clean Your Computer

Who knew that this month was Clean up your Computer month?  I looked at resources online relating to this and most of it was about things people had to do before storage was so cheap and all the files they were working on were actually on their own computer rather than in the cloud.  Still, there are

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