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RSS it job boardSharp rise in demand for helpdesk staff
News Demand for junior and graduate entry-level helpdesk positions has increased by 45 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest skills report from online recruitment company The IT Job Board. [23 Oct 2007]
How to survive the first 100 days as CIO
News Other important things for a new CIO to get their head around might include corporate governance - details of who is on the management committee, where the board is meeting, how the audit committee works and how investment is done. [22 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07
Round-Up So back to the drawing board again for the Zune. Not that the Round-Up is insinuating anything, far from it - she's the chief financial officer of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, which, the Xbox 360 aside, sounds like a nice, quiet... [07 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics
Comment As part of the process I was interviewed by a board responsible for gathering industry views on the topic. Management by very large numbers of metrics always leads to a layered dishonesty where people do their job as best they can, and then report... [28 Aug 2007]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment I frequently find my similar fears, that today's IT Directors are too obsessed with promotion to the Board and yet don't understand their own business, are shared with a wide cross-section of the industry. [23 Aug 2007]
Skills Survey 2007: Offshoring still a hot potato
News This compares to less than a third of CIOs, and just over a third of board-level executives and IT managers. However, according to The Work Foundation report: "Indian business insiders see future offshore outsourcing as an advantage for Europe... [21 Aug 2007]
Sun plans job cuts
News It's not immediately clear whether any new information came to light during those two days that may have prompted the board to approve the job cuts in order to meet the newly set expectations. Sun's board of directors approved the job cuts last... [08 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment Now quite a few of us like these kind of internet age uber-experiments but at a silicon.com editorial board dinner last night the subject came up of just how useful these networks are or will end up being.silicon.com columnist and well-known... [31 Jul 2007]
Semel quits as Yahoo! CEO
News Semel, meanwhile, will assume the position of nonexecutive chairman and serve as an adviser to the management team and board of directors. As the board and I discussed my future goals and plans I was clear in telling them of my desire to take a... [19 Jun 2007]
Women in IT: Welcome or not?
News However, Maggie Berry, UK communications director of online job-board womenintechnology.co.uk, disputes the notion that the IT industry is unwelcoming to women. In a survey of 100 female IT professionals by IT training company The Training Camp, 67... [13 Jun 2007]
Mid-sized companies lack IT plans
News Only 18 per cent of respondents said they have a formal IT plan approved by the board and just 16 per cent said they plan their tech investment for the next three to five years. There's often a disconnect between using IT to get the job done as... [07 Jun 2007]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile He became CIO and the only member of the executive management board to have been appointed from outside the company. A current area of interest for Lovell-Read is 'green' IT and in addition to his day job he is in the process of pulling together... [06 Jun 2007]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile In addition to his day job at Unilever Cameron is also a member of the board of IT industry skills body e-Skills UK, the Research Board and a co-chair of the UK CIO Executive Summit. Cameron had harboured more artistic ambitions but as a self... [06 Jun 2007]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile Nigel Underwood became CIO of DHL Logistics in 2005, following the company's £3.7bn acquisition of Exel, where he had been CIO and a member of the executive board since 2001. Away from the day job, Underwood is a passionate supporter and associate... [06 Jun 2007]
Stephen Brannan
CIO Profile In that role Brannan was also a member of Visa's European board and chair of the UK cards payment group of Apacs, the UK payments association. Before landing the top IT job at the banking group Brannan was MD of the RBS and NatWest cards division... [06 Jun 2007]
