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Tech-savvy school-leavers 'lack basic skills'

News School-leavers might be tech-savvy but they are increasingly entering the workplace without basic numerical and literacy skills, employers have warned. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pertemps Employment Trends Survey found 92 per...

Tags: gcses, cbi

[20 Aug 2007]

Leader: Should CIOs fear the rise of private equity?

Leader But after what seems like a period of relative ascendancy for the CIO and IT department more generally - after taking a knock when the tech bubble burst - there is a chance that because of private equity management, IT will again start reporting...

Tags: cio, boots, private equity

[03 Aug 2007]

IT failing in 'grab a grad' bids

News Although the tech industry is still pulling in interest, with IT companies receiving 22 applicants for every graduate vacancy, this is below the national average of 29, according to a recent graduate recruitment survey.

Tags: it skills shortage, it skills, skills shortage, soft skills

[10 Jul 2007]

Vietnam tipped to be next outsourcing hotspot

News In February silicon.com's Steve Ranger visited the Indian tech hotspots of Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. Click on the links below to see photo galleries of the cities and companies visited.¦ Satyam's IT campus ¦ Hyderabad's tech...

Tags: silkroad, harvey nash, china, india

[10 Jul 2007]

Does homegrown tech taste better?

News Tech companies will have to work harder for their customers' cash as companies spend a greater proportion of their budgets on in-house IT projects. A report from market analysis group Datamonitor suggests although tech budgets are on the rise...

Tags: efficiency, investment, vendors, datamonitor

[05 Jul 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

Comment With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment priorities and future trends.

Tags: esure, mark foulsham, graham yellowley, financial services

[19 Jun 2007]

Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?

Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?

Comment These days there's a lot of discussion about how consumer tech trends and web 2.0 affect businesses. Tech is playing an ever larger role in our work and home lives. So be careful how you choose to limit access to wikis, blogs, social networking...

Tags: facebook

[14 Jun 2007]

Europe must embrace more R&D

News Read the latest missive from tech guru and silicon.com columnist, Peter Cochrane, as he blogs from around the world. The report suggests this is due to Europe having a smaller high-tech industry - normally the biggest source of R&D spending - than...

Tags: investment, r&d, eu, ec

[13 Jun 2007]

Google, Microsoft doomed to fail?

News Google and Microsoft could be among the famous high-tech names to disappear from the corporate landscape within the next 20 years if a cycle of how companies die repeats itself. He said: "There is no one who stands on the roof with binoculars and...

Tags: kalido, hackett

[08 Jun 2007]

Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed

News The CIO50 list uniquely identifies the most influential and innovative individuals leading tech-driven change at the top of UK Plc. The career biographies in the CIO50 reveal some interesting trends. British Airways CIO Paul Coby has been voted the...

Tags: paul coby, cio50

[07 Jun 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

CIO Analysis With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment priorities and future trends.

Tags: financial services, gartner, graham yellowley, mark foulsham

[06 Jun 2007]

Vodafone's books looking less red

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Sarin added: "We expect market conditions to remain challenging for the year ahead in Europe, notwithstanding continued positive operating trends in data revenue and voice usage.

Tags: vodafone

[29 May 2007]

'Keeping the lights on' stifles tech innovation

News Two separate reports last week by the London School of Economics/PA Consulting and analyst Gartner hit out at a lack of vision from CIOs, saying the IT department is failing to take a lead and inform the board how to exploit new consumer-led...

Tags: cios, innovation, cio jury

[30 Apr 2007]

UK digital divide to deepen?

News The digital divide in Blighty could be set to deepen further as offline individuals are left behind their more tech-savvy neighbours. Fisher added there's a danger the digital divide will deepen as there are large numbers of people still struggling...

Tags: digital divide, e-government, digital, uk

[19 Mar 2007]

CIO Jury: Complexity is the enemy

News Complexity caused by business change and rapid technology developments is still one of the main battlegrounds for CIOs, according to UK tech chiefs. Paul Hopkins, IT director at Newcastle University, said IT will get "impossibly more complex" if...

Tags: complexity, cio jury

[14 Feb 2007]

Housing charity using tech to boost efficiency

News Scully added the system will allow the charity to not only share client data but also spot trends that help inform the charity's campaigning work. Housing charity Shelter has signed a deal with software services company Civica for a new client...

Tags: charity, efficiency, software, data management

[09 Feb 2007]

Tech acquisitions hit $337bn high

News One of the trends in the 2006 figures is the return of the "super deal" - with seven deals having values in excess of $10bn. The level of European technology merger and acquisitions hit a new high in 2006 - with more than 3,000 deals being done...

Tags: regent associates, m&a, acquisitions

[08 Feb 2007]

How to avoid being outsourced

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. This means keeping abreast of the latest trends and avoiding career cul-de-sacs by specialising in legacy skills such as Cobol, PL/1 and RPG. IT workers need to become more business-savvy...

Tags: theitjobboard.com, itjobboard.com, jobs, outsourcing

[08 Feb 2007]

Leader: Consumer tech is changing the enterprise

Leader But it also puts CIOs and IT directors in a position where they can influence company strategy by being able to predict changes in how their customers might use or buy services in the future - that's why enterprises need to sit up and take note of...

Tags: consumerisation

[11 Jan 2007]

Leader: The big issues of 2006

Leader This piece certainly isn't about attributing blame for any shortcomings but compare the situation to the world of consumer tech, not just gadgets and home entertainment but services people use outside the office.

[21 Dec 2006]

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