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Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment As Nick Kirkland, chief executive of IT leaders' forum CIO Connect, says: "Most CIOs I know are considering [UCC] projects rather than doing them. Vendors may be making a lot of noise about unified... [17 Nov 2009]
Naked CIO: No outstanding CIOs? Pah!
Comment This is one of the reasons why CIOs need to be represented on the board, so they have a forum to out those who implicitly are have negative effect on the value of IT in an organisation. Why is it so difficult to find a... [10 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Central government departments are already considering the offshoring of IT under the Operational Efficiency Programme, the Treasury's drive to cut £7.2bn off central government's annual IT and back office costs, while a report into how... [03 Aug 2009]
More than half of businesses 'will never adopt Vista'
News In November last year, all 12 of silicon.com's CIO Jury revealed that they had no plans to embrace Vista, while in October the Corporate IT Forum found that Vista is continuing to play second fiddle to... [08 Jan 2009]
Q&A: Schroders CIO, Matthew Oakeley
Comment He joined the company three and a half years ago and in that time has overseen the Book of Record back-office transformation project which was recently named overall winner at the Corporate IT Forum's Real IT Awards. [06 Jan 2009]
Microsoft users "satisfied" with Vista, claims Microsoft
News In October, research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif) found that more than half of those surveyed were "exploiting" XP compared to just four per cent for Vista. Despite this, in a recent silicon.com CIO... [08 Dec 2008]
CIOs still plan investment despite tight budgets
News The Corporate IT Forum asked some of its top CIO members about their priorities for 2009, with managing costs and careful budgeting - as well as cutting back on technology for technology's sake -... [05 Dec 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment Some mention old technology favourites: "Vendors stay faithful to Windows 95" and "User forum warns users to prepare for NT 5". Exclusive column: The Naked CIO See what this CIO really... [11 Jul 2008]
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment These shifts will change the way organisations choose and pay for systems, says Corporate IT Forum research head Ollie Ross. What's also certain is that members of The Corporate IT Forum are taking a... [16 Jun 2008]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Outside of Virgin, the Cambridge-educated Lewis is a non-executive director of mobile services software supplier Elata, a member of the customer advisory board for Tideway Systems and a board member of the Telecommunications Management... [11 Jun 2008]
Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps
News As part of this summer's JavaFX preview programme for scripters and web developers, Sun said it will be looking for forum-based feedback on the JavaFX preview release before it rolls out the first officially launched... [08 May 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership Forum are emphasising it's much more than that, reports silicon.com editorial board member Richard Sykes. An earlier session had given the floor to Ken Brame, the recently... [18 Feb 2008]
Top 10 outsourcing stories of the year
News IT chiefs at silicon.com's CIO Forum in October. Reuters CIO, David Lister, told silicon.com the contract would solve a lot of legacy issues that the company had been dealing with.... [18 Dec 2007]
British Energy hires new CIO
News In the meantime Campbell will continue his role as chairman of the blue-chip user group the Corporate IT Forum while he considers his next career move. British Energy has hired a new CIO to help the... [07 Dec 2007]
Microsoft licensing value under scrutiny
News Ian Campbell, CIO for British Energy and chairman of the Corporate IT Forum, said: "It would be great if we user organisations could collaborate to get some standardisation with licensing. At a recent... [15 Nov 2007]
