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RSS CarayolPhotos of the month - September 06
Photo CIO forum talking heads: Conference chairman René Carayol kicked things off on a positive note at silicon.com's CIO Forum. Rolling with the times: Folding up your laptop as easily as your newspaper could happen in as... [28 Sep 2006]
Editor's Blog: Post-CIO Forum
Comment Before opening the day, and handing over to the much more capable hands of chair René Carayol and keynoter Peter Cochrane, I hadn't been sure how much to have a go at events similar to ours. My head is a bit clearer now. [28 Sep 2006]
Photos: Quotes of the day - CIO Forum
Photo 'Reasons to be cheerful': Conference chairman René Carayol began on an upbeat note for the CIO delegates. You have to be optimistic. If you're not optimistic then how the hell are your people going to feel? [26 Sep 2006]
silicon.com CIO Forum attracts top tech talent
News Former CIO and popular business guru René Carayol will chair. The silicon.com CIO Forum has added more top name CIOs to the list of attendees for the 26 September event. The annual gathering of the UK's top IT users -... [07 Aug 2006]
Boardroom Despatches: Two groups to sanity check tech
Comment To find out which technologies will be truly great - and not just great sounding - René Carayol says we need to heed the opinions of two frequently overlooked demographics. In this country and most of the developed world... [17 Aug 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment René Carayol asks you to ask whether your board is missing a trick. What is it that your organisation can do better than anyone else? Is it being fully harnessed? Great, enduring organisations fascinate me. [13 Jul 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Sainsbury's cautionary tale
Comment In the first of a new series for 2005 aimed at those at the top of IT or business - or quite possibly both - Rene Carayol revisits the retail sector. He takes a close look at J Sainsbury plc and a recent poor run all too... [19 Jan 2005]
5 years ago… IT users need a profile boost
News Read silicon.com columnist and former CIO Rene Carayol's take on the difference between a CIO and an IT director. 08.12.1999:The IT user community needs to reassert itself to prevent vendors taking control of the... [08 Dec 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: How the CIO differs from the traditional IT director
Comment Why is Rene Carayol fit to provide that reasoning? This has been the year of the first silicon.com CIO Forum, an event where I really fired up the audience by saying it is easier for an executive to move from a... [08 Dec 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Broadband ABCs
Comment In the first of two columns this week that draw on this month's ABC broadband conference for inspiration, Rene Carayol explains how he rediscovered his faith, in no small part due to a technology leader we know well… [17 Nov 2004]
SME Philes: 6 questions CIOs should ask themselves
Comment As the 'real-world' CIO Jury session at silicon.com's CIO Forum in September rattled along, I heard my old friend Rene Carayol talking about CIO being an acronym for 'Career Is Over'. silicon.com is proud to introduce a... [10 Nov 2004]
Analysis: Has the "CIO" reached the end of the line?
Comment Former CIO and silicon.com columnist Rene Carayol, claims it is "easier to teach a business person about technology than it is to teach a technologist about business". The role of the CIO and IT director has once again... [06 Oct 2004]
CIO Jury: Tech or exec - which makes the best CIO?
News But one of those who supported Carayol's comment was Graham Benson, information services director and CIO at Screwfix Direct. The debate was sparked by silicon.com columnist and ex-CIO Rene Carayol's... [04 Oct 2004]
CIO - tech, exec or waste of space?
News Ex-CIO and silicon.com columnist Rene Carayol provoked some debate by suggesting that boardrooms have lost faith in IT and that more business people are getting the top IT job because it is easier to teach them about... [01 Oct 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.10.04
Round-Up Guest speakers such as Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and silicon.com columnist and former CIO Rene Carayol were practically falling over themselves to come up with memorable quotes. "How surprised I was, to discover to my... [01 Oct 2004]
