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How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment You can view the newly published article, Time to raise the CIO's game, at McKinsey Quarterly silicon.com: Can you describe the 'new normal' for the business world? There are a number of tactical things... [18 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up According to silicon.com's CIO Jury: never. It probably doesn't help that all our best techies are spending all of their free time clearing out spyware from their mates' PCs for cash or... [06 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News The company's CIO Paul Cheesbrough knows all about the challenges of moving to the cloud, after recently migrating 2,000 staff from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange to Google Apps Premier Edition and Google's email... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News According to the TechMarketView report, there are around 40,000 UK nationals now working in the US software industry, and Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, suggested that given the global nature of big business, UK... [03 Nov 2009]
How a tech 'watch list' can save CIOs from being caught out
News Companies should create their own "technology watch lists" so they know when cutting-edge technology is ready for widespread adoption - and also to keep the CIO from being ambushed by other execs. Such a list should also... [12 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News According to a silicon.com CIO Jury last month, the answer is not very. Once again, September saw another fresh crop of students head off to university for the first time, on their way to becoming the... [06 Oct 2009]
Why CIOs are saying no to Macs
News It's a situation that looks unlikely to change, despite the launch of a new Mac OS: a recent poll of the silicon.com CIO Jury found none of the IT chiefs surveyed said the release of Snow Leopard will prompt their... [02 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of open source across the public sector. The benefits of open source software are clear to Jeremy Tuck, CIO of Islington... [29 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be,... [21 Sep 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Dell CIO Robin Johnson is tasked with steering the company through the credit crunch. The Dell CIO is seeing it play out right now - with revenues dropping $3.7bn year on year during the... [04 Sep 2009]
Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Microsoft Word ban and BT broadband
News With Google recently joining the operating system party with its own offering, Chrome, silicon.com's Naked CIO was prompted last month to wonder whether we really need another OS to worry about. Sticking with Windows 7,... [01 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News Members of the silicon.com CIO Jury certainly think so. According to Alastair Behenna, CIO at recruiter Harvey Nash, the tablet is fit for business use "especially for information 'on the move'. Jacques... [13 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: No outstanding CIOs? Pah!
Comment Next time a CEO asks his board whether anyone knows of a good CIOs, maybe he should start by asking them if they have are willing to let a CIO be great even if it may show up some of their own weaknesses. [10 Aug 2009]
Inside the SpinVox Brain
Comment Along with several other journalists who have been following 'SpinGate' by publicly wondering how much human intervention is required in SpinVox's Voice Message Conversion System (aka The Brain), I was invited to the corporate... [06 Aug 2009]
Dynamic IT: Expand Your Capabilities With Red Hat Open Source
White Paper Every CIO faces a dilemma. For the CIO, creative thinking and innovation are the solutions. Today's CIO must join the open source revolution - or be left behind. A shortage of planning... [05 Aug 2009]
