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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 we tend to be pretty good... [17 Aug 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment What is it that your organisation can do better than anyone else? Is it being fully harnessed? René Carayol asks you to ask whether your board is missing a trick. 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 closely aligned with... [19 Jan 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: How the CIO differs from the traditional IT director
Comment 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 non-technical business background to heading up IT than vice versa. [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]
Boardroom Despatches: IBM's second wind
Comment Much of the progress that came from the 1990s recovery at IBM under Lou Gerstner could have been for nothing if the company's 2002 purchase of PwC had flopped. But Rene Carayol says IBM now leads the tech pack - again. [24 Sep 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Know when to quit
Comment We're used to the idea of a crusading business leader whose strength is tied to never giving up. But, argues columnist Rene Carayol, such a hard-headed approach can often be the undoing of such leaders - and their organisations. [28 Jul 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Ageism is for the also-rans
Comment "We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. Mark Twain I know a number of head hunters and am always getting calls for some looking... [26 May 2004]
Ageism in IT coverage - all in one place
Comment Boardroom Despatches: Ageism is for the also-rans Ageism is an issue in IT, if only because it's seen as a profession for young people and is having to deal with an ageing working population. But how much real discrimination is there - and how much... [20 May 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Apple's rebirth
Comment Forget the success of iTunes or even the iPod. The lesson to take from Apple is all about an organisation and leader that can learn from its past, says Rene Carayol. Are Apple - and its charismatic leader Steve Jobs - the ultimate reformed act? [22 Apr 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Eager suppliers, supine buyers
Comment Continuing a recent silicon.com theme of large organisations being brave enough to use smaller suppliers, Rene Carayol this month explains why seemingly playing safe with IT procurement is ultimately dangerous for all of us. [10 Mar 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Process - no substitute for creativity
Comment Rene Carayol is increasingly concerned with the calibre of person getting on the bottom wrung of IT and the type of individual increasingly taking over at the top. Is throwing away the manual the answer? [13 Jan 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: The death of the CIO
Comment The top echelon of IT is going to be dominated increasingly by those whose background isn’t in the profession. That’s the way it looks if the recent history of the sector is anything to go by says Rene Carayol. [22 Dec 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: Inside Intel
Comment Some people think Craig Barrett is the pen pusher guiding the inevitable success of a tech stalwart. How wrong they are, writes Rene Carayol. Recently I had the pleasure of hosting an evening where the top brass from the UK retail sector met one of... [21 Nov 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: Fear of failure
Comment Too often UK bosses are stigmatised when they fall short. But, again, we could learn a thing or two from what happens in the US, says Rene Carayol. The shock resignation of Kingston Communications boss Steve Maine a couple of weeks ago got me... [23 Sep 2003]
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