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From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment It was delivered on time - just - and within budget - well, the client's budget, anyway. Having decided last year to stop being a CIO and start his own business, Mike Barrett has just finished his first major project. [02 Jul 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News A number of recent large IT projects by the government are late or over budget, including systems used by the Child Support Agency and the National Health Service. The Treasury has brought Read on board as part of a review of public sector spending... [23 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather runs the information... [11 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile This includes an IT budget of almost £140m, supporting all the tech needs of Network Rail's 17,500 employees spread across 460 locations around the country. She embarked on a career in technology after initially studying maths and geography at... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile At Unilever Neil Cameron is responsible for a 4,000-strong global IT department responsible for 85,000 desktops and an annual IT budget of around €800m. Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks... [11 Jun 2008]
How outsourcing saved Zurich's IT
Case Study Today, Zurich's IT department manages a budget of more than £1.8bn, more than 200 projects and 3,600 outsourced staff. Zurich, one of the world's largest insurers, has revealed how outsourcing helped turn around its IT department and a $3.4bn loss. [10 Jun 2008]
IT swallows a quarter of NHS cash budget
News The cost of upgrading NHS IT systems is now gobbling up a quarter of the health service's budget for major projects. CEO of the TaxPayers' Alliance Matthew Elliott said: "The staggering cost of NHS IT is a massive drain on resources that are meant... [09 Jun 2008]
Combating the Increasing Cost of Email
White Paper Businesses usually adopt a commonsense approach when it comes to spending the IT budget with cost being a major influencer in purchasing decisions. However, when it comes to choosing a mail server, many businesses seem to pay less attention to the... [15 May 2008]
Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution
White Paper The primary goals for data center operators are to save power costs and cool the systems to prevent heat-induced failures, expand data center space without straining the company budget every time an expansion occurs and plan a distributed data... [26 Apr 2008]
Security breaches down - but at what price?
News On the other hand, to pay for this relative success in spreading awareness, expenditure on information security has risen from two per cent to seven per cent of IT budget since 2002, according to the survey. [23 Apr 2008]
Skanska USA Building Assembles Better Planning and Forecasting With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
White Paper A Performance Management solution based on Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007, a unified performance management application that enables businesses to improve performance and profitability by giving relevant users the ability to monitor... [16 Apr 2008]
SAP takes tag-team approach to exec reshuffle
News In a conference call, Apotheker told the media that, in his new role, he will be responsible for industry development; and, in the second half of the year, work with his new team to develop SAP's budget. [04 Apr 2008]
UK 'failing on cyber crime'
News Speaking at a conference on law enforcement, organised by Microsoft, Davis contrasted this to the Serious Organised Crime Agency devoting less than two per cent of its staff and one per cent of its budget to fighting e-crime. [03 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment It's a big job - the company has a tech budget of around $300m and 900 full-time IT staff supporting 35,000 employees worldwide. All of this feeds back into the goal to reduce the operational expenditure to capital expenditure ratio of the IT... [01 Apr 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study The council now also has complete visibility of its IT estate, enabling Wright to budget for and carry out software asset management in a much more efficient manner and to monitor its software licensing. [28 Mar 2008]
