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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 little as five years, Cambridge...
[28 Sep 2006]
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]
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]
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 - joined by the wider tech...
[07 Aug 2006]
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]
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]
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]
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 industry, according to John Higgins...
[08 Dec 2004]
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 non-technical business background to...
[08 Dec 2004]
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]
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 new column by Jonathan Steel...
[10 Nov 2004]
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 come under the spotlight...
[06 Oct 2004]
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 comments at the silicon.com CIO Forum last week...
[04 Oct 2004]
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 technology rather than to...
[01 Oct 2004]
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 considerable dissatisfaction...
[01 Oct 2004]
Leader Does it stand for, as Rene Carayol said, 'career is over'? As the dust settles on the silicon.com CIO Forum held at the beginning of this week it starts to get easier to draw some conclusions from the event and to see what really matters to CIOs...
[30 Sep 2004]
News Some strong arguments in favour of the motion were put forward by former CIO, author and broadcaster Rene Carayol who put the blame at the door of both the IT vendors and ineffective CIOs. 29.09.1999: IT managers are becoming increasingly...
[29 Sep 2004]
News The decision-making process within too many company IT departments, as seen by René Carayol, ex-CIO, broadcaster and silicon.com columnist. René Carayol laments the numbers making it from the IT department into roles such as CIO.
[29 Sep 2004]
News Rene Carayol, former CIO of IPC Media and silicon.com columnist, said: "We are looking at a talent outflux not an influx. Carayol said many youngsters "are opting for jobs in finance over IT and I can't think of a more damning indictment on the...
[28 Sep 2004]
News Author, broadcaster and former CIO Rene Carayol put forward the case for the prosecution, arguing that the boardrooms of UK businesses have lost faith in IT. Carayol argued that a large proportion of IT spend is spent putting right what should have...
[27 Sep 2004]
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