career development
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News The interesting thing about this [apprenticeship scheme] is it actually makes IT more of an interesting career for people who might not normally think that. He said: "We've combined the objectives with a sub-regional development agency - the Black... [23 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment I told the Ministry of Justice IT conference at the QEII centre in London last month that all of us need to have more than one career skill available in this business. Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia... [17 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment If you're expecting me to explain how I deployed my years of experience in product development and project management to deliver the smoothest project of my career, you should look away now. Having decided last year to stop being a CIO and start... [02 Jul 2008]
Design as a Minority Discipline in a Software Company: Understanding a Community of Practice
White Paper Designers are an example of a minority discipline - that is, a discipline whose members are often isolated in their work teams among coworkers with different training, backgrounds, and career paths. This paper describes the participatory analysis... [01 Jul 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News Research released today by a career development charity CRAC has found students' main reason for avoiding going into IT is a perception the work will be dull, dull, dull. Yet the vast majority of the nearly 2,000 students surveyed believe IT offers... [23 Jun 2008]
Will staff 'Right to Train' boost skills?
News However there's some evidence the market is realising the importance of techie career development, according to InterQuest's Bevan, who said IT training is more valued than it used to be and budgets are being specifically targeted towards IT as... [19 Jun 2008]
Heather Jackson
CIO Profile Since graduating in History from Oxford University, Jackson's early working career involved a short time as a trainee accountant before moving into the more forward facing IT sector working for five years for a variety of tech companies including... [11 Jun 2008]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile Angwin started his career in 1981 as a trainee with BT. In 1995, he joined Safeway as director of business services moving across to director of business IT development. As group CIO Rod Angwin is responsible for IT across Wolseley Group. [11 Jun 2008]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile Although he started out his career at ICL in software engineering, Lovell-Read has risen to the role of CIO without going through the traditional IT department route and he spent 17 years at HP in a number of senior management posts, rising to... [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Brinley Platts is a leading IT executive coach, researcher, author and creator of the authoritative CIO 'role-types' model of IT executive career development. He is an authority on CIO career development and performance and has helped scores of... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile Before joining Teletext, Beighton has had a long career in IT, although he started his career at British Steel, within his home city of Sheffield. He went on to work for The Instruction Set, a Unix development house, then Hoskyns, followed by... [11 Jun 2008]
Steve Chambers
CIO Profile He has worked on the supplier side in the payments sectors for most of his career and has developed skills in IT, marketing and sales along the way As CIO, Steve Chambers has been responsible for Visa Europe's regional data centre as well as... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile His early career was in engineering with Esso Petroleum. Before arriving at Homeserve, Trevor Didcock was CIO at the AA for four years and a member of the executive team responsible for the highly successful private equity backed development and... [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile His early career included a spell in consulting and he was a partner at Arthur Andersen responsible for running its global ebusiness and advanced technology teams. One big development in the last year was the signing of a $200m deal with Indian IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile His early career was spent in consultancy and systems development within the oil and drinks industries, working for BP and Diageo. His strategy involves the development of new customer-facing channel technology and the replacement of legacy core... [11 Jun 2008]
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