cio role
RSS cio roleWhy 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 Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News The work - which followed its sale to Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors - has ended up "costing an awful lot of money and not adding any business value overall", according to JLR CIO Jeremy Vincent. [26 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury. Andrew Wayland, CIO... [23 Oct 2009]
Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
News Don Trotta has left his role as CIO with Barclays and taken a new position with SAP. Trotta is not the only CIO to take leave of Barclays in recent months. The CIO of... [22 Oct 2009]
How can today's CIO make the biggest impact on their organization? Learn more here
White Paper Learn more about the role of today's midmarket CIO and what they are doing to achieve three primary goals -- make innovation real, raise the ROI of IT and expand business impact. Those discussions showed... [21 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News The BBC has appointed a new CIO as part of a restructuring of its broadcast and enterprise technology area within the Future Media & Technology division. As exclusively reported by silicon.com, the corporation's previous... [09 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile As the man with the burden of overseeing the annual public sector IT spend of £16bn, the importance of government CIO John Suffolk cannot be overstated. Suffolk and the CIO Council are working to strip... [30 Sep 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Before being appointed as CIO Kundra had served as CTO for Washington DC, where he was praised for making bureaucratic systems more efficient and transparent and drawing on applications from Google and Apple. [30 Sep 2009]
Bupa in rude health with new CIO
News She succeeds Bupa's previous CIO, John Lister, who left earlier this year after six years with the healthcare provider to take up a role with optician chain Specsavers. Private healthcare company Bupa... [16 Sep 2009]
The Art of Lean Thinking: Influencing the IT Culture
White Paper Drawing on the experience of four IT vice presidents from diverse industries, this ExecBlueprint discusses "lean IT thinking" from multiple perspectives and provides guidance for how today's CTO/CIO can create a more... [09 Sep 2009]
Are your software licences up to date - and does your CFO know?
News Quite who's responsibility it is - whether it's the CFO's or the CIO's - will depend on each individual company but there are definitely things [CFOs] can do," the spokesman said. Needless to say, CFOs need to work with... [04 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News IT graduates are leaving UK universities without the business and technical competencies that employers need, according to silicon.com's CIO Jury. This CIO Jury was: Alastair Behenna,... [02 Sep 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News Andrew Wayland, CIO of recruiter Michael Page International, also believes the tablet is only destined for a supporting role in business. Members of the silicon.com CIO Jury certainly... [13 Aug 2009]
Naked CIO: No outstanding CIOs? Pah!
Comment Why is it so difficult to find a great CIO? Because the business will not support them, says the Naked CIO. The article began with a profound anecdote, in which an executive asks his board whether any of... [10 Aug 2009]
Why it's still tough to find a good CIO
Comment I categorised them into three areas: succession planning covers those situations where the CIO is leaving voluntarily either due to retirement or through taking up another role elsewhere. The supply of... [06 Aug 2009]
