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CIO finishing school set to open doors
News City University London is setting up a centre dedicated to training the next generation of CIOs. The centre's creator, Dr Andrew Tuson, head of computing at City University London, told silicon.com:... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: The UK's top CIOs
Photo Glyn Evans, corporate director of business change at Birmingham City Council, features on this year's list. The launch of silicon.com CIO50 2009 - the list of the UK's 50 most influential CIOs - took... [19 Jun 2009]
Skydiving and kendo: What CIOs do when they aren't at work…
News A couple of CIOs have been brave enough to list which football club they support, and as such the silicon.com CIO50 2009 list is happy to welcome an associate director of Lincoln City Football Club and a... [10 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Originally hailing from the City - Steel spent some time working as an assistant director of Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank). A key figure in local government IT, as well as having charge of overall IT strategy at... [03 Jun 2009]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile He is a passionate supporter and associate director of Lincoln City Football Club. Nigel Underwood, former CIO of DHL Logistics, is no stranger to the silicon.com CIO50 - this year marks his third... [03 Jun 2009]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council For the second time in a row, the silicon.com CIO Jury is hung, this time over the issue of preparedness for a UK recession. CIO50 2008: Top 10 The UK's... [04 Aug 2008]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News So, for example, instead of being restricted to sites ending in .com or .org.eBay could have a site that ends in .ebay, or New York City could end its we site with .nyc. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and... [27 Jun 2008]
Euro 2008 blues dents online booze and TV sales
News The index analysts attribute increases in these areas to interest in the premiere of Sex and the City, a film centred around a group of fashion-conscious women in New York. In a statement, Capgemini VP UK consumer... [20 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment This year we decided to celebrate the UK's best IT leadership at a fitting location for the high achievers we had assembled - a reception 40 floors above the City of London at Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower. [19 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment It's damn obvious, it's so that for any crime, they can just go fishing through the database - just hope that you weren't in the database as having been in the city on the wrong day. Readers were also busy commenting on... [12 Jun 2008]
Summer slowdown bad for IT projects
News Steve Williams, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council With many staff on holiday and a general slowdown in the IT supplier industry two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury user panel said good planning is key to... [03 Aug 2007]
Photos: Heathrow's Terminal 5 comes alive
Photo Nick Gaines, business critical systems director for BAA, said the building has a network infrastructure "appropriate for a small city". This is Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 (T5) in all its glory. [13 Jul 2007]
Richard Snooks, CIO, Capital & Regional
Comment Property management isn't a sector that has traditionally relied on the exploitation of technology, with most of the profits coming from astute land and real estate investments by pinstriped City types. [09 Jul 2007]
Are consultants a waste of money?
News Peter Ryder, head of ICT of Preston City Council, said: "Some do an excellent job but perhaps the real question is, should we always be using and spending so much on external consultants who charge a considerable fee... [21 Jun 2007]
