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Does your business really need an office?
Comment Nicholas Ridley, managing director of NCRE Consulting and former president of the British Council of Offices, is an expert in workplace environments. Their new offices would be at homes and in connected 'third places',... [17 Nov 2009]
Parking in the West End goes contactless
News The three-month pilot, which is being conducted by Westminster City Council, will see around 20 parking meters equipped with the contactless readers. Photo credit: Westminster City... [29 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council 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... [23 Oct 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council According to silicon.com's CIO Jury, the release late last month of Apple's latest OS, Snow Leopard, won't signal the company's entry into the business... [21 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Bosses at Portsmouth City Council are banning Facebook after discovering their staff spent, on average, 400 hours on the site every month. With 4,500 staff at the council this amounts... [04 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Rob Neil, head of ICT and customer services, Ashford Borough Council Only four of the 12 IT chiefs said they feel tech graduates are... [02 Sep 2009]
Westminster Dashboard for Child Protection Reduces Monitoring Time to Seconds
White Paper Westminster City Council has a national reputation in the United Kingdom for innovation in delivering services to a diverse community in central London. Following a successful pilot programme, the... [01 Sep 2009]
Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%
White Paper Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. Greven... [28 Aug 2009]
Glenorchy City Council Makes "Ideas Happen" With HP Server-Storage Virtualisation Solution
White Paper Glenorchy is Tasmania wanted to improve the IT infrastructure support needed by GCC's 300 employees and gain improved flexibility, reliability and performance. The challenge was to streamline the mix of aging and disparate technologies... [28 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Indication of a possible shift in public bodies' attitudes to offshoring came last week, however, as the British Council announced that IT jobs could move to India. Jos Creese, who sits on the government's CIO... [03 Aug 2009]
Heat wave? No sweat for CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council The latest silicon.com CIO Jury poll asked tech chiefs whether they'd taken any extra steps to protect their technology infrastructure during this week's... [03 Jul 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 Many of course are also involved with industry associations such as the British Computer Society, Socitm and the government CIO council - as well as silicon.com's very own CIO Jury, of course. A couple of CIOs have been... [10 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Twice featured in the CIO50, Steel is also helping his council meet the challenge of regenerating the London borough in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games. Originally hailing from the City - Steel... [03 Jun 2009]
Jos Creese
CIO Profile His time at Hampshire County Council was interrupted by a short spell at Southampton City Council. Jos Creese became Hampshire County Council's head of IT in 2002,... [02 Jun 2009]
