business skills in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment And if you've still got time why not take the silicon.com skills survey. The first thing we do is take soundings from dozens of CIOs to build up a long list of who they think are the best business and technology leaders in the UK, which our expert... [19 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence But can a resolution be found that suits everyone, asks lawyer Neville Cordell. The European Commission is to consult on changes to the copyright levy, a surcharge... [18 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
Comment The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence Written at home after a sleepless night thinking about real risks and dispatched via my home LAN. Without revealing what I did or how and where I did it, I have to... [18 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment His current role at clearing house LCH.Clearnet is a case in point for demonstrating his turnaround skills. The organisation's key IT supplier is HP, along with PA Consulting for programme management skills. [17 Jun 2008]
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence While at the other end would be those suppliers - such as traditional ERP vendors - offering contractually bespoke, complex, proprietary systems carefully aligned... [16 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence
Comment The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing Just because business intelligence sounds impressive and has spawned a whole industry doesn't mean companies know what it's really for, says the Naked CIO. [16 Jun 2008]
Yvonne Gallagher
CIO Profile She is also a member of the Government IT Skills and Academy Group focusing on identifying how to attract and retain IT staff and develop IT capability. Gallagher is also a major contributor to the wider Whitehall agenda together with colleagues on... [11 Jun 2008]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile Coby is also chairman of Sita, the airline industry IT body, and chairman of the CIO board for IT industry skills group e-Skills UK. Coby's oft-used motto is "there are no IT projects, only business projects" and it is an approach that has proved... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail
Comment Dargue explains: "So, for example, you need to upweight your project management skills, you need to upweight your architecting skills, you need to upweight your information security skills. So a lot of the change we've got going on at the moment is... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Externally Cameron is also a member of the board of IT industry skills body e-Skills UK, the Research Board and he has recently joined HP's global advisory board. Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined... [11 Jun 2008]
Tania Howarth
CIO Profile Prior to joining Birds Eye Iglo Group, Howarth was CIO for Coca Cola Europe and Africa for four years, where she successfully changed the profile of IT within the business by developing more business-focused skills among the IT team there. [11 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile I think it's a good match in terms of the skills I bring and the opportunities they want to see. Claire Hamon joined the construction and building maintenance company Rok Group in August 2007, with responsibility for developing an information... [11 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment What really matters when it comes to chosing an overseas location for your technology - skills, food, buildings, climate? Criteria such as education, language skills, availability of talent, government support, and intellectual property protection... [03 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Price of panic
Comment Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… ¦ Video: CIO Agenda 2008 ¦ Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing ¦ Naked CIO: The true cost of IT ¦ Why IT must escape the belt-tightening ¦ Cost-cutting tops CIO... [03 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing
Comment This decision will increase the fears of UK IT workers who - as demonstrated by the reaction to previous articles on employment skills and loyalty - clearly already feel that outsourcing and offshoring have turned them into second-class citizens. [27 May 2008]
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