systems in comment and analysis
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment These shifts will change the way organisations choose and pay for systems, says Corporate IT Forum research head Ollie Ross. At one end of the supplier spectrum would be companies offering one-stop-shop hosted systems that are quick to deploy... [16 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence
Comment What's worse, our collective incompetence at making systems and applications work properly has spawned an entire industry of business intelligence software. It is a result of a workaround to systems and applications not doing what they were... [16 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment I mean ignition systems, pumps and motors, microwave ovens and other devices operating in, or close to, the wi-fi band, including some cordless phones. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. [13 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment O is for Operating systems High-speed wireless networks are meant to make life easier for business travellers. But now the problem for mobile workers is how to tap into all that increased connectivity, says George Malim. [12 Jun 2008]
Graham Young
CIO Profile Prior to Foster + Partners, Young worked for the Atkins Group over 20 years in a number of senior roles including head of IS for Atkins Rail, infrastructure operations manager and corporate systems director before being promoted to group systems... [11 Jun 2008]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile His main task has been integrating the systems of the 13 individual companies that were combined to make the organisation eight years ago. In his first move into the public sector Phil Pavitt was appointed as Group CIO for Transport for London (TfL... [11 Jun 2008]
Heather Jackson
CIO Profile She worked in IT for Burton Group where she was involved in the end-to-end redevelopment of key business systems, for George at ASDA as IT director, for Boots the chemist within IT development, and for Capital One as UK IT director. [11 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Prior to BT Doran was European CIO at Capital One and head of retail information systems at NatWest. As a member of the executive management team at Network Rail, Catherine Doran is responsible for a huge, complex IT operation in a high profile and... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail
Comment Firstly he is group CIO for the Royal Mail Group - which includes General Logistics Systems, Parcelforce, Post Office Ltd and Royal Mail Letters. There is also a big project to replace what Dargue calls the Royal Mail Group's "antiquated" HR... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile After university studying a computing and operational research degree, he joined NCR in the early days of Unix as a systems engineer. Before joining Teletext, Beighton has had a long career in IT, although he started his career at British Steel... [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile Before joining Man, Wright was managing director for systems at Fidelity International and for eight years before that was group IT director at the Willis Group. Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment provider Man Group, where he... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks & Spencer in 1987 and rose up the ladder to become CIO for the retailer's US business where he led a major change programme, replacing all their core systems. [11 Jun 2008]
Steve Chambers
CIO Profile As CIO, Steve Chambers has been responsible for Visa Europe's regional data centre as well as continuing the development of numerous systems and delivering a new payments architecture. Chambers has also worked to establish a customer service... [11 Jun 2008]
Tania Howarth
CIO Profile Tania Howarth took over as CIO of Birds Eye Iglo Group in April 2007 with a remit to build a completely new greenfield systems platform and IT team after the company was sold off to private equity group Permira for €1.7bn by Unilever. [11 Jun 2008]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Outside of Virgin, the Cambridge-educated Lewis is a non-executive director of mobile services software supplier Elata, a member of the customer advisory board for Tideway Systems and a board member of the Telecommunications Management Forum. [11 Jun 2008]
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