2007 it management in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment A key development is the management console through which software configurations, digital certificates, policies and software updates can be created and pushed to personal firewalls for each device. One of the main problems with first-generation... [25 Jul 2008]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile Emile then relocated to London in January 2000 working with Dresdner's investment banking division and took on a number of senior positions within IT, including global responsibilities for equity derivatives, risk management, cross-asset products... [11 Jun 2008]
Female CIOs break through glass ceiling
Comment Highest ranked on the list, at number four, is Catherine Doran, director of information management at Network Rail, where she is responsible for an IT budget of almost £140m and defining and building the strategic IT direction for the organisation. [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Arthurs started out as an IT analyst at Beecham Group, then worked his way up the IT career ladder at Safeway over a period of 14 years, moving from an IT project manager role to director of IT programme management, and finally director of IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Tania Howarth
CIO Profile Described by those who know her as a "visible and inspiring IT leader", Howarth's other roles include CIO for Walkers Snack Foods between 1994 and 2003, systems manager at Sun Microsystems Europe in sales and marketing, and various project... [11 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile As well as achieving an MBA at Cranfield School of Management, Didcock holds a Diploma in Marketing and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University. He also led the biggest change programme in the history of the AA, refreshing most... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Thompson
CIO Profile Although he has techie experience in BIS applied systems and project management at CSC, Ian Thompson's career has mainly stayed in the realms of investment banking, with stints at UBS Investment Banking, NatWest Markets and ABN Amro. [11 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile At this point in her career, Hamon undertook an MBA at Bath University specialising in change management. Afterwards she put the training into practice when she joined the Crown Prosecution Service as CIO, overseeing a massive IT-led transformation... [11 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment Whether it's a rather deft bit of marketing by Apple to remove devices from the channel as anticipation builds for the 3G model at the San Francisco Worldwide Developer Conference next month, or a slightly clumsy bit of inventory management, the... [23 May 2008]
SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...
Comment And what that means is we need programme management capability and the business consulting skills which align to the industry. So what it does mean is that managers [at SAS] have to create that healthy tension by reminding everyone that we are... [02 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment The second plank of the IT transformation strategy is portfolio management, which involves more rigorous scrutiny of the business case for projects and adopting best practice. We are investing in projects that have the highest payback and are... [01 Apr 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment On the software side investment is dominated by enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), with just over a third of CIOs spending on both those areas in 2008. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value... [26 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Michael Small, director of security management strategy at Computer Associates, says: "Malice, misuse and mistake. Storage is so cheap that it is almost disposable yet the cost of data breaches is rising significantly. [10 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment Identity theft and sloppy data management are a significant and steadily growing problem. Is it safe? Pandora's box has been opened and no single country is strong enough to close it. It's analogous to the debate on tighter European immigration and... [27 Feb 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment A year back, the focus was on engineering, and this year has seen the launch of a McKinsey study of the fast-growing business of remote infrastructure management (RIM). But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership Forum are emphasising it's much... [18 Feb 2008]
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