arts in comment and analysis
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment Taylor, a liberal arts graduate with a masters in English Literature started his IT career at British Airways before spending a decade at Mars including 18 months in the US. A Mars a day may help you work, rest and play - as the old ad for the... [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment A few of the CIOs on the CIO50 2008 list even have - shock horror - liberal arts backgrounds. Martin Taylor, group CIO at clearing house LCH.Clearnet is an arts graduate with a masters in English Literature but then started his wide and varied... [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor does not have a typical tech background - he's an arts graduate with a masters in English Literature. Martin Taylor took on the group CIO role at clearing-house LCH.Clearnet at the start of last year, after filling the interim post for six... [11 Jun 2008]
Avoiding the next Northern Rock
Comment This is where banking business operations can learn major lessons from the mystical arts of good project and risk management practice. The banking and finance sector can take months to spot that things are going wrong. [15 Oct 2007]
Brampton Factor: CIO ideology
Comment While I have argued for IT being significantly creative, its outlook is still more akin to science than the arts. CIOs and IT directors are typically concerned with how an organisation carries out its business goals - not in debating whether those... [16 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.01.07
Round-Up Putting that into jaw-dropping perspective, IT grads suffer even higher rates of unemployment than history students, who in the Round-Up's opinion have the most pointless degree this side of media studies, or - worse still - performing arts. [05 Jan 2007]
Leader: Closing the skills gap
Leader Despite this skills shortage it was surprising to learn this week that IT graduates have the highest unemployment rates of university leavers across all degree subjects - including performing arts and media studies. [04 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.10.06
Round-Up We're not sure in which sport he is professional - the video includes him playing tennis, doing martial arts and dancing. The Round-Up is sure we've all applied for jobs at one time or other and put checks in place to make sure our applications... [13 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.06.06
Round-Up No of course you haven't but that hasn't stopped a bunch of students from Central St Martins taking this as their design brief and coming up with an array of 'challenging' designs which give us a glimpse of exactly why so many people have issues... [16 Jun 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Fringe benefits
Comment However, one of its most significant ties with the city of its birth remains the provision of internet services to the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival - the largest arts festival in the world. Apologies firstly for the fact it's been a while since... [01 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.07.04
Round-Up Actually the university has had the rather nifty idea of offering an iTunes-themed website where, in addition to music, students can download course information - including an academic calendar and pre-recorded lectures - which beggars the... [23 Jul 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Apple's rebirth
Comment The company has long been strong in the media, publishing and creative arts, as well as education, of course. Forget the success of iTunes or even the iPod. The lesson to take from Apple is all about an organisation and leader that can learn from... [22 Apr 2004]
Devil's Advocate: IT, culture and change
Comment It was C P Snow who coined the phrase 'Two Cultures' in relation to science and the arts. Some basic assumptions about the ways we organise out businesses and society are being challenged right now. And that can make us uncomfortable, says Martin... [13 Apr 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Concorde and conferencing, that IPR retreat and Xbox lessons
Comment These works - intellectual property - are expanding the bounds of science and technology and enriching the world of the arts. Last month saw the final flight of Concorde as declining bookings made its operation economical and British Airways... [10 Nov 2003]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Making a stand
Comment This year, Korean martial arts experts, a Malaysian puppet show and futuristic demos of tech in cars and in the home did a lot to pull in the punters. This column was started as a way to comment on what IT and comms vendors are trying to say in... [15 Oct 2003]
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