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Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Consumers will undertake their own background research before making informed decisions. Owning a trademark no longer means you're the only one who can use it. A major European ruling involving mobile operators O2 and 3 has big implications for... [16 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment With his background, it all should have run smoothly but how did the project really fare? Having decided last year to stop being a CIO and start his own business, Mike Barrett has just finished his first major project. [02 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment But soon the technology falls away into the background and you don't notice it any more. Costs, delays and green issues are all conspiring against business travel. Those factors are also coinciding with the growth of the very tech that could spare... [30 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment You can tell how high up we were because the top of the Gherkin is visible in the background! CIOs: high-fliers or heads in the clouds? Last week both these terms would have been entirely accurate at the launch of the annual silicon.com CIO50 list. [19 Jun 2008]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile That background has given him a rare mix of leadership capabilities and a proven track record in strategy, business transformation, change management, sales, marketing, consulting, project management and business development. [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Almost half of the 50 CIOs on the list revealed their educational background and a crude analysis of those shows only a third studied a computer science or related degree at university. Even for those with a software engineering background, the... [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Post's consulting background has exposed him to a huge variety of different industries and large, challenging roles. Technology plays an increasingly critical role for mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse as the business moves into the... [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]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile Hamon brings a solid technical background to the CIO role, having studied computing at the London Computer Electronic School and cut her teeth as a programmer. Despite her technical background, Hamon stresses the importance of speaking the language... [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?
Comment As a CIO with a background in mixed environments - and who still manages one - I can say with certainty that maintaining and developing in a cohesive open source environment is complex, costly and ineffective, except in those areas mentioned where... [06 May 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment With an educational background in computer science he went on to become global CIO for logistics company DHL and then CIO for Lenovo Group where he helped lead the initial stages of the $11bn spin-off from IBM in 2005. [01 Apr 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a decade's experience in the technology industry, becoming general manager UK and VP marketing Europe for AOL Bertelsmann/Compuserve Information... [21 Feb 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment Brame provided an interesting background to the protectionist themes emerging in the US presidential primary debates. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership Forum are... [18 Feb 2008]
From CIO to consultant: One year on
Comment That sounds great from a financial perspective but leaves no time for developing the business, being able to carry out any research or even to do the boring background work like invoicing and accounting. [14 Jan 2008]
Why must IT go green?
Comment Gigantic centralised data centres cannot get sufficient juice from the electricity network; millions of computers burn up processor power performing background processes while their users are in the pub; forests of emails, memos and presentations... [03 Dec 2007]
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