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Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Being the biggest in your field - both in terms of market-share and advertising budget - won't stop smaller companies jumping on the bandwagon and gaining recognition from associating with your brand through comparative marketing campaigns. [16 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment It was delivered on time - just - and within budget - well, the client's budget, anyway. 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]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment Azadar Shah, director at remote access firm iPass, says IT departments have become aware of what Gartner calls the 'black budget' of difficult-to-track expense claims for wi-fi connectivity. In the not too distant future, you will be able to add 3G... [12 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather runs the information... [11 Jun 2008]
Heather Jackson
CIO Profile Heather Jackson joined Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in Feb 2000, where she is responsible for a budget of £1bn and has leadership of an internal IT community of more than 5,800 IT professionals across multiple locations worldwide. [11 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile This includes an IT budget of almost £140m, supporting all the tech needs of Network Rail's 17,500 employees spread across 460 locations around the country. As a member of the executive management team at Network Rail, Catherine Doran is... [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Ailsa Beaton - director of information management at the Metropolitan Police Service where she manages the force's IT strategy and £300m tech budget - actually studied chemistry, then opted for a career in accountancy before being lured into the... [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]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile At Unilever Neil Cameron is responsible for a 4,000-strong global IT department responsible for 85,000 desktops and an annual IT budget of around €800m. A key priority during his time there has been the 'One Unilever' programme to streamline... [11 Jun 2008]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile Outsourcing is a mainstay of the Met's IT strategy, with a budget of £300m per year. A chemistry graduate, Beaton switched careers twice - into accountancy first and then to IT. She learned her craft at GE, specialising in the oil industry, but... [11 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment Budget-busting Beeb BBC warned after busting website budget The lack of money-grubbing affiliate links and banal advertising is wholly refreshing. So we started by bemoaning the lack of graduates, then went to preferentially importing immigrants... [05 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Price of panic
Comment Our top line is still strong - 15 per cent year-on-year growth is in line with the budget. But the fear factor has been uncorked and we must do something - even though we should be dealing with real market changes, not panicky speculation. [03 Jun 2008]
Naked CIO: The true cost of IT
Comment This debate might be fuelled by accountants looking for better accountability or by IT professionals frustrated by continued budget constraints in organisations that do not understand the cost of provisioning services to the business. [21 Apr 2008]
Why IT must escape the belt-tightening
Comment Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT that they believe stopping spending money on it will somehow help. [18 Apr 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment The average IT budget last year among CIO Agenda survey respondents was five per cent of company turnover, although that was skewed by one respondent whose tech budget is 24 per cent of company turnover. [18 Apr 2008]
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