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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment And the great thing is we've got the skills in my team now and we are developing the skills around the business analysis piece - what we in IT would term as business process re-engineering. After that she headed up project delivery for the bank's...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment But like business models of a 1960s/1970s recorded music industry, they're totally out of fashion and not listening to the listeners. We'll still be here when they run out of options, we'll still have the skills they need in depth and we'll still...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes

Comment Equally, when I engage in conversation about strategy and the CFO firmly states that I don't understand the business enough to have an opinion, I'm also expected to bite my lip. So however much you know about the business you'll find it hard to...

Tags: careers, boardroom, stereotypes, board

[07 Apr 2008]

Recession fears hit IT budgets

Comment The most in-demand skills are project managers and "business-savvy technologists". Business demands will continue to want greater agility but quality deliverables and the same or lower cost. Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, said "enhancing...

Tags: cio agenda

[04 Apr 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation

Comment Open source projects can be split into at least three different business models. The most influential reason seems to be that developers seek to enhance their skills and experience. The open source brotherhood prides itself on its collaboration and...

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 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. Certainly I'm very keen that we raise the profile of what we can do as a business both externally and internally.

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty

Comment Staffing, skills, costs and business dynamics are industry issues. This change of mentality has eroded a sense of community in IT and in the business environments servicing IT workers. IT skills shortages are ever increasing.

Tags: recruitment, loyalty, skills, offshoring

[31 Mar 2008]

Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?

Comment Of course the loss of data happens in business too - such as the loss by TK Maxx of 45 million customer credit files. While it is possible to crack some forms of encryption, the effort and skills required make it impractical.

Tags: data protection, companies act, encryption, security

[27 Mar 2008]

You won't get promoted looking like that

Comment Technology specialists are unlikely to be promoted into the senior hierarchy based solely on their technical skills. But how do you move from being seen as the techie in the corner to become the technical guru with the knowledge, vision and...

Tags: image, skills, careers, personal brand

[20 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...

Comment With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in foreign countries, how does the UK police feel it is able to do this? UK 'seriously underestimating' tech skills crisis Trouble is, you can't run a viable business on less!

Tags: vista, skills, nhs, e-crime

[20 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment If he comes across as a maverick in this sometimes conservative IT business, his approach to change is straightforward and disciplined. Cutts replaced the hardware for existing core systems with a view to throwing that hardware away once the new...

Tags: customer service, change management, building society, society

[11 Mar 2008]

How to write a killer CV

Comment If in doubt, remove all references to interpersonal skills or subjective views on your own abilities. A sharp CV really does count, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search - and certain facts matter more than your skills...

Tags: careers, job-hunting, cvs, skills

[17 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: The super 3D body scanner ¦ Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business ¦ Why must IT go green?

Tags: vista, desktops, jobs, music

[06 Dec 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education

Comment They also offer new and very different business opportunities. So we now have the well-educated in the second world offering their tutoring skills online to students in the West. Written at London Heathrow and dispatched from a free wi-fi service...

Tags: skills, e-learning, management, education

[06 Dec 2007]

The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure

Comment At least as important is the fact China's own rapidly growing industries have a huge need for IT skills. Factors such as business process outsourcing (BPO), software as a service (SaaS), service-oriented architectures (SOA), along with the rise...

Tags: saas, software, open source, pricing

[22 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...

Comment Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap' So they want to plug the skills gap ! I've been an IT professional for nearly 20 years, I learnt Cobol, Pascal and others, but I've had to self learn my new skills without any help or assistance.

Tags: skills, vista, mobile

[25 Oct 2007]

How to build an IT department

Comment We all face this issue of how do you coach people out of a business. The other thing for me is a global vision, so I have to have a global team and that has to be represented in my business, so being UK-centric doesn't help.

Tags: redundancy, recruitment, graduate, unilever

[17 Oct 2007]

Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd

Comment Graham Linehan has written a string of popular UK comedy sitcoms, from Father Ted's eccentric group of Catholic priests on Craggy Island, to a grumpy bookstore owner in Black Books - and his most recent endeavour, The IT Crowd, about an IT support...

Tags: channel 4, it crowd, graham linehan

[12 Oct 2007]

Paul Coby

AS Profile A respected statesman and valued spokesman for the CIO community, Paul Coby's much-used mantra is "there are no IT projects, only business projects". Coby also takes an active role in wider industry groups and is chairman of Sita, the airline...

[12 Oct 2007]

Tech can make or break a merger

Comment Continuity: Keep the business moving. Skills Survey 2007Find out the results of this year's Skills Survey: & Ensure that business continuity is absolutely maintained at all costs and that there are no issues with service delivery as a result...

Tags: merger, cios, m&a

[25 Sep 2007]

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