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'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment But this has then freed them up to travel more strategically - to places such as Asia - in order to expand the business. Because it can stand-in for face-to-face meetings and therefore - so the logic goes - cut down on corporate travel and reduce...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities

Comment Neil Hammond, head of IT for British Sugar, said: "Increasingly the business is becoming more mobile, with more international travel. The main business priorities driving IT spend in 2008 are the usual issues of efficiency and cost-cutting but the...

Tags: cio agenda

[18 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment These folks never seem to travel, live, sleep, do business, or serve customers with the stuff they design. And suppose luggage designers had to travel a whole year non-stop with their own luggage, and ditto for the designers of electronic point of...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment Subsequently, he has had extensive experience with multi-channel retailing at Argos, Boots and travel company Gold Medal Travel, before joining Nottingham Building Society. As a result the company found it needed to do a significant amount of work...

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

[11 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

Comment After all, there are very large incentives: to gain access to bank accounts, access to buildings and anonymous travel. ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business...

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks

Comment The ability to travel the world and still kiss the kids goodnight is priceless. Last December I wrote about the economic impact of this convergence and the technical and business disruption that occurs when social media is deployed across the...

Tags: social networking, new media, ipods, tv

[19 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to fight the flab in the IT department

Comment Have you looked at cutting down business travel by using remote working and video conferences, or making environmental issues part of you procurement thinking? Bloated IT systems are an increasingly common problem - companies struggling with IT...

Tags: storage, data, health, green

[30 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...

Comment I live close to London that I could travel in regularly, however I do not travel in often because I am penalised for not having an oyster card, and because I don't travel in often enough I don't want to have an oyster Card with funds stuck on it...

Tags: os, governement, pm, iphone

[15 Nov 2007]

Editor's Blog: Around the world in 80 minutes?

Comment I was at the World Travel Market show yesterday to talk about business travellers and wi-fi - which is why on my first official outing as silicon.com's new editor I was wandering between the stands featuring rain forests and exotic fare set up by...

Tags: web, airport, atlarge, wifi

[14 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 20.07.07

Round-Up If you have to leave the safety of your office, with its warm, familiar vibe and worn but comfy chair, you can find out how to make business travel more bearable by checking out the top business travel tips from silicon.com staffers and our...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[20 Jul 2007]

Mittu Sridhara

CIO Profile Mittu Sridhara is responsible for product strategy and delivery as well as integrating technology acquisitions at Sabre Holdings, which provides IT services to the travel industry and whose own retail brands include Travelocity and lastminute.com.

[06 Jun 2007]

Paul Coby

CIO Profile The crisis in the travel industry, along with the competition from no-frills airlines, left BA "standing over the edge of the precipice", Coby has admitted. Coby's much-used motto is "there are no IT projects, only business projects" and it is an...

[06 Jun 2007]

Gerry Pennell

CIO Profile Pennell quickly rose from director of ICT development and delivery and then IT director for CFS to become CIO of the Co-operative Group - which also includes its grocery stores, travel and pharmacy businesses - in 2005.

[06 Jun 2007]

Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain

Comment Will Sturgeon explains why business travel by train within the UK is a far more beneficial and enjoyable experience than flying, thanks in large part to the installation of wi-fi on many routes. When flying: Time to travel to Heathrow from home...

Tags: wi-fi, gner

[04 Jun 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: There's no workplace like home

Comment Anyone who has the privilege of working from home will not only testify to their greenness - less travel means less carbon - but also improved work-life balance and flexibility. My most recent Upwardly Mobile column dealt with environmental issues...

Tags: teleworking, remote working, home working, upwardly mobile

[17 May 2007]

From CIO to consultant: Top tips for cutting the red tape

Comment Most of the expenses are relatively small amounts for travel, food and entertaining. Welcome to the world of bureaucracy that is the curse of the small business. Here are my top tips for how to beat the red tape, start a business for next to...

Tags: start-up, finance, small business, consulting

[19 Apr 2007]

From CIO to consultant: The first month

Comment Arranged for you by the company travel agent? With the main costs out of the way, it was time to look at the extras, I had to arrange my own travel insurance - back online where I paid £33 for a full year's cover.

Tags: business travel, consultant, cio

[20 Mar 2007]

Fair Wi-fi: Consumers getting raw deal

Fair Wi-fi: Consumers getting raw deal

Comment Though I travel with my laptop, there was no way I was going to pay that sort of money. Hotels are, of course, in the business of making money but there is a fine line between helping the bottom line and extortion.

Tags: good hotel guide, hotel, hotels, wi-fi

[20 Feb 2007]

Leader: Roaming rates - more work needed

Leader The view is that business travel isn't a choice, almost any time it takes place, and businesses are hit harder than most. At the UK Communication Management Association last week, a remark on roaming rates still being too high for UK business...

Tags: data roaming rates, business travel, mobile roaming, t-mobile

[14 Feb 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.02.07

Round-Up And while you're in a business travel frame of mind.any chance we could interest you in a survey? Perhaps while staying in the UK Gates may have come up against the same problem many business travellers encounter at UK hotels - extortionate charges...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[02 Feb 2007]

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