consultancy in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment For a full summary of the consultancy's activities, see www.quocirca.com. But next-generation IPsec VPNs are changing all that, says Fran Howarth. Over the past 40 years or so, the way IT has been delivered to end users has changed dramatically. [25 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up And it poses a security risk for businesses, piped up David Porter, head of security and risk at tech consultancy, Detica. The Round-Up tries not to make a habit of getting caught with its pants down but this week's laughs are brought to you from... [20 Jun 2008]
Paul Greenwood
CIO Profile He also worked at strategy consultancy McKinsey & Company, where he was responsible for research, information and knowledge management in the UK and had a team of 100 analysts, researchers and developers. [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile From there, he went on to set up his own venture capital consultancy and advisor business with two partners in the midst of the internet bubble, and joined lastminute.com as CTO, up to its sale to Sabre/Travelocity. [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Her earlier career includes spells at Norman Broadbent International and Whitehead Mann's CIO practice, as well as 10 years at IBM in sales, IT consultancy and marketing. The silicon.com CIO50 2008 list was compiled using the votes of 25 CIOs and... [11 Jun 2008]
Ben Wishart
CIO Profile Wishart has 20 years of experience across management, sales, marketing, consultancy and IT for the likes of American Express, Capgemini and Tesco. For the last four years as change and information director of Whitbread, Ben Wishart has embraced a... [11 Jun 2008]
David Lister
CIO Profile A spell in management consultancy at Coopers & Lybrand followed, before joining Guinness where he spent 10 years in senior IT roles, including two-and-a-half years in Seville where he had to learn Spanish. [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile His early career was spent in consultancy and systems development within the oil and drinks industries, working for BP and Diageo. As a member of the Alliance & Leicester's executive committee, Ian Buchanan has accountability for IT and business... [11 Jun 2008]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile She learned her craft at GE, specialising in the oil industry, but went over to consultancy at PA where she spent 11 years, focusing primarily in public sector and health projects. Ailsa Beaton's career path to becoming IT chief at the Metropolitan... [11 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment He has worked in IT since graduating in 1975, in a range of software, consultancy and internet-based businesses. Here are the judges. Jo Best is the award-winning news editor of ZDNet Australia and a former senior reporter on silicon.com in London. [03 Jun 2008]
Vodafone chief's departure is a sign of the times
Comment Research out earlier this year by change management consultancy company Egrement suggests the CEO role itself is changing - a sort of CEO 2.0 is emerging - as average tenures shrink, chief executive churn increases and younger figureheads than... [29 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also... [17 Apr 2008]
How will your deal weather a downturn?
Comment Economic forecasts by consultancy Capital Economics suggest the UK is set for a worse downturn than the US. What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go... [10 Apr 2008]
Vendors hype up compliance fears
Comment And Phil Huggins, CTO of security consultancy IRM, thinks the DPA will become more of an issue as the 2006 Companies Act begins to impact operations. Compliance. The word strikes fear into the heart of even the hardened executive. [08 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment At the heart of the debate lies the disparity between the box-tickers, who do just enough to satisfy the regulators, and those who put in extra effort, says Mark Lobel, principal in advisory services at consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers. [28 Mar 2008]
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