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Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Consulting giant Accenture has become a keen adopter of telepresence technology. 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 you a... [30 Jun 2008]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile Although he started out his career at ICL in software engineering, Lovell-Read has risen to the role of CIO without going through the traditional IT department route and he spent 17 years at HP in a number of senior management posts, rising to... [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment She eventually made the step to CIO after 11 years in consulting with PA Consulting. Being a techie isn't necessarily the best route to the top of the IT tree, with most CIOs on the silicon.com CIO50 2008 list starting out in non-tech backgrounds. [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile Beighton spent 10 years with Capgemini, running its technology consulting. Before joining Teletext, Beighton has had a long career in IT, although he started his career at British Steel, within his home city of Sheffield. [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile Between 1984 and 1997, he worked as a consultant at both outsourcing giant Accenture and management consulting firm McKinsey. Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment provider Man Group, where he looks after IT operations in offices... [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. His early career included a spell in consulting and he was a partner at Arthur Andersen responsible for running its global... [11 Jun 2008]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile He then moved on to consulting on trading-floor systems in investment banking, working with more than 20 major financial institutions. Rorie Devine has just left Betfair, where he helped transform the online betting exchange's technology team... [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile Before joining Astra, Williams worked at audit and consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand where he led a number of IT strategy and application development programmes working with various pharmaceutical and consumer companies. [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Frick
CIO Profile Prior to that Frick was COO at Dublin-based business-to-business internet banking service factor-e, which he joined after four years at Andersen Consulting in Munich working on direct banking projects. [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor took time out from being a CIO in 2001 for a mixture of work that included personal investment, consulting to Microsoft founder Paul Allen's European private equity business, and a non-executive position on the UK government's police and... [11 Jun 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. Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the UK three months ago and has been busy putting his stamp on the... [02 Apr 2008]
It's time Indian IT took the lead
Comment India was a significant player, suggested Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and COO of Mindtree Consulting, but not the new leader. India's booming tech industry seems acutely aware of the problems it faces - conservatism, social exclusion, lack of... [20 Feb 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment His theme - identifying and defining the impact of his three key moves in acquiring Integris, Mummert Consulting and now Xansa. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. But speakers at this year's Nasscom Leadership... [18 Feb 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment The argument for the rest to follow is now compelling, argues Steve Boyle of Sutherland Consulting. Steve Boyle is chief executive officer at Sutherland Consulting. In the past five years there has been growing recognition across the global... [04 Feb 2008]
How to write a killer CV
Comment If you are considering very diverse roles, for example, CIO versus partner in a consulting firm, you may need two CVs. Thinking of changing jobs? A sharp CV really does count, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search - and... [17 Jan 2008]
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