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Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Power efficiency is simply a subset of a much more important target: the blending of sustainability into the DNA of a business. It sums up perfectly the approach that an organisation needs to take to understand its requirements and adopt an IT... [17 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail
Comment The big challenge for the Letters business - which handles 84 million items each night - is increased automation for better efficiency, and increased supply chain visibility to both track items and underpin new customer services. [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Cost cutting remains a key focus for Cameron, who has set aggressive efficiency targets for his department over the next year. At Unilever Neil Cameron is responsible for a 4,000-strong global IT department responsible for 85,000 desktops and an... [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile One of Steel's big challenges now - as with his public sector peers - is dealing with ever-tightening IT budgets and the wider efficiency agenda. Steel has just been elected president of the public sector IT managers association, Socitm, and will... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile Buchanan joined the bank more than two years ago and is currently leading a complete transformation of the bank's business operations and technology with the aim of increasing customer focus, enabling faster growth in direct channels and... [11 Jun 2008]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile The ongoing efficiency drive means there is also a big emphasis on shared services across government departments and, under Suffolk's guidance, the Cabinet Office has recently embraced shared back-office services. [11 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Coming soon - our list of the UK's top CIOs
Comment From my experience I'd say few other executives have so much opportunity to improve the fortunes of their business as CIOs, whether it is by increasing efficiency or opening up new routes to market. Here at silicon.com we spend a lot of time... [30 May 2008]
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment Improved efficiency, new services, access to legacy apps - the advantages of service-oriented architecture seem endless. These legacy applications were never designed to be accessed in this manner and so lack a security model to address external... [20 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy
Comment In the end efficiency and effectiveness must trump control as a rationale for implementing processes for IT functions. In my organisation I have tried to do this in little chunks, again sometimes with success and sometimes with failure. [12 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment Businesses enable remote working because they expect it to improve efficiency, increase customer and employee satisfaction and keep down costs. In general terms, financial services organisations turn out to be the most distributed and public sector... [24 Apr 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment Tech budgets will remain flat or fall in 2008 for most organisations as they focus on cost cutting and efficiency initiatives, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey. The main business priorities driving IT spend in 2008 are... [18 Apr 2008]
Centralised or decentralised IT?
Comment Pool software developers and save money, or disperse them to business units and improve efficiency? Several major organisations in financial services, logistics, telecommunications and software have adopted the model. [09 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?
Comment Yet I believe passionately that outsourcing and offshoring can neither save money nor improve efficiency. Never outsource a problem - it does little to solve efficiency. I freely admit I have little evidence to support that view and persuade those... [10 Mar 2008]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment So it's in many ways fulfilling the promise of the internet by creating efficiency and allowing anybody to participate in the global economy no matter where they are or where they live. Online business network, LinkedIn has almost 20 million... [28 Feb 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment Many an executive has assessed IT departmental efficiency based on whether or not they are receiving emails on their BlackBerry. Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. Not only it is important that mobile workers and... [21 Feb 2008]
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