global business management in comment and analysis
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Although the effects of the global sub-prime lending crisis were seen as likely to bite the UK housing market, there has been very little clear evidence of the depth and breadth of the problem - until now. [03 Jul 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment These include AT&T's Global Network Client, iPass' Mobile Office and Orange Business Services' Business Everywhere. High-speed wireless networks are meant to make life easier for business travellers. In fact, the biggest challenge for business... [12 Jun 2008]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile After BIP was acquired by Dresdner Bank, he joined the business management group to work on a complete re-engineering of the bank's infrastructure to facilitate the implementation of a new strategic direction. [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks & Spencer in 1987 and rose up the ladder to become CIO for the retailer's US business where he led a major change programme, replacing all their core systems. [11 Jun 2008]
David Lister
CIO Profile Before RBS, Lister spent almost four years at Reuters, driving the company's 'Fast Forward' transformation programme, putting in place a global tech platform and cutting IT costs and his work there is clearly done. [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?
Comment But that's not how it looks from my position as a relatively new CIO of a global and complex business environment. I know I'm leaving myself open to criticism from open source loving technologists but as a CIO you need to look at these debates from... [06 May 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment Consolidation of IT applications helps with IT operating expenses, global business processes and helps improve cycle times," he says. The second plank of the IT transformation strategy is portfolio management, which involves more rigorous scrutiny... [01 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment David Cole, academy team leader and senior consultant at risk management consultancy DNV IT Global Services, thinks he has the answer. If security is to be reflected in operational processes, then it resonates through everything, from change... [28 Mar 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment A year back, the focus was on engineering, and this year has seen the launch of a McKinsey study of the fast-growing business of remote infrastructure management (RIM). This was all about a determined corporate vision, global in its reach... [18 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday
Comment This year's crop of contenders for your eyeballs includes more than a handful of femtocell vendors, plus makers of blogging tools, video apps, audio 'solutions', cameraphone tools, multimedia management apps, iPhone-inspired touchscreen... [10 Feb 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment Global companies have understood for years that managing the complexities of running a global IT organisation is hard - without needing to become experts on real estate, infrastructure management and security at the same time. [04 Feb 2008]
How to write a killer CV
Comment A sharp CV really does count, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search - and certain facts matter more than your skills at tortoise husbandry. Management of very large budgets [17 Jan 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment Deloitte's 2007 Global Security Survey of 196 financial services firms across the world found only one in six banks encrypted data when it was stored. Access and identity management leaped to the top of the five most important security initiatives... [24 Dec 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment So businesses are increasingly turning to co-location providers that will house such applications in highly resilient, purpose-built data centres and in many cases provide IT management services either directly or through third-party specialists. [02 Nov 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment The company has many global business relationships including ViaSat, 3, and Hutchinson Whampoa, which sells its handsets with the Slingbox application through the likes of Dixons pre-installed on Symbian-based handsets as well as reselling the... [24 Oct 2007]
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