global business 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]
The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence
Comment On top of all that, companies - especially global ones - have varying applications for a particular area of the business, for example CRM. Just because business intelligence sounds impressive and has spawned a whole industry doesn't mean companies... [16 Jun 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 Pascal Emile was appointed global CIO for investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort in April 2007. In this role he has promoted global platforms and processes and internal data exchange as part of an executive agenda based on the two themes of... [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Cathy Holley, partner, Boyden Global Executive Search He previously worked as a director at Harvey Nash and played a key role in growing the business and taking it public. Andy McCue has almost a decade of experience writing about business and... [11 Jun 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile At Unilever Neil Cameron is responsible for a 4,000-strong global IT department responsible for 85,000 desktops and an annual IT budget of around €800m. Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks... [11 Jun 2008]
Toby Redshaw
CIO Profile Toby Redshaw joined global insurance group Aviva as CIO at the beginning of 2008 following six years at mobile phone giant Motorola. He's also worked in Silicon Valley where he helped build up a dotcom business, running international business units... [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]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile What bigger challenge is there after becoming CIO of the world's biggest drinks company Diageo aged just 36, turning around its global IT function and introducing common business processes and a wall-to-wall SAP platform across the group's 180... [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Technology plays an increasingly critical role for mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse as the business moves into the wireless world, and Simon Post has been responsible for successfully steering IT through a two-year period of... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile As a member of the Alliance & Leicester's executive committee, Ian Buchanan has accountability for IT and business change. Buchanan joined the bank more than two years ago and is currently leading a complete transformation of the bank's business... [11 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is the co-author of Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field (BCS 2007) and a director of the National Outsourcing Association. When I was at the conference of Indian tech body Nasscom earlier this year I was stunned... [03 Jun 2008]
Tech innovation goes global
Comment Instead, the hunt for tech has become global, with businesses scouring the world for the latest technology developments to give them that vital edge on the competition. But where to find the latest wonder that can set your business ahead of the... [03 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment He has been in the IT industry for more than 22 years and covers the areas of software development, global sourcing and globalisation issues within Gartner. He is the co-author of a recently published book on India and China called IT & the East... [03 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. The practicalities of managing open source in a business context became clear years ago. [06 May 2008]
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