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Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment Owning a trademark no longer means you're the only one who can use it. Its award-winning technology, media and commercial practice employs 70 partners specialising in IT, telecomms, media, sport and IP law. [16 Jul 2008]
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 Just because business intelligence sounds impressive and has spawned a whole industry doesn't mean companies know what it's really for, says the Naked CIO. It is a result of a workaround to systems and applications not doing what they were supposed... [16 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment But the less appealing side of the story is that you probably won't know what is available, how well it will work and how much it will cost until you get there," he adds. As broadband becomes pervasive, so have business travellers' expectations... [12 Jun 2008]
Pascal Emile
CIO Profile Emile then relocated to London in January 2000 working with Dresdner's investment banking division and took on a number of senior positions within IT, including global responsibilities for equity derivatives, risk management, cross-asset products... [11 Jun 2008]
Nigel Underwood
CIO Profile Following the acquisition, Underwood was charged with integrating the IT of the two companies, which should now be nearing completion. He has a strong track record of delivering with this kind of integration project, having done the same at Exel... [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Cathy Holley, partner, Boyden Global Executive Search Cathy Holley is a partner with executive search company Boyden, focusing on placing CIOs and senior IT executives across a broad range of sectors. [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. Externally Cameron is also a member of the board of IT industry skills body e-Skills UK... [11 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment provider Man Group, where he looks after IT operations in offices across the globe. Before joining Man, Wright was managing director for systems at Fidelity International and for eight years... [11 Jun 2008]
Michel Khan
CIO Profile Michel Khan has headed up the IT of this eye-care retailer for the last 12 years. Before joining Specsavers, he was IT director at duty free retailer Allders International. Global reach has become a focus at his present company, which expanded into... [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. At Motorola, among other things, he dealt with IT architecture, ebusiness, in-house collaboration and data... [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]
Lesley Hume
CIO Profile There she led a technology refresh across Africa, where she had significant involvement with the group's global IT leadership team. As group IS director of Atkins Lesley Hume has made a name for herself for both developing the engineering group's... [11 Jun 2008]
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