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Tony Mather
CIO Profile Mather joined the FCO from industrial gases company BOC, where he was IM services director for four years. In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment Patrolling the mean streets of London on a Friday evening isn't where you would usually find a CIO but then not many CIOs get to experience front line service in the way the Metropolitan Police Service's director of information management Ailsa... [02 Jun 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment From there she moved on to become CEO of LineOne - and led the sale of the business to Tiscali in 2001 where she remained as managing director until her appointment as CEO. Research conducted by the Cranfield School of Management for Tiscali found... [21 Feb 2008]
Breaking China: Tech trend-spotting in a burgeoning economy
Comment As Pacific Epoch's managing director, Brennan has a bird's-eye view of China's technology economy. But they have few skills in management - they just don't have much experience. In software China has a great chance but here the main issue is... [18 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Can the public sector attract IT high-flyers?
Comment Ian Watmore left his position as UK managing director of Accenture to become the first government-wide CIO in 2004 and was last year promoted to his current permanent secretary role at the Cabinet Office as head of Blair's delivery unit. [20 Apr 2006]
Analysis: How does the CIO become the CEO?
Comment That statistic represented something of a low point in the evolution of the IT director and CIO role, a time when boardrooms lost faith in IT after spending vast amounts on Y2K and anything preceded by an 'e' during the dot-com boom. [06 Jan 2006]
IT consulting: Keys to keeping projects on track
Comment Jonathan Wagstaff, managing director of Connectology Network Services, another infrastructure consultancy, agrees: "It's more useful for creating an audit trail - who's to blame, why did it happen, what happened exactly. [08 Dec 2004]
Can Microsoft deliver on CRM?
Comment Microsoft has got to demonstrate that it has mid-market reach and service delivery capabilities,” says Nick Hewson, managing director of CRM consultancy Hewson Consulting. Microsoft will have an impact on the customer relationship management market. [10 Feb 2004]
Offshoring - a new time and a new place for your IT?
Comment The only limiting factor is size, according to Anthony Miller, research director at Ovum Holway. It began with application development, in cheap overseas code shops, expanding to call centres, application management and full-scale business process... [15 May 2003]
The double life of the CIO
Comment Frank Coyle, IT director at John Menzies, told silicon.com it's simply not possible for CIOs to put day-to-day systems management on auto-pilot, and concentrate on 'greater things'. There is no excuse for chief executives to push all their high... [05 Oct 2000]
