it management in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment I told the Ministry of Justice IT conference at the QEII centre in London last month that all of us need to have more than one career skill available in this business. Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs [17 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Management may find it is pushing against an open door when it comes to implementing sustainability initiatives. It sums up perfectly the approach that an organisation needs to take to understand its requirements and adopt an IT strategy to help... [17 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment It has been increasingly obvious that doing it successfully requires skilled management of contracts. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. It's been a while since my schooldays but it comes as no surprise to... [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment Everything from hospital and office cleanliness to vehicle reliability, from IT services to mobile devices, is harmed by such perversity of process. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. [09 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Real-time data systems enable total flexibility in a lending institution's response to the at-risk portions of its mortgage portfolio and let it be proactive customer by customer. But does it have to be this way? [03 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment But as a study in project management, I have to admit it left a lot to be desired. With his background, it all should have run smoothly but how did the project really fare? It seems like only yesterday I was publishing my New Year resolutions for... [02 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment Here, the general approach is to create a complete stack made up of the operating system, application server and application alongside any dependent software, and use management tools to provision this image as and when required. [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up The report found "two major institutional deficiencies", namely that "information security simply wasn't a management priority as it should have been" and that "HMRC had an organisational design that was unnecessarily complex and crucially, did... [27 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.06.08
Round-Up It’s a good question, your honour, the defence presents exhibit one. It realises that just about every news organisation in the world has been dedicating an unfeasible amount of column inches - or pixels if you like your news online - to the 3G... [13 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]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Although it has some management features for large corporates, for the end user it has few if any obvious benefits and many drawbacks: it is generally slower, has an unfamiliar and often inconsistent interface and appears to be less stable than... [12 Jun 2008]
Yvonne Gallagher
CIO Profile Here she held many senior management roles in broader business operations, strategy and marketing as well as IT. As CIO for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Yvonne Gallagher is responsible for leading the MoJ's IT and information strategy, for the... [11 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]
Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile Yasmin Jetha was appointed CIO for the Financial Times (FT) in January 2006, where she is responsible for IT services, as well as procurement and purchasing functions. Her main role is to ensure the FT.com website is available 24/7 and to maintain... [11 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather runs the information... [11 Jun 2008]
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