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David Lister
CIO Profile The role carries the title chief architect for RBS' group manufacturing unit, which provides centralised back-office services including IT for the banking group's many brands such as Churchill, Direct Line and NatWest. [11 Jun 2008]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile He started his varied IT career at British Airways in 1976 and then spent a decade at Mars during the 1980s - including a stint on its legendary management training scheme, and a year in the US - where he drove materials resource planning-enabled... [11 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment In it he outlined how Apple was improving its manufacturing process to become more environmentally friendly. Apple's change of name in January from Apple Computer to Apple Inc also highlighted the company's growing focus on product families other... [21 Dec 2007]
The rise of the 'Brics'
Comment The combination of these four countries in a theoretical trading bloc would offer expertise in manufacturing and services, along with valuable natural resources such as oil and gas. Within IT services the companies from the Brics region are rapidly... [18 Dec 2007]
CIO power
AS Analysis Coby continues to adhere to his mantra of there being "no IT projects, only business projects" and is currently overseeing the tech infrastructure behind the new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport and introducing lean manufacturing principles... [12 Oct 2007]
Bigger is not always better
Comment In 1928, Ford Motor Company built a massive manufacturing facility on the shores of the River Rouge in Dearborn, Michigan. A tougher regulatory environment means banks are playing it safe with their IT. [02 Oct 2007]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment They outsource it to a company called TAL Apparel based in Hong Kong with operations in six different countries, all of which use the Lawson M3 manufacturing product. Fashion and retailing is one of the vertical sectors Lawson is strong in and the... [01 Oct 2007]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment Apple's recent and well publicised move to green computing follows a dogged PR war against the company's policy on green manufacturing and recycling. An open letter from Jobs entitled 'A Greener Apple' set out the company's green agenda on... [23 Aug 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment Intel has committed to building Classmates in Brazil, while OLPC has yet to develop any plans for manufacturing outside Taiwan. Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of... [17 Jul 2007]
Jon Granville
CIO Profile That experience covers a range of disciplines and industries including manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, internet and retail. During the past four years with the Body Shop International, Granville has been responsible for the deployment of a... [06 Jun 2007]
Richard Rundle
CIO Profile Rundle has a wide range of experience in people management, engineering and logistics across the manufacturing, distribution and retail sectors and he has held a number of board-level and director positions during his career at Unigate, Wincanton... [06 Jun 2007]
Martin Taylor
CIO Profile Taylor started his varied IT career at British Airways in 1976 and then spent a decade at Mars during the 1980s - including a year in the US - where he drove materials resource planning-enabled change at the company's US manufacturing plants. [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: Save the world - stay at home
Leader And as workforces grow ever more dispersed, physical media is increasingly going digital - software is now a service, documents are stored on servers rather than in paper form and so on - meaning less manufacturing of CDs, paper and other hard... [04 May 2007]
Opinion: Global services' level playing-field
Comment The answer is that a product would need to be manufactured on an extremely small scale for it to not be worth considering an offshore manufacturing plant. Now, as we are used to this global manufacturing scenario, our attention turns to services. [02 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment Unsurprisingly, both failed to live up to the pre-launch build-up - Titanic because its watertight bulkheads did not reach to the full height of the decks; Itanium due to a lack of optimised software, yield problems, high manufacturing cost and... [06 Nov 2006]
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