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The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy

Comment That is the strange thing about process that I am learning as I work in different organisations: different places have different tolerances for process efficiencies and you must determine the best fit for your operation.

Tags: project management, process

[12 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment It's a move that replicates a system already in operation in the US. This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation

Comment Even within a community, co-operation is somewhat restricted. Unfortunately, this lack of co-operation, endemic in the general run of open source projects, is one of the factors that leads to inefficiency and waste.

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?

Comment I will try to be more open to the general idea of outsourcing aspects of my operation but I still have a genuine phobia about it for many reasons. Is our embattled hero right to take a stand on the issue or should he meekly submit?

Tags: outsourcing, managed services, offshoring, evidence

[10 Mar 2008]

Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam

Comment The almost continuous operation of IT systems is taken as a given in many organisations. Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology, says Rob Bamforth - at least nothing a...

Tags: blackberry, pdas, email, mobile

[21 Feb 2008]

Why you should be outsourcing your data centres

Comment There are also very long lead times between identifying the requirement, through to acquiring a suitable facility and getting the data centre ready for full operation. However, creating a nomadic, flexible and highly cost-effective data centre...

Tags: data centre, outsourcing, green, advances

[04 Feb 2008]

Why outsourcing divorce can end in tears…

Comment But the co-operation of the supplier isn't always easy to get in these circumstances, particularly if it hasn't been asked to retender. But public sector organisations considering going elsewhere next time have a number of options, says Paul Bentham.

Tags: outsourcing, tupe, accenture, public sector

[04 Feb 2008]

Losing control in the SaaS lane

Comment The SaaS provider concerned, a relatively large player with a significant customer base, said nothing could be done - the scale of their operation and the nature of the upgrade translated to a significant migration exercise for them, so it was...

Tags: saas, applications, contracts, hosting

[16 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment This technology will allow us to use the same electronics and antenna for wi-fi and WiMax, for example, and also possibly for 2.5/3/4G where it is unlikely that simultaneous operation will be needed. The competition for antenna space on our laptops...

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…

Comment Nothing changes - people are still the biggest security risk in any sort of operation. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.

Tags: driver, google, hmrc, encryption

[20 Dec 2007]

The greening of IT: Do it yourself

Comment If you do not trust your staff to turn off PCs, software such as Watchman can turn machines off for you - for instance, when the building is closed and the desktop is not performing a critical operation.

Tags: green, printers, virtualisation, energy

[02 Nov 2007]

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain

Comment What our strategy tends to be is unless it is something we think is going to be a value-add operation such as ordering of stock into stores we try and use an off-the-shelf type solution. Cobain: "We start with the customers at the tills so...

Tags: colin cobain, tesco

[25 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 31.08.07

Round-Up The 'chief international officer' is there to manage the business and IT infrastructure to manage the global operation, or at least deal with the majority of the support staff based in India and Newcastle.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[31 Aug 2007]

The tech requirements of private equity funds

Comment There is now more analysis of how and where technology improves the efficient operation and risk management of the funds. Private equity has had a high, if mixed profile but its technology requirements are seldom discussed and reviewed.

Tags: private equity

[20 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers

Comment But, most of all, watch the tech skilled youngsters entering the workplace who come with new mindsets and modes of operation. Dispatched to silicon.com via public wi-fi. In the middle of a legal trial involving technology, a high court judge...

Tags: business skills, technical skills, management

[20 Aug 2007]

Security - no longer just about hackers

Comment While such a model may have worked in the past, today's organisations are looking for security to be more about business enablement and risk reduction - and this will require not only different technology combinations but also different approaches...

Tags: lan security, hackers, risk management, security

[31 Jul 2007]

The CIOs transforming government IT

Comment Suffolk points to successes such as a Transport for London shared service centre that has cut one-third off the group's HR spend in its first year of operation and the NHS Shared Business Service. The Transformational Government report and Varney...

Tags: cio50

[27 Jun 2007]

Jon Granville

CIO Profile Granville has also played a key role in the expansion of the company's multi-channel operations with the launch of an ecommerce operation and the expansion of the Body Shop At Home business. Jon Granville is a CIO with extensive business and IT...

[06 Jun 2007]

The CIOs transforming government IT

CIO Analysis Suffolk points to successes such as a Transport for London shared service centre that has cut one-third off the group's HR spend in its first year of operation and the NHS Shared Business Service. The Transformational Government report and Varney...

[06 Jun 2007]

Bruno Laquet

CIO Profile Laquet was brought in to Corus to sort out the fragmented IT operation inherited from the merger of the former British Steel and Hoogovens of the Netherlands and has since standardised the IT environment, moving from more than 1,500 applications...

[06 Jun 2007]

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