promotion in comment and analysis
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment From her first IT role in GE Beaton took a promotion from the technical user support area into sales and marketing, specialising in the oil industry where she spent a year running GE's office in Stavanger, Norway. [02 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Don't expect promotion if you're missing IT skills. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also got a lots of comments, while women in IT - or lack of them - sparked a huge debate. [17 Apr 2008]
HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot
Comment The HMRC case tells us the law's focus on geographical considerations - Europe adequately protects data but other regions do not - and its promotion of contractual solutions, such as consent to processing being a criterion for legitimacy, cannot... [27 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment I frequently find my similar fears, that today's IT Directors are too obsessed with promotion to the Board and yet don't understand their own business, are shared with a wide cross-section of the industry. [23 Aug 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Thresher thinking
Comment Certainly at first glance it looks as though somebody within Threshers didn't think through this promotion and entirely underestimated how easy it is to forward an email. Then between first receiving the voucher and using it (or at least using it... [05 Dec 2006]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment On second thoughts, the latter was a bullet-proof, can't-lose promotion. Toshiba is a renowned laptop maker and as I have mentioned in previous posts, I am a user. Nothing flash, just the A100, which I like. [20 Sep 2006]
Special: What kind of CIO are you?
Comment The research says: "For example, the promotion of a professional CIO usually signals satisfaction with the IT status quo, whereas the recruitment of a paratrooper is almost always associated with a desire for significant change. [18 Sep 2006]
Leader: Ageism in IT - what do you think?
Leader Starting on 1 October, new laws will make it illegal for companies to deny a job or promotion to anyone because of their age. How much of a problem is ageism in IT? Over the past few years we've heard quite a lot from silicon.com readers on the topic. [11 Sep 2006]
Leader: Are IT bosses ready to run the company?
Leader The New Year got off to a good start for one IT boss with the promotion of Betfair's operations and technology executive David Yu to CEO this week. It's rarer than a successful government IT project to see an IT chief not only get a seat at the top... [05 Jan 2006]
The future is open source
Comment The China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance is another group working with western vendors like HP and IBM, already big open source shops. With support from governments growing, how will it mature over the next five? [21 Jul 2005]
Election 2005: Next government must launch 'war on hackers'
Comment It also wants to see more promotion of UK businesses in the face of cheaper competition offshore, and wants to see more access to government procurement by smaller businesses. A war on hackers, more investment in technology and a greater effort to... [21 Apr 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Could Jamie Oliver change the world?
Comment In past years there may have been petitions at the school gates or a few well-meaning mums picking up the cause to little effect but now that the internet is involved - backed with a major TV programme and tireless promotion from Oliver - the... [21 Mar 2005]
The McCue Interview: UK Government CIO Ian Watmore
Comment There was a recognised career path with training and promotion and community in the 1980s. New government CIO Ian Watmore is trying to convince me the media should be writing more about planes landing safely. [16 Feb 2005]
Way to win in online music? Sign a star
Comment The online services need exclusive content too badly to risk losing it by charging advertising or promotion fees for prime placement. John Borland looks at whether pay-for-placement deals could be next. [29 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: In support of open standards
Comment Once upon a time, government tried to do exactly that, with promotion of a set of so-called open standards, largely based on Unix. Doing so will lead to better products for us all, says Martin Brampton. [26 Oct 2004]
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