public sector in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment The results are only too clear to see in the failure of so many of the UK's largest and most oversold public-sector IT projects. With the industry notoriously unkind to the over-40s, Simon Moores is thinking of following his lead. [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment It's been a while since I've mentioned silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which is aimed at improving the way organisations - both private and public sector - look after our data. Yesterday we revealed there have been 30 data losses in central... [26 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment It's difficult not to warm to him, which is a characteristic he is bound to find useful in his role as an architect for public sector transformation. The issues that most concern Suffolk are maintaining the quality of the IT professionals employed... [23 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment After initial strong gains the company lost market share in the smart phone sector last month. The disappointment among some people that more wasn't announced says more about the unreasonable levels of high public expectation around Apple keynotes... [13 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Brought into the civil service as part of the government's drive to tap private sector high flying talent, it is a bold move for Mather who has no previous public sector experience. Tony Mather joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as CIO... [11 Jun 2008]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile In his first move into the public sector Phil Pavitt was appointed as Group CIO for Transport for London (TfL) in early 2007. His main task has been integrating the systems of the 13 individual companies that were combined to make the organisation... [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Over the past 20 years he has been responsible for some of the most high-profile executive search assignments in the technology sector, working with organisations ranging from pre-revenue start-ups to multibillion dollar industry leaders. [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Steel has just been elected president of the public sector IT managers association, Socitm, and will spend most of his time this year on secondment there managing an ambitious change programme but will still have control of overall IT strategy at... [11 Jun 2008]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile Key to this is sharing best practice to improve the success rate of big government IT projects and to drive better value deals for the public sector on hardware, software and services. Suffolk's remit also includes leading the IT Professionalism... [11 Jun 2008]
Dylan Roberts
CIO Profile He has more than 20 years of experience in public sector IT and holds an MBA qualification. As head of ICT at Leeds City Council, Dylan Roberts leads 345 IT professionals delivering operational services and IT capital programmes. [11 Jun 2008]
Ailsa Beaton
CIO Profile She learned her craft at GE, specialising in the oil industry, but went over to consultancy at PA where she spent 11 years, focusing primarily in public sector and health projects. Ailsa Beaton's career path to becoming IT chief at the Metropolitan... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group
Comment On route to the top of her profession she has successfully tackled some massive IT-based change management programmes in both the private and public sector but out of the office she can also be found charging towards the try line or making... [13 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?
Comment And rather than the usual upbeat assessment of the state of public sector IT, I was surprised to hear them echoing many of these criticisms. The pitfalls of mixing IT and the public sector are well known. [30 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment In general terms, financial services organisations turn out to be the most distributed and public sector ones the least. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT tasks. [24 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment While smart phones only represent around 10 per cent of the global handset market, the sector is growing fast. Last month's launch of iPhone developer software passed unnoticed by the general public. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a... [23 Apr 2008]
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