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Comment In the first of a new series for 2005 aimed at those at the top of IT or business - or quite possibly both - Rene Carayol revisits the retail sector. He takes a close look at J Sainsbury plc and a recent poor run all too closely aligned with...
[19 Jan 2005]
Comment Why is Rene Carayol fit to provide that reasoning? A trite statement from Rene" was the feedback from another. Boy did I feel the wrath of some of the CIOs and other IT heads in attendance - and even afterwards, from those who weren't at the event...
[08 Dec 2004]
Comment In the first of two columns this week that draw on this month's ABC broadband conference for inspiration, Rene Carayol explains how he rediscovered his faith, in no small part due to a technology leader we know well…
[17 Nov 2004]
Comment As the 'real-world' CIO Jury session at silicon.com's CIO Forum in September rattled along, I heard my old friend Rene Carayol talking about CIO being an acronym for 'Career Is Over'. silicon.com is proud to introduce a new column by Jonathan Steel...
[10 Nov 2004]
Comment Former CIO and silicon.com columnist Rene Carayol, claims it is "easier to teach a business person about technology than it is to teach a technologist about business". The role of the CIO and IT director has once again come under the spotlight...
[06 Oct 2004]
Round-Up Guest speakers such as Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and silicon.com columnist and former CIO Rene Carayol were practically falling over themselves to come up with memorable quotes. "How surprised I was, to discover to my considerable dissatisfaction...
[01 Oct 2004]
Leader Does it stand for, as Rene Carayol said, 'career is over'? As the dust settles on the silicon.com CIO Forum held at the beginning of this week it starts to get easier to draw some conclusions from the event and to see what really matters to CIOs...
[30 Sep 2004]
Comment But Rene Carayol says IBM now leads the tech pack - again. Much of the progress that came from the 1990s recovery at IBM under Lou Gerstner could have been for nothing if the company's 2002 purchase of PwC had flopped.
[24 Sep 2004]
Leader E-business experts, including our columnist Rene Carayol, have spoken out against a culture that hammers small vendors who see their margins slashed. In the late 1990s, this writer found himself penning a fair amount about e-procurement.
[18 Aug 2004]
Comment But, argues columnist Rene Carayol, such a hard-headed approach can often be the undoing of such leaders - and their organisations. We're used to the idea of a crusading business leader whose strength is tied to never giving up.
[28 Jul 2004]
Comment Two examples given by commentator Rene Carayol highlight how the best companies will be those with open minds Ageism is an issue in IT, if only because it's seen as a profession for young people and is having to deal with an ageing working population.
[20 May 2004]
Comment The lesson to take from Apple is all about an organisation and leader that can learn from its past, says Rene Carayol. Forget the success of iTunes or even the iPod. Are Apple - and its charismatic leader Steve Jobs - the ultimate reformed act?
[22 Apr 2004]
Comment Continuing a recent silicon.com theme of large organisations being brave enough to use smaller suppliers, Rene Carayol this month explains why seemingly playing safe with IT procurement is ultimately dangerous for all of us.
[10 Mar 2004]
Comment Columnist Rene Carayol called the Oracle-PeopleSoft-JD Edwards shenanigans "a soap opera we could do without" and merely "about getting rid of a competitor". When Oracle first announced its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, it looked like the move of a...
[27 Feb 2004]
Comment Sure, not all have come up through the IT ranks - something columnist Rene Carayol lamented recently in a piece provocatively called 'The death of the CIO' - but they are hammering home that the only thing that matters is the business.
[06 Feb 2004]
Comment Rene Carayol is increasingly concerned with the calibre of person getting on the bottom wrung of IT and the type of individual increasingly taking over at the top. Is throwing away the manual the answer?
[13 Jan 2004]
Comment That’s the way it looks if the recent history of the sector is anything to go by says Rene Carayol. The top echelon of IT is going to be dominated increasingly by those whose background isn’t in the profession.
[22 Dec 2003]
Comment How wrong they are, writes Rene Carayol. Some people think Craig Barrett is the pen pusher guiding the inevitable success of a tech stalwart. Recently I had the pleasure of hosting an evening where the top brass from the UK retail sector met one of...
[21 Nov 2003]
Comment But, again, we could learn a thing or two from what happens in the US, says Rene Carayol. He can be contacted at rene@carayol.com. Rene Carayol is a former IT director and board member of IPC Media. He hadn't done a bad job.
[23 Sep 2003]
Comment Rene Carayol names the three men UK Plc should be learning from above all others. He can be contacted at rene@carayol.com. Rene Carayol is a former IT director and board member of IPC Media. Isn't the starting point identifying who our role models...
[27 Aug 2003]
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