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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]
The Naked CIO: Price of panic
Comment As a realist I know that any cuts will have significant impact on resource-constrained services. Capricious boardroom decisions based on the flawed thinking of panicky executives always end up with the wrong things being cut. [03 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Madness in the method
Comment While it is good from a quality and completeness perspective, having two developers develop the same code is very difficult to justify from a resource perspective at any time, let alone with today's labour conditions. [19 May 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment On the software side investment is dominated by enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), with just over a third of CIOs spending on both those areas in 2008. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value... [26 Mar 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment This can be done for all assets in an enterprise or, through use of federation standards, can be extended to applications hosted by business partners or third parties without the need for users to reauthenticate themselves when accessing each... [18 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment Another is the possibility of contractors taking cost or resource out of the project to increase their profit margins or to service other customers. The fanfare of a new outsourcing contract may have died down long ago. [12 Mar 2008]
The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment We have about 10 to 15 per cent of the team offshore and the way we operate there is use the offshoring organisation HCL as a flexible resource. The internet, however, has shaken up the insurance industry where dot-com upstarts like eSure - the one... [27 Nov 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment For many businesses, the internet is now their main wide area network resource. The savvy are doing this and, in most cases, linking the employees to their shiny new IT resource over the internet. But how do you optimise performance over a public... [02 Nov 2007]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile The Beeb owns more archive material than any other broadcaster in the world, but rights management and transferring that resource to digital formats will prove tricky. Ashley Highfield remains a top 10 Agenda Setter for the fourth year in a row. [12 Oct 2007]
How to stop "runaway" ERP projects
Comment Big complicated and expensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can still cause headaches for many companies, admits Harry Debes, CEO of Lawson Software. Lawson isn't a familiar brand in the corporate IT world, especially in the UK and... [01 Oct 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment In reality they use no more electricity than older, resource-intensive industries such as ship building or chemical production. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks at ways of reducing consumption. [21 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment What a waste of valuable police time - shouldn't they channel their resource into illegal activities which actually harm or cause tangible loss to other members of the public. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [30 Aug 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics
Comment Typically these might include income, expenditure, profit, resource utilisation and targets achieved relative to some agreed plan. Written at a public house just outside Morpeth, Northumberland and dispatched via a public wi-fi service from a... [28 Aug 2007]
Leader: Time to rethink cyber crime priorities
Leader It's up to businesses and other interested parties to keep up the pressure on government and the police to take cyber crime seriously, even if it is resource-intensive to investigate. We're often warned of the menace of cyber crime to UK business... [24 Aug 2007]
BI for all
Comment Organisations are capturing and storing data from a multitude of sources such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems - and are also seeing a proliferation in unstructured formats such as text... [18 Jul 2007]
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