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How Zavvi lost its Virginity
Comment As a result, once the retailer was forced to acknowledge business realities and embrace retailing on the web, it found itself coming to the party a little later than its rivals. One of the changes the... [09 Oct 2008]
Neil Cameron
CIO Profile Following a series of management roles at Dixons, AerLingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks & Spencer in 1987 and rose up the ladder to become CIO for the retailer's US business where he led a major change programme,... [11 Jun 2008]
Michel Khan
CIO Profile Michel Khan has headed up the IT of this eye-care retailer for the last 12 years. Before joining Specsavers, he was IT director at duty free retailer Allders International. In that time, he has won... [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Prior to joining the retailer, Arthurs, who has a marketing degree from Lancaster University, spent seven years at electrical retailer Comet as head of IT - with an IT remit covering its stores,... [11 Jun 2008]
David Lister
CIO Profile Prior to that, Lister was at Boots, where he overhauled the health and beauty retailer's IT strategy with a £300m modernisation programme and major outsourcing deal with IBM. The archetypal 'paratrooper' CIO David Lister... [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Technology plays an increasingly critical role for mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse as the business moves into the wireless world, and Simon Post has been responsible for successfully steering IT through a... [11 Jun 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment JLP is a quirky retailer in many ways, with profits shared out among all staff and its strong commitment to home-shopping through its shareholding of Ocado. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even... [13 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment The massive breach that retailer TK Maxx suffered was a good example. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home,... [10 Mar 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment An earlier session had given the floor to Ken Brame, the recently retired CIO of US retailer AutoZone, with 4,000 stores to serve. Offshoring to India is often discussed in terms of staff cost-cutting. [18 Feb 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader They will be more likely to blame the retailer they purchased the late (or in some cases never) arriving gift from. It can't be denied that the holiday period has been a bumper haul for internet retailing. [02 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment That's what's enabled them to do things like become the biggest online retailer with the vehicle licensing service. Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business, has been with the company 26 years, with... [05 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... in defence of Leopard, trash talk, iWant iPhone, lost data...
Comment Rather than passing legislation to penalise the individual, and passing the buck onto local authorities, this government, so keen on micromanaging every other aspect of our lives, should pass enforceable legislation that ensures that... [08 Nov 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis In a similar vein to Charles Dunstone at 42 - though admittedly Dunstone has the bread-and-butter role of being the largest retailer of mobile devices in Europe - James Murdoch can point to an interesting position in the... [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Disclosing data breaches
Comment In a word: when an organisation, be it bank, retailer, government department or other, leaks some of your personal data, you should know about it. You may have noticed that at the start of this week silicon.com kicked... [19 Jul 2007]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment Last year silicon.com chronicled the case of a still-to-be-named UK retailer which suffered a security breach that led to thousands of customers having their credit cards reissued. While the customers had to go through... [16 Jul 2007]
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