return in comment and analysis
Neelie Kroes
AS Profile As one panellist put it, Kroes is "a key force for the return of competition into the European IT market". Although Europe competition commissioner Neelie Kroes didn't earn a place in the Agenda Setters 50 last year,... [07 Oct 2008]
O2 on the rebirth of data, roaming and milking ADSL2+
Comment G return on our investment is not only about data it's about voice and data. Is growth in data the answer to getting a return on investment for 3G? The market has very very high return... [17 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Snooping bills, spam mountains, boring IT
Comment There have to be ways to invest taxpayers' money that will ensure a better - and measurable - rate of return. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com... [21 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Why boards get IT spend so wrong
Comment As part of the budget exercise, I went back over some return-based assumptions made the previous year. But come up with a hare-brained scheme and boards fall over themselves, says the Naked CIO. Over the past week I have... [11 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up Even more worrying, this seems to have resulted in a return of that classic 1980s fashion aberration - sorry "must-have fashion item, combining festival chic with security-conscious style" - the bum bag. [04 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a rapid return to earth, says the Naked CIO. Climbing the greasy pole as a CIO depends on certain key factors. I once did a talk on the key... [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up Gates' departure might also lead to the company's focus to return to its more traditional markets. The report found "two major institutional deficiencies", namely that "information security simply wasn't a management... [27 Jun 2008]
Mike Wright
CIO Profile At Willis, he worked closely with the private equity firm KKR to take the company private and then return to a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Mike Wright is head of technology at global investment... [11 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment While there are undoubtedly rural areas in the UK where broadband access is not readily available - often because there are too few people for telcos to get the kind of return on infrastructure investment they crave -... [23 May 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment Musician Billy Bragg, who has already fought a campaign against MySpace on the pages of UK newspapers, recently wrote in The New York Times bemoaning the financial return for artists from user-generated sites. [22 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up And the rest of them got a bit lonely and were grateful to return to the warm embrace of silicon.com towers this morning, vowing never to leave the office again, or at least not until the pubs open. Office workers across... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment It looks as though we may see a return to that practice as more and more companies are now critically dependent on having no-break power supplies 24/7, 365 days a year. Written during an intensely boring conference... [16 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Signs of terminal decline at T5?
Comment Still - on my return journey I had a peek at what T5 could bring to the weary business traveller. It's a small claim to fame, I know, but I was one of the passengers who flew from the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5... [16 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment We can only hope we shall see a return to sanity with the advent of new and leaner operating systems, and efficient code writers guided by sound design principles founded on well understood and documented human factors. [16 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects
Comment There are times in every project when you reach the point of no return. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says the Naked CIO. Do large projects make or break... [14 Apr 2008]
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