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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment One of the themes that runs throughout Hamon's career is managing large-scale change. Whether at work or play Claire Hamon, CIO of construction company Rok Group, isn't one to shy away from or shirk a challenge.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white

Comment But many eventually turn to outside specialists with managed print services because of the scale, complexity and escalating costs of printing. Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window.

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment So how do you avoid large-scale losses caused by rogue traders? Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with the most sophisticated software. But a ruthless overhaul of poor banking systems is crucial to putting rogue...

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment And of course this should be conducted before any large-scale rollout or service launch. Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet Earth.

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

How will your deal weather a downturn?

Comment Yet if a serious recession hits, companies might scale back outsourcing. What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? A careful look at key aspects of existing contracts would not go amiss, suggests lawyer Margaret...

Tags: contracts, downturn, suppliers, outsourcing

[10 Apr 2008]

Centralised or decentralised IT?

Comment Their experiences show IT organisations how to accomplish goals that appear mutually exclusive: directly serving business units and maintaining economies of scale and compatibility in technology. Pool software developers and save money, or disperse...

Tags: centralisation, software, development

[09 Apr 2008]

SAS UK boss talks SaaS, innovation and his first 90 days in the job...

Comment But we do recognise that we've got to really accelerate that now because of the size and scale of projects we're getting involved in. Ian Manocha took over as managing director of SAS in the UK three months ago and has been busy putting his stamp...

Tags: saas, consolidation, uk, sas

[02 Apr 2008]

How did the Heathrow T5 launch go so wrong?

Comment Despite the extensive testing, it seems the realities and vagaries of operating an airport terminal of such scale and with so much new thinking are virtually impossible to fully replicate, and T5 has fallen foul of this simple fact.

Tags: airport, testing, baa, ba

[28 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts

Comment Cutts believes that the risks in a project of this scale means the third-party relationships are always going to be key. When you've got something of scale, you want all the supporting people behind you.

Tags: customer service, change management, building society, society

[11 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

Comment As a biometrics integrator on large-scale programmes, we understand biometric projects require exactly the same business case underpinnings as any other system deployment. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the...

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Identity crisis

Comment Whatever that cost, I'm certain that given the needs of online businesses and with the scale of the information flow there are major gaps in the handling of personal data. So why as a consumer does he blithely share his own personal details at the...

Tags: identity, security, data theft, ecommerce

[25 Feb 2008]

Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks

Comment It also allows us to scale important individuals," says Heltsley. But for many CIOs that future has already arrived, argues Howard Greenfield. As content from iPods, TV and websites starts to invade enterprise routers and servers, pundits continue...

Tags: social networking, new media, ipods, tv

[19 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…

Comment This simply isn't good enough and the practice of sending by post confidential data on this scale should be made illegal. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...

Tags: broadband, id cards, skills, data

[31 Jan 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment Of course there are financial benefits to economies of scale when it comes to IT but there is no mandate to force that on the different business units. There are also no large-scale technology rollouts across the business - with every project...

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008

Comment The aspiration of the major platforms must be to become the market, through the scale of deal flow such that they provide real trading connectivity between the various fixed-income markets. Major dealers will have already reduced the scale of...

Tags: bonds, arbitrage, trading platforms, flow

[30 Jan 2008]

How to write a killer CV

Comment Describe the companies you have worked for in terms of scale, market position and major challenges. Then add one line on the scope and scale of your role or perhaps what problem you were brought in to solve.

Tags: careers, job-hunting, cvs, skills

[17 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…

Comment Perhaps they could have a sliding scale - cursory investigation with almost guaranteed failure for one price and a premium "efficient" investigation with the job done properly for considerably more. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their...

Tags: hmrc, police, school, vista

[17 Jan 2008]

Losing control in the SaaS lane

Comment The SaaS provider concerned, a relatively large player with a significant customer base, said nothing could be done - the scale of their operation and the nature of the upgrade translated to a significant migration exercise for them, so it was...

Tags: saas, applications, contracts, hosting

[16 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'

Comment Do we have to continue to work on our advertising scale and our search and some usability things in our music products? For years, Microsoft's Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to...

Tags: bill gates, ces, vista, entertainment

[08 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Aerial bombardment

Comment One solution from the past, which is both efficient and on the same scale as the laptop form factor, is the use of slots. The competition for antenna space on our laptops and mobile devices is getting critical.

Tags: wireless, wi-fi, mobility, antenna

[07 Jan 2008]

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