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Comment Well, as a young engineer I remember spending obscene amounts of company money for things we now all own and take for granted. Written in a coffee shop in Ipswich UK and dispatched via a company wi-fi service.
[14 May 2008]
Comment In fact, even now I can remember the hot flush of rage I felt when I couldn't get a game to work after spending hours every night for a week inputting a program. Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech...
[22 Apr 2008]
Comment Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT that they believe stopping spending money on it will somehow help.
[18 Apr 2008]
Comment But the spending picture looks fairly bleak for 2008 with three-quarters of CIOs saying their IT budgets will remain flat or fall this year and the rest predicting small increases. This contrasts with last year where modernising infrastructure and...
[18 Apr 2008]
Comment So businesses are battening down the hatches and examining processes to see where they can cut spending to protect margins. What will happen to outsourcing if budgets are trimmed and belts tightened? A careful look at key aspects of existing...
[10 Apr 2008]
Round-Up The airline is spending a cool $27m kitting out its entire fleet of planes with an in-flight mobile communications system. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the...
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech investment are the key issues driving tech spending over the next year, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey.
[26 Mar 2008]
Comment The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even though technology could be retailers' saviour, says Julian Goldsmith. An icy wind is blowing through the high street. Just as the weather is starting to turn, the economic climate is...
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment Why is it that after spending a great deal of time specifying requirements the end result almost always looks like what is already in place? Moronic end users are putting paid to any hope of introducing innovation at Naked CIO's new company.
[18 Feb 2008]
Comment And that's why in the past week or so some of the senior editors here have been spending time in TV studios, talking about subjects ranging from the problems with HMRC's website to the implications of the latest twists and turns of the Microsoft...
[12 Feb 2008]
Comment It was really sitting down and trying to understand the business and where they were going before diving in and spending money on IT," says Lynch. Dave Lynch, a no-nonsense northerner hailing from the seaside town of Blackpool, has come a long way...
[30 Jan 2008]
Comment During the year, as I established myself, this shifted rapidly to the point before Christmas where I was spending 100 per cent of my time on client projects. It's already 12 months since former IT director Mike Barrett decided to take a chance and...
[14 Jan 2008]
Comment Organisations taking just a tactical or piecemeal approach by considering each regulation with which they must comply in isolation will fail to see the bigger picture and are likely to end up spending more in the long run.
[07 Jan 2008]
Comment But one of the most common resolutions is spending more time we those we love and enjoy being with. Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. Dispatched via a commercial wi-fi service from a roadside café
[03 Jan 2008]
Leader This suggests not only are more people shopping on the internet, but they are spending more money too. It can't be denied that the holiday period has been a bumper haul for internet retailing. One early poll put increases in customers at 27 per...
[02 Jan 2008]
Comment For decades my Christmas wish list has presented a viable spending opportunity - but not this year. Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another. But I have always been able to stay ahead of the game and keep on...
[20 Dec 2007]
Comment When it comes to reducing the burden of 'business as usual' IT spending, smaller companies see outsourcing or offshoring as the least helpful strategy. For both SMEs and mid-market companies, better alignment between IT and the business is...
[18 Dec 2007]
Comment I have read a number of articles recently that would have us believe the nation's workers are spending their time plotting to steal confidential company data in all manner of 'James Bond'-esque ways. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our...
[25 Oct 2007]
Comment This augurs well for the sort of cross-agency, collaborative priorities that we need to see emerging from the Comprehensive Spending Review. The next few years will be critical in showing the real value of IT in the successful delivery of modern...
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment How about spending money on IT that is designed to manage the metrics and make sure they all meet stated targets by year end? About 20 years ago I was drawn into a public debate and enquiry on the state of education and educational standards.
[28 Aug 2007]
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