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Leading a horse to water
Comment Instead he relies on the CIOs of each government organisation to fulfil the strategies he lays down. Government CIO John Suffolk is number five in this year's silicon.com CIO50 list. It's a testament to his standing in the CIO community and an... [23 Jun 2008]
Dylan Roberts
CIO Profile Roberts is also responsible for the development of IT-enabled business strategies. As head of ICT at Leeds City Council, Dylan Roberts leads 345 IT professionals delivering operational services and IT capital programmes. [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Price of panic
Comment The business looks at everything from innovative growth strategies to cuts across the board. Capricious boardroom decisions based on the flawed thinking of panicky executives always end up with the wrong things being cut. [03 Jun 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment Because of a lack of awareness of the damage IT may be causing, it is often overlooked in companies' green strategies. Despite their best intentions, many organisations are overlooking the real environmental impact of IT operations. [07 Apr 2008]
Systems management hits impasse
Comment The need for greater accountability means strategies for IT systems management now have to include business context. Systems management is at a dead end. Organisations need a more coherent view - and one that has business meaning, says Martin... [13 Feb 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment Major dealers will have already reduced the scale of capital they allocate to fixed-income trading, generally as a result of losses and write-downs on mortgage-backed securities, or at least until they re-evaluate or redefine the future strategies... [30 Jan 2008]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Now they are blending the two strategies so need to extract the meaning from text and images, and to stop us reading the image they are adding noise so it looks like a Captcha test [the textual recognition test that people need to take when... [10 Dec 2007]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment In effect there is a requirement to track fund performance and activity from the fund-raising stage to exit strategies and final exit. This will be a catalyst for more focused technology strategies. Towergroup's Bob McDowall addresses some of them. [20 Aug 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment The government wants to follow in the foot steps of the US, Australian and Irish governments, all of whom have been following successful shared services strategies for years. If IT suppliers are worried shared services might mean fewer big... [20 Jun 2007]
CIOs lack skills for growth
Comment Precisely when business strategies are shaped by technology functionality there is a gap between what business managers expect from their IT counterparts and what IT managers can actually deliver to business. [04 May 2007]
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'
Comment Known as the 'father of Java', James Gosling is still at Sun Microsystems working on software development tools and aligning the strategies for the language and platform he created more than a decade ago.silicon.com recently caught up with Gosling... [19 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.01.07
Round-Up Perhaps while Carphone Warehouse is revisiting its current marketing and brand awareness strategies it might do the Round-Up a favour and consider a long overdue renaming exercise, because the Round-Up can't help noticing there aren't so many... [19 Jan 2007]
Minority Report: How the Woz shaped Apple
Comment In fact, the prospect of having to become an executive who hired and fired, developed business strategies and marketing plans for the company was so alien to his character that he almost never left his beloved HP. [15 Dec 2006]
Upwardly Mobile: The operators' new clothes
Comment Jo Best looks at how well two operators - O2 and 3 - are doing in coming up with new strategies. In the fast-moving mobile market, 'follow the leader' isn't good enough anymore. Recently, it seems, the mobile operators are starting to wake up to... [03 Dec 2006]
Editor's Blog: Nicholas Carr and Trevor Baylis
Comment However, he contrasted that with his previous role as UK IT director at mobile giant Vodafone where technology was core to the business and the IT organisation worked to rigid, five-year investment strategies regardless of how the business... [22 Nov 2006]
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