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Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment I am now the Team Leader in Technical Support, leapfrogging over uncertified time-servers. This is a clear case of a government requirement being misinterpreted and being met by varying technical solutions. [28 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Best backgrounds for CIOs?
Comment What is critical from a technical perspective is a fundamental understanding of project management and IT operations. But while application development, networking and compliance are all skills that... [18 Aug 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Analysts fail on open source
Comment In principle, this is a clear opportunity for industry analysts, who have the skills to translate the technical representations of open source developers into the practical conceptions that are... [18 Aug 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment Give them a grounding in business, government, media on which to hang their technical skills To improve our credibility we could all start by rooting out the waffle, the weasel words and the... [11 Aug 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Serious games
Comment The second technical rehearsal was one of the toughest exercises we've been through. This final technical rehearsal took place for 35 Olympic sports across 39 venues. The Naked CIO: The... [23 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile Hamon brings a solid technical background to the CIO role, having studied computing at the London Computer Electronic School and cut her teeth as a programmer. Despite her technical background, Hamon... [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing
Comment Lloyds TSB is depreciating the value of its people and I have serious doubts about how its strategy could possibly lead to the organisation becoming a leading-edge technical force in its field. This decision will... [27 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Many will be aware now that the seventh principle of the Data Protection Act requires businesses to take appropriate technical and organisational measures to guard against accidental data loss. While it is possible to... [27 Mar 2008]
You won't get promoted looking like that
Comment Technology specialists are unlikely to be promoted into the senior hierarchy based solely on their technical skills. But how do you move from being seen as the techie in the corner to become the... [20 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Recruitment nightmares
Comment Their experience is never applicable - and what happened to key non-technical skills? Technical training is valid but it does not identify if someone can perform key job-related... [11 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment You used the highly technical term "got a virus". There is more to ERP than Oracle and SAP as this interview makes clear Skills Survey 2007: Industry falling out of love with IT grads What's got... [04 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment I think some "non-technical" people in the IT industry overplay the "geek" stereotypes (such as poor communicators and bad personal hygene etc) to make them feel better about themselves or justify they're... [27 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment Well a good start would be to stop callng them techies (or geeks) and start sshowing respect for technical knowledge I would suggest that there is no Skills shortage, I have been trying to find a... [13 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Know-nothing managers
Comment These days people who have zip technical training or experience are managing some of the biggest IT projects on the planet. But it will most likely take more than 10 to 20 years to see their total displacement as... [20 Aug 2007]
How to be a top CIO
CIO Analysis The general wisdom put forward from various quarters over the last few years is that as the CIO role becomes more business-focused there is less need to have a person with a technical background fill those shoes at the... [06 Jun 2007]
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