transformation in comment and analysis
Leading a horse to water
Comment It's difficult not to warm to him, which is a characteristic he is bound to find useful in his role as an architect for public sector transformation. Government CIO John Suffolk is number five in this year's silicon.com CIO50 list. [23 Jun 2008]
Yvonne Gallagher
CIO Profile Gallagher is also a major contributor to the wider Whitehall agenda together with colleagues on the CIO Council taking forward an ambitious programme of work ensuring that IT supports the business transformation of government. [11 Jun 2008]
Matthew Sinclair
CIO Profile Matthew Sinclair is European CIO for global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh where he champions the automation and transformation of the insurance value chain through electronic trading and settlement. [11 Jun 2008]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile Doran joined Network Rail from BT, where she was director of transformation and technology. She embarked on a career in technology after initially studying maths and geography at university in Ireland and has played a lead role in improving the... [11 Jun 2008]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile The period in which Coby has been at the helm is widely viewed as one of the toughest in the airline's history but IT has played a crucial role in turning this around particularly through the customer-enabled BA transformation programme (Ceba). [11 Jun 2008]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile A 35-year veteran of the IT industry working with blue-chip organisations, Gordon Lovell-Read spent six years at Siemens UK as CIO and an executive management board member, with a string of successful business ventures and transformation projects... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail
Comment The scale of Royal Mail - 80 million letters and packets handled each day, 24 million customers, 200,000 employees - is what makes the transformation programme daunting and Dargue admits in something of an understatement: "There's a lot to do. [11 Jun 2008]
David Lister
CIO Profile Before RBS, Lister spent almost four years at Reuters, driving the company's 'Fast Forward' transformation programme, putting in place a global tech platform and cutting IT costs and his work there is clearly done. [11 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Technology plays an increasingly critical role for mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse as the business moves into the wireless world, and Simon Post has been responsible for successfully steering IT through a two-year period of... [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile As CIO for pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca, Richard Williams is leading a company-wide IT transformation which has already seen boosted business performance through the use of shared services along with improved customer connectivity and IT... [11 Jun 2008]
Robin Dargue
CIO Profile The Royal Mail hired Dargue to lead a £2bn IT-based transformation programme and he has already wasted no time in reskilling and reshaping the group's IT department to meet the task. What bigger challenge is there after becoming CIO of the world's... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Buchanan
CIO Profile Buchanan joined the bank more than two years ago and is currently leading a complete transformation of the bank's business operations and technology with the aim of increasing customer focus, enabling faster growth in direct channels and... [11 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile Afterwards she put the training into practice when she joined the Crown Prosecution Service as CIO, overseeing a massive IT-led transformation programme. Claire Hamon joined the construction and building maintenance company Rok Group in August 2007... [11 Jun 2008]
Dylan Roberts
CIO Profile Dylan has been recognised, by awards, for the transformation of ICT service in Leeds into an example that others can learn from through a continued emphasis on delivering business value and outcomes rather than just technology. [11 Jun 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment This contrasts with last year where modernising infrastructure and legacy transformation were key spending priorities. Tech budgets will remain flat or fall in 2008 for most organisations as they focus on cost cutting and efficiency initiatives... [18 Apr 2008]
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