travel in comment and analysis
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment First, it can focus on helping business partners become greener - for example, by bringing in collaboration tools to replace staff travel. In good times and bad, green IT deserves a spot on the CIO agenda. [21 Oct 2009]
Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile Lane Fox shot to fame in the late 1990s as the founder of the dot-com travel company lastminute.com, and remained on the company's board until its sale in 2005. Martha Lane Fox earned her place in the Agenda Setters list... [30 Sep 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment Reducing travel through online conferencing and optimising transport logistics are two pretty obvious ones. The travel reduction also lessens accommodation bills and introduces a better work/life balance... [19 Aug 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment For example, it can save time, money and unnecessary travel by letting primary care trusts provide remote support for GPs' IT systems. While the NHS has made some attempts to secure its networks, the onus now falls on... [07 Jul 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile Pavitt is also involved in a scheme to give road users up-to-date information about London travel conditions through sat-nav devices. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and Customs, one of the... [03 Jun 2009]
Mittu Sridhara
CIO Profile Before Ladbrokes he was VP, product marketing and IT at Sabre Holdings, responsible for product strategy and delivery as well as integrating technology acquisitions at the company that provides IT services to the travel... [02 Jun 2009]
David Williams
CIO Profile At Flybe he built a back office system that allowed the company to sell online, helping to transform the business from a traditional airline reliant on travel agents to a low-fares carrier. Since joining Confused.com in... [01 Jun 2009]
Telepresence - time to work together
Comment Telepresence adoption is often justified based on financial savings from avoiding travel and using software to communicate instead, with perhaps a passing nod to the 'green' benefits of avoiding the associated... [06 May 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment The Commission's sustainability agenda also got a boost from the integration: it now has some 70 videoconferencing units around the country with 1,200 hours of use per month, helping the organisation cut down on travel... [09 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.03.09
Round-Up Maybe even now a future version of Arnie is getting ready to travel back in time and stop him from making the CeBIT speech. You may be shocked at this revelation but trade show keynotes can be rather dusty affairs. [06 Mar 2009]
Green IT isn't dead yet
Comment Cutting down on travel is another example of an act which is both green and saves money. The recession is dampening many areas of IT - but not environmental impact. Quocirca's Clive Longbottom looks at how cost-cutting... [19 Feb 2009]
Editor's Blog: Working from home is snow joke
Comment It's strange that in times of even minor emergency, my first recourse is low tech: this morning I checked the local radio, which was handy for travel advice but also for providing a few horror stories from the brave... [02 Feb 2009]
Do you need video in your enterprise?
Comment For example, if training budgets are tight, video-based training may require only one trainer and one session, and reach employees around the world without requiring travel costs. In the same way, unicast webconferencing... [05 Jan 2009]
Retailers: Look to emerging markets
Comment So picking the individual is key - a broadminded and personable individual, flexible and happy to travel is going to be more important than a techno-whiz. This could be a good move, says Matthew Cushen - if shops watch... [03 Dec 2008]
Naked CIO: Has tech made us dumber?
Comment Thanks to the technology users can no longer find their way around on their own - and if they move house or travel they expect the system to give them directions. Applications that were meant to make business users more... [01 Dec 2008]
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