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OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing

News Exclusive Special Report: CIO Agenda 2008 Version 3.0 will be the first to run on Mac OS X using the standard Aqua user interface, rather than relying on the Unix windowing software X11, and will add partial support for Visual Basic for...

Tags: windows, mac, openoffice

[09 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News David Meads, operations director financial services for Cisco UK, told silicon.com: "I can't recall the last time I had a conversation with a CIO where sustainability wasn't on the agenda… I'm not suggesting it was the agenda item, although we've...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities

Comment Tech budgets will remain flat or fall in 2008 for most organisations as they focus on cost cutting and efficiency initiatives, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey. The average IT budget last year among CIO Agenda survey...

Tags: cio agenda

[18 Apr 2008]

The CIO shopping list

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.

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

Centrica lands Virgin CIO

News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Energy company Centrica has appointed Virgin's Gareth Lewis as new group CIO. Lewis joins Centrica in November from Virgin where he has...

Tags: gareth lewis, virgin, centrica

[17 Oct 2007]

CIO power

AS Analysis Whether it's the increasing importance of the CIO role in modern business or acknowledgement of their contribution in innovating and driving value through the exploitation of technology, the Agenda Setters judging panel included not one but five...

[12 Oct 2007]

John Suffolk

CIO Profile As CIO for the UK government John Suffolk is primarily responsible for leading the IT strategy behind the 'Transformational Government' agenda along with his fellow public-sector IT chiefs on the CIO Council.

[06 Jun 2007]

Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation

News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said virtualisation - the simultaneous running of several operating systems on a single...

Tags: virtualisation, cio jury

[04 May 2007]

CIOs 'lack vision and fail to innovate'

News The silicon.com CIO Agenda survey Find out what's on the CIO's technology shopping list and whether IT budgets are rising or falling. Gartner has also warned that technology is being seen less and less as a force for driving business growth by CEOs...

Tags: gartner, pa consulting, lse, london school of economics

[26 Apr 2007]

CIO Jury: Bosses back mobile driving ban

News Check out the full CIO profile report here and silicon.com's own 2007 CIO Agenda survey. Nine of this week's 12-strong silicon.com CIO Jury IT user panel said they have a policy in place to cover the use of mobile devices on the road by staff...

Tags: mobile driving ban, cio jury

[01 Mar 2007]

Leader: The CIO Agenda for 2007

Leader Some key themes have emerged from the results of silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda survey, which is now in its third year. This year's CIO Agenda certainly shows more signs of optimism than last year when the talk was of cost-cutting and flat or...

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[17 Jan 2007]

CIO Agenda: Legacy overhaul on tap in 2007

News The results make up our third annual CIO Agenda survey. IT budgets are set to stay flat or slightly increase in 2007 as businesses look to invest in modernising and refreshing their technology platforms to take advantage of growth opportunities in...

Tags: cio agenda, cio jury

[16 Jan 2007]

Three golden rules of success for CIOs

Comment Develop a customer service-driven agenda and attitude in how the job gets done. Luke Mellors has been the CIO of London's prestigious hotel The Dorchester and is now CIO of travel and bookings agency Expotel.

[02 Nov 2006]

IT budget squeeze stifling innovation in UK plc

News The predictions echo both the results of silicon.com's own CIO Agenda survey at the end of last year and revised IT spending forecasts for 2006 by analyst Forrester this week. James Bennet, director of technology, communications and entertainment...

Tags: innovation, cio

[13 Jan 2006]

Former e-Envoy Pinder gets Becta job

News He will play a key role in driving forward technology in the education agenda. Becta chief executive, Owen Lynch, welcomed the appointment and said in a statement: "Andrew Pinder's appointment is excellent news for Becta and the educational ICT...

Tags: andrew pinder

[11 Jan 2006]

Leader: Looking back - and forward

Leader Our end of year CIO Agenda snapshot makes for interesting reading, not least for vendors and others dealing with the users who must deliver. Areas high on the agenda this year: IT governance (not always related to the current compliance maelstrom...

[20 Dec 2005]

CIO Agenda, part 2: Boardrooms demand more from IT

News The results make up our second annual CIO Agenda survey. That is one of the key findings of silicon.com's second annual end-of-year CIO Agenda survey, which polled 12 members of our CIO Jury IT user panel on their IT budgets, priorities for 2006...

Tags: cio agenda

[19 Dec 2005]

CIO Jury: Share price isn't fair benchmark of IT success

News Kirk Downey, CTO at Centrica, said CIOs should have a shared role in realising the business agenda with their peers that focuses on "economic value creation" as a more directly measurable indicator for performance for both IT and non-IT executives.

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[13 Jul 2005]

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