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News Research by Ernst & Young shows that profit warnings in the software and computer services sector of the FTSE share index rose by 44 per cent in the first quarter of 2008. Across all sectors of the FTSE index 114 profit warnings were issued by UK...
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Addleshaw Goddard is one of the UK's leading law firms, acting for more than 80 FTSE 350 companies and nearly 100 public sector organizations. A core aspect of Addleshaw Goddard's business is document production and client communication.
[10 Apr 2008]
News Leading police officers, global cyber security chiefs and FTSE 100 companies are backing a new campaign by silicon.com for the creation of a dedicated UK national cyber crime police unit. Paul Simmonds, global head of security for ICI and founding...
[12 Mar 2008]
News The campaign has received backing from the Metropolitan Police, Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, a former White House cyber security adviser, blue chip FTSE 100 companies, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), UK payment industry body...
[12 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Provident Financial is a UK FTSE 250 global lending company. Due to its agent workforce and regional branches, Provident Financial's account management systems were heavily reliant on manual processing.
[24 Feb 2008]
News We are a FTSE 350 company and we were still sending out written cheques to our suppliers. Insurance specialist Admiral Group has implemented an £80,000 document management system from Version One to automate its purchase-to-pay processes.
[29 Oct 2007]
News The survey of CIOs at FTSE 350 companies also found the majority (41 out of 50) have a technology background and most (38 out of 50) are recruited from outside of the business. CIOs stay in their job for just over three years, even though the...
[24 Aug 2007]
CIO Profile After graduating in mining engineering from University College Cardiff in 1978 Lamey spent 22 years at FTSE 100 industrial gases group BOC where he rose to become director of global information and management.
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile BAA's IT has also been consistently benchmarked as being among the best - in terms of best practice - in the FTSE 100. What they say about him: "Richard is the archetypal solid, dependable IS leader who balances innovation with standardisation...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment Today 81 per cent of the FTSE 100 report on their carbon emissions. Not many are. What this wireless technology needs is a killer app. And Unwired's Richard Leyland has an idea of what that could be. Hint: Think 'green').
[22 Feb 2007]
News Shortly after the anti-online gambling act was passed online gambling sites began a losing streak, being ousted from FTSE indices and getting ready to suspend US business. Brits make up nearly one-third of Europe's 3.3 million regular online...
[01 Nov 2006]
News Bad news continues to dominate the online gambling sector as betting sites 888 and Partygaming have been demoted on prestigious FTSE stock indices. Partygaming was unexpectedly dropped from the FTSE 100 outside the index complier's quarterly...
[11 Oct 2006]
News Within months of the IPO in 2005 the company was valued at more than $12bn and PartyGaming became the first dot-com to break into the FTSE 100 index of leading shares since the madness of the dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
[06 Sep 2006]
Comment At the end of a long day, two long-time silicon.com contributors, Dr Richard Sykes and Mark Kobayashi-Hillary (both silicon.com Agenda Setters judges this year), were at the centre of an offshoring/outsourcing debate, which also took in speakers...
[06 Sep 2006]
News The day will consist of a mix of panels, featuring FTSE 100 CIOs, keynotes and clinics, as well as on-stage versions of the McCue Interview (with Suffolk) and CIO Jury, silicon.com's unique approach to gauging the opinions of top IT users.
[07 Aug 2006]
News Vodafone CIO Paul Wybrow has been voted the top private sector CIO in a poll of IT chiefs from FTSE 100 firms and IT suppliers. Wybrow came top of the poll with 18 per cent of the vote, followed by last year's winner Colin Cobain, IT director at...
[30 Jun 2006]
Case Study FTSE 250 company Punch Taverns is the largest pub and bar operator in the UK with more than 9,500 tenanted and managed pubs. UK pub group Punch Taverns is using business intelligence (BI) technology to help with acquisition due diligence and...
[12 Jun 2006]
Comment Despite being the obvious route to the top, a degree from a good university or an MBA isn't always necessary for the IT guy to break into the upper echelons of a FTSE 250 company. This is something United Business Media's (UBM) group CIO Matthew...
[22 May 2006]
News Peter Dew, CIO at FTSE 100 industrial gases giant BOC, said a failure by some companies to develop a comprehensive sourcing strategy in the past has resulted in the high number of rushed decisions to pull previously outsourced operations back in...
[02 Feb 2006]
Case Study The FTSE 100 FS company runs an annual survey that quantifies direct and indirect costs and, while precise numbers aren't yet forthcoming, A&L's Philbrooks reckons the Rhythmyx software is paying off already.
[11 Nov 2005]
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