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IT sector: Not so bad after all

News Three-quarters of IT professionals would recommend an IT career to their children, a survey by careers website The IT Job Board has found. The IT Job Board said that the overall outlook for IT careers was positive.

Tags: work, tech, skills

[15 May 2008]

New president takes the reins at Socitm

News He is also a member of the Identity and Passport Service local government advisory board. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe Richard Steel has been named president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), the professional...

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

[29 Apr 2008]

Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'

News He said: "V1, which does SC 34 work in Incits, was at a stalemate, and Incits cast a US vote that represented political decisions by the board rather than technical consideration of the issues. The recent experience shows that that is full of...

Tags: ooxml, iso, microsoft, vista

[21 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food

Comment After that experience I'm sure they would go back to the drawing board and do a much better job. The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe Over the past few weeks, Heathrow T5 has had so much bad press it has become a national embarrassment more quickly...

Tags: pilots, design, testing, t5

[14 Apr 2008]

The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes

Comment Business alignment is not a one-way street and takes the rest of the board to believe that it can hold value. My excitement lasted until the first board meeting. I was elated when I finally got a place on the board.

Tags: careers, boardroom, stereotypes, board

[07 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars

Comment The rest - the vast majority - have about a decade to take on board the significance of this opportunity for video conferencing and advanced gaming, not to mention for all the education, healthcare and business applications.

Tags: formats, blu-ray, dvd, storage

[17 Mar 2008]

Want to make CIO? Then don't go into tech…

News The findings reflect the views of silicon.com's CIO Jury which agreed techies lack the business and leadership skills to operate at board level. Aspiring CIOs should try to gain experience in non-IT roles in order to have the right experience to...

Tags: cio, board, it, skills

[06 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users

Comment So I realise there are those on the board who will interpret any changes in this area as a personal attack. Over the first few months of my new job I have been trying to sort out the whole home working issue.

Tags: home working, games, management, support

[04 Feb 2008]

Motorola CEO Zander to step down

News A Motorola spokesman said Zander had "decided to retire", adding: "The board and Ed Zander agreed it was the right time for him to transition the role of CEO to Greg Brown and Ed remains committed to Motorola and assisting Greg and the company...

Tags: motorola, razr, zander, president

[30 Nov 2007]

Fresh tech talent in demand next year

News Recent turbulence in the banking sector has not affected graduate hiring plans in the financial services industry, according to a poll conducted by tech grad recruitment site the IT Job Board. The UK economy may be shivering in chill winds from...

Tags: skills, recruitment, graduates, survey

[23 Nov 2007]

Oracle: 'Any fresh BEA bid would be lower'

News Two weeks ago, BEA's board approved a change-in-control severance plan that covers all full-time employees and part-time employees who work 20 hours or more per week, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Tags: oracle, bea, bid, scale

[16 Nov 2007]

Sharp rise in demand for helpdesk staff

News Demand for junior and graduate entry-level helpdesk positions has increased by 45 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest skills report from online recruitment company The IT Job Board.

Tags: it job board, crm, erp, helpdesk

[23 Oct 2007]

How to survive the first 100 days as CIO

News Other important things for a new CIO to get their head around might include corporate governance - details of who is on the management committee, where the board is meeting, how the audit committee works and how investment is done.

Tags: management, career, cio

[22 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07

Round-Up So back to the drawing board again for the Zune. Not that the Round-Up is insinuating anything, far from it - she's the chief financial officer of Microsoft's entertainment and devices division, which, the Xbox 360 aside, sounds like a nice, quiet...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[07 Sep 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics

Comment As part of the process I was interviewed by a board responsible for gathering industry views on the topic. Management by very large numbers of metrics always leads to a layered dishonesty where people do their job as best they can, and then report...

Tags: education, metrics, peter cochrane, management

[28 Aug 2007]

Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook

Comment I frequently find my similar fears, that today's IT Directors are too obsessed with promotion to the Board and yet don't understand their own business, are shared with a wide cross-section of the industry.

Tags: facebook, cyber crime, kids, ageism

[23 Aug 2007]

Skills Survey 2007: Offshoring still a hot potato

News This compares to less than a third of CIOs, and just over a third of board-level executives and IT managers. However, according to The Work Foundation report: "Indian business insiders see future offshore outsourcing as an advantage for Europe...

Tags: it workers, skills survey, india, offshoring

[21 Aug 2007]

Sun plans job cuts

News It's not immediately clear whether any new information came to light during those two days that may have prompted the board to approve the job cuts in order to meet the newly set expectations. Sun's board of directors approved the job cuts last...

Tags: jonathan schwartz , job cuts, sun

[08 Aug 2007]

Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake

Comment Now quite a few of us like these kind of internet age uber-experiments but at a silicon.com editorial board dinner last night the subject came up of just how useful these networks are or will end up being.silicon.com columnist and well-known...

Tags: privacy, linkedin, facebook, social networking

[31 Jul 2007]

Semel quits as Yahoo! CEO

News Semel, meanwhile, will assume the position of nonexecutive chairman and serve as an adviser to the management team and board of directors. As the board and I discussed my future goals and plans I was clear in telling them of my desire to take a...

Tags: yahoo

[19 Jun 2007]

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