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News John Higgins, director general of Intellect, said: "Every discussion we have with the members about what would help the sector focuses on the ability to get hold of the calibre of people they want. Richard Holway, of Farnham Consulting, warned the...
[14 May 2008]
News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post - filled by Richard Granger until January this year.silicon.com Public Sector
[28 Apr 2008]
News Matthew Swindells was acting as interim boss of the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) following the departure of NHS IT director general, Richard Granger, at the beginning of the year. The department is currently in the process of...
[15 Apr 2008]
News Need help securing the dream job? Microsoft's director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow, said he expects IBM and its allies to launch "an orchestrated process attack in the hope of overturning the ratification of OOXML or at least to discredit...
[04 Apr 2008]
Round-Up The argument goes thus: the role and responsibilities of the CIO and the IT department are so Byzantine it's hard for the rest of the business to work out whether the CIO is actually doing a good or bad job - or indeed anything at all.
[07 Mar 2008]
News Automated biometric systems will eventually replace the often laborious system of repeated manual passport and security checks that plague fliers today, said Matthew Finn, director of government and security for airline industry IT body Sita.
[21 Feb 2008]
News Confusion surrounds the future of the job running the NHS' £12.4bn flagship IT programme and the timetable for the departure of director-general Richard Granger. The prospects for the IT director-general's role will not become clear until a review...
[15 Jan 2008]
News Giancarlo has taken a job as managing director and partner at Silver Lake, an investment company focused on large-scale investments in technology. His first day at the new job will be 2 January 2008. But as Chambers indicated earlier this year, he...
[21 Dec 2007]
News NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his role in charge of the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) and Connecting for Health (CfH) in June and the timetable for his departure has now been confirmed.
[05 Dec 2007]
Comment My role was IT director for about seven organisations, including South East Water. My first view of IT was being asked to look after the Unix boxes in the university engineering department and I thought I would do a better job in IT," he says.
[27 Nov 2007]
News Neil Munroe, external affairs director for Equifax, said in a statement: "The problem is that people don't realise the significance of the kind of information they are putting out on the web and who may be accessing it.
[23 Jul 2007]
News The panellists said they were impressed with search engines like ZoomInfo.com, the job candidate search engine, and Mahalo, the search engine started by publishing entrepreneur Jason Calacanis that uses human-created results for the most popular...
[29 Jun 2007]
News NHS IT director general Richard Granger announced he is to quit the post later this year after five years in charge of the world's biggest civilian IT project - the £12.4bn national NHS IT programme. There will come a time where the job is better...
[18 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Prior to his current role Suffolk was director-general of the government's £2bn Criminal Justice IT programme. Suffolk's route to the top job in government IT is via 25 years in both the public and private sectors, including roles as a business...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile US-born Harvey joined HSBC in 1989 and has risen steadily through the ranks in a range of roles along the way to landing the top IT job, including VP of HSBC's Canadian operations, director of banking systems, IT director of HFC Bank and group...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment In 1994 she moved to Mars as sales and marketing systems director. Before that she was group director of IS procurement and logistics and MD for South East Europe at Novar, a building system conglomerate.
[18 Oct 2006]
Photo In defence of Google: Ken Davis, IT director at Channel 5, said: "If the tech we put within our firewalls was half as effective as Google we wouldn't be having this discussion. Asked why CIOs and heads of IT often miss out when the top job of CEO...
[26 Sep 2006]
News People briefed on HP's review of its internal investigation say it was authorised by Dunn and put under the supervision of Kevin Hunsaker, a senior counsel who is the company's director of ethics, according to the Post.
[21 Sep 2006]
News New employment laws come into force on 1 October when it will become illegal for companies to deny a job or promotion to anyone because of their age, while job adverts will not be able to call for "young" or "enthusiastic" workers or specify a...
[14 Sep 2006]
News Director George Keyworth resigned from the board on Tuesday. On Tuesday, HP said Dunn would step down as chairman in January and turned over that job to CEO Mark Hurd. Dunn will remain a director. California's attorney general Bill Lockyer said in...
[14 Sep 2006]
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