leaders ranks
Microsoft turns to Europe to fight the Google might
News Live Search currently serves about two billion queries worldwide per month but still ranks a distant third behind Google and Yahoo! Microsoft will set up a Search Technology Centre designed to help its Live Search gain... [06 Oct 2008]
The Naked CIO: Best backgrounds for CIOs?
Comment People take charge of IT from all kinds of backgrounds and they don't need to have risen through the tech ranks to be successful. Clearly not all CIOs come from the IT ranks. But operational... [18 Aug 2008]
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Personal Firewalls, 1Q06
White Paper This report summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main players in the PFW market and ranks those companies as Leaders, Visionaries, Challengers, or Niche Players based on their ability... [13 Dec 2007]
Techies "lack business and leadership skills"
News One answer is better training for IT professionals and Michael Elliot, Hasbro IT director, said: "The people who rose up through the ranks don't necessarily gain those sorts of skills as they progress. [13 Jun 2007]
Retailers ignoring their online shoppers
News Hitwise VP of research, Heather Hopkins, said Tesco and several high street department stores have made significant gains in the past year - with John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Woolworths all climbing in the ranks. [30 May 2007]
Leader: Are the kids really 'all that'?
Leader Google CEO Eric Schmidt has joined the growing ranks of tech leaders who are saying the coming generations of tech-savvy youngsters will pave the way for society as a whole to progress. No pressure now,... [19 Oct 2006]
The Professional CIO: Paul Burfitt, ex-CIO AstraZeneca
Comment The professional CIO is the company insider closest to the traditional image of the top IT executive and someone who has worked their way up through the ranks over the years on performance and merit. Although 59-year-old... [20 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: "Love" your top IT staff or lose them
News Also, if we as IT leaders are doing our job correctly we shouldn't be worried when we do lose talent to elsewhere as we'll have nurtured other stars coming up through the ranks. The IT 'war for talent'... [31 Oct 2005]
Leader: Less of a leader than your colleagues in marketing?
Leader There are some great leaders that have come through its ranks - and this publication knows many of them - but, as yet, this is still an area of business that isn't as well-rounded as areas such as... [02 Jul 2004]
Marketers the future of UK business - not techies
News It takes time to go through the management ranks and there aren't a lot of born leaders. Marketing professionals make better business leaders than technologists - quite possibly because... [02 Jul 2004]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: "I'm a celebrity CIO"
Comment Sure, not all have come up through the IT ranks - something columnist Rene Carayol lamented recently in a piece provocatively called 'The death of the CIO' - but they are hammering home that the only thing that matters... [06 Feb 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Leadership
Comment He is a cop's cop who has risen through the ranks over a 40-year career yet at the same time a radical moderniser. Let's recognise one thing - in the UK we're not blessed with an abundance of good leaders. [27 Aug 2003]
Dell and Oracle launch assault on $1bn app server market
News Oracle ranks third with 12 per cent of the bundled application server market, behind leaders IBM and BEA, according to analyst firm Gartner. By Wylie Wong Dell customers will soon be offered access to... [12 Aug 2002]
Online investment takes a chunk of Guardian profits
News UK Newspapers have to date been offering online content as a loss-leader, however, The Times is the first to break ranks and announce plans to start charging for online content. Guardian Media Group has announced a dip... [06 Sep 2001]
Ebusiness despatches: René Carayol on e-leadership
Comment However, many of us have come through ranks of IT management where value is put on being cautious, risk averse, subordinate, too keen to please and eager to say yes. There are leaders and operational... [07 Nov 2000]
