programme robin

Nationwide hands network reins to BT

News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Nationwide's infrastructure will sit on BT's next generation 21CN network as part of a service transformation programme. Nationwide Building Society has signed a seven-year £160m deal with BT to outsource the management of... [30 Jun 2008]

Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices

News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Gartner claimed that around 10 per cent of companies have some form of employee-owned-device programme. Gartner claimed that an employee-owned-notebook programme needs to contain four key elements: a technology solution to... [30 Jun 2008]

Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit

News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Trying to find other prices in order to check 'like for like' can be challenging for users, as analyst Tony Lock, programme director at Freeform Dynamics, explained on Monday. The company's core software has risen in price... [24 Jun 2008]

MI5 seeking changeable techies

News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Part technical lead and part strategic-shaper, you will work closely with the Security Service's front-line and Enterprise Architecture teams to set the overall technical direction for each programme and develop detailed... [23 Jun 2008]

Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"

News Robin Dargue Royal Mail He said: "Quite frankly we found out in the first six months that our customers don't want to consume software via an exchange so we have morphed that into a fully fledged open-source ISV programme. [20 Jun 2008]

Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed

News Royal Mail's Robin Dargue has been voted the UK's top CIO as he embarks on a mammoth technology-based £2bn transformation programme aimed at making the 360-year-old organisation leaner and able to compete better in the deregulated postal market. [11 Jun 2008]

The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail

Comment Robin Dargue has long been known as something of a high-flyer in CIO circles - and that's not just about his hobby of flying planes (more of which later). The scale of Royal Mail - 80 million letters and packets handled each day, 24 million... [11 Jun 2008]

Robin Dargue

CIO Profile For Robin Dargue the next challenge was Royal Mail, who he joined as group CIO and technology director at the end of 2007, replacing the retiring David Burden. The Royal Mail hired Dargue to lead a £2bn IT-based transformation programme and he has... [11 Jun 2008]

BBC signs up with iTunes

News Shows available include Life on Mars, Spooks and Robin Hood. Each programme will cost £1.89 to download. A range of BBC television programmes are now available for download at Apple's UK iTunes store. [19 Feb 2008]

High tech training for chefs of tomorrow

News Robin Ghurbhurun Lewisham College's director of e-learning told silicon.com: "The staff can record the whole session and that can then be edited down into e-learning chunks. Cisco provides the hardware for its network and also works with the... [06 Nov 2006]

Editor's Blog: Post-CIO Forum

Comment OK, so I knew where the gongs were going, having been a judge way back at the start of the summer, spanning the judges' day in July, right up to catching up with Sir Robin Saxby a week or two ago to film his acceptance speech for winning the... [28 Sep 2006]

London Stock Exchange speeds its feeds

News It does it in two milliseconds," says Robin Paine, the LSE's CTO. Infolect is part of a four-year programme of change, Paine said. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has completed a major project that will give dealers faster access to prices than... [18 Jul 2006]

Doctors sceptical of £6bn NHS IT project

News Robin Guenier, chairman of Medix, told silicon.com: "When we started doing this survey, they [doctors] were quite enthusiastic. Doctors are becoming increasingly sceptical of the £6.2bn NHS IT programme as plans to create a national database of... [10 Jan 2006]

Irish bank chooses Sun and Linux

News Earlier this year, Robin Wilton, Sun's JDS programme manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, alluded to the "hard bargain" an unnamed bank had negotiated with the software maker over a JDS deployment. [29 Jun 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: CIO tactics, Hi-Fi using Wi-Fi and free software

Comment Graphs can be used to plot and monitor ROI versus risk for each project or programme, strategy maps can be used to show how each initiative contributes to the business objectives, and benefit realisation chains can show how each project... [29 Mar 2004]

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