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RSS mccue interviewGranger threatens "radical surgery" on costly NHS suppliers
News NHS IT director-general Richard Granger said in an interview in the FT today that "the suppliers are going to have to cut their prices". The head of the NHS' £5bn IT modernisation programme has warned that if suppliers for one of the contracts yet... [06 Jan 2004]
Desktop Linux - no cost savings, says Barclays CTO
News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Kevin Lloyd, CTO at bank Barclays, said Linux on the desktop for most companies will be limited to niche operational areas for many years to come. Check silicon.com on Monday for the full interview with... [19 Dec 2003]
£3bn tax system handover will go smoothly, says Cap Gemini
News In an interview with silicon.com, Martin Cook, CEO of the Aspire team at CGEY, said the company will be mobilising between 200 and 400 people to ensure the handover goes smoothly ahead of the formal switch in July next year. [17 Dec 2003]
BA tech plans to "revolutionise" airline industry
News BA's CIO Paul Coby reaffirmed its commitment to the technology investment behind its 'customer-enabled BA' programme in an exclusive interview with silicon.com this week following the release of rather gloomy financial results. [13 Nov 2003]
Hackers preying on patching headache
News This is the second part of our interview with two UK hackers dryice and frixion who were implicated in testimony during a recent trial over a denial of service attack on one of the largest ports in the US. [27 Oct 2003]
British Airways slashes £50m off IT budget
News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com BA's chief information officer, Paul Coby, revealed how the airline has taken major costs out of the IT infrastructure as part of a programme, IT21, implemented after the 11 September terrorist attacks. [19 May 2003]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment "Think about the alternative. That's NHS IT chief Richard Granger's response to the mounting criticism of the 10-year £7bn Connecting for Health (CfH) modernisation programme, which has been described as the largest civil IT project in the world. [26 May 2006]
Analysis: Who is the new government CIO?
Comment But with the CJIT programme officially due to come to an end in March 2008 it is perhaps no surprise that Suffolk was on the look out for a bigger challenge, telling silicon.com in a recent interview: "I look for big and horrible stuff. [26 Apr 2006]
Analysis: Can the public sector attract IT high-flyers?
Comment Speaking in a silicon.com interview last year Watmore said: "I didn't exactly take this job for the pay. The lack of senior IT management experience within the civil service has been cited by many a National Audit Office report as the reason for... [20 Apr 2006]
Election '05: Richard Allan on his political time
Comment It is not surprising there are so many high-profile government IT disasters given that the numbers of MPs who actually embrace and understand technology are few and far between. Sadly for Westminster and the wider tech industry, one of those few... [29 Apr 2005]
Analysis: E-procurement back on the agenda
Comment In an interview with silicon.com at the company's annual conference in Venice, Calderoni said the addition of FreeMarkets' services and consulting gives the company a huge cross-sell opportunity and gives it a much broader offering to fend off... [24 Feb 2004]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News Group CIO and technology director Dargue scored the most votes to top silicon.com's CIO50 2008 list of the 50 most influential and innovative IT leaders in the UK - read our exclusive in-depth interview with him here. [11 Jun 2008]
Tesco IT chief steps down
News A key part of this global expansion is the standardisation of business processes and IT systems across Tesco in a project called 'the operating model', which Cobain explained in a recent video interview with silicon.com. [14 Nov 2007]
Transport for London in outsourcing shake-up
News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com he said: "We may have given away one or two things we should have kept perhaps for ourselves. Read the full interview with TfL's Pavitt here. Transport for London (TfL) is undertaking a massive shake-up of... [30 Jul 2008]
Video: Whitbread CIO, Ben Wishart
Video In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Ben Wishart, change and information director at Whitbread - owner of hotel and restaurant chains Premier Inn, Brewer's Fayre and Costa Coffee - talks about his rise to the top from his days as a white... [30 Jul 2008]
