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AS Analysis Coby has driven down IT costs by almost half at BA over the past five years, as well as driving new innovations such as online check-in, print-your-own boarding passes and a new ba.com website. In the past, few figures from user organisations have... [12 Oct 2007]
BT fails to unbundle silicon.com journalist
Comment At the time, BA claimed the problems were insignificant and were rather abrupt with us when we pressed them. Then the following day, a BA spokeswoman confessed that actually there was an itsy-bitsy problem with Babs. [20 Apr 2001]
AirTouch-Bell Atlantic-Vodafone: a ménage-à-trois made in heaven
Comment Bell Atlantic (BA), the US Baby Bell that serves most of the North-East of the country, covets AirTouch because a stronger mobile business would allow it to challenge AT&T, Nextel Communications and Sprint PCS Group as a nationwide provider of... [02 Jan 1999]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up BA has signed up with BT to provide the Openzone service in its 25 UK lounges - including the six at Heathrow's newly opened Terminal 5 - over the next three years. BA, the sole airline using Terminal 5, yesterday had to cancel flights due to the... [28 Mar 2008]
Why CIOs aren't talking so much about technology
Comment But Paul Coby, BA CIO and some shaver of about a third off that airline's IT costs, explained today's situation further. I set up a business transformation department [at BA]. So even though open source is making waves in the public and numerous... [09 Oct 2003]
Mind your language: Is English holding back ecommerce?
Comment BA seems confident its copy and paste-style website will be a success. Last year we had £60m in online ticket sales revenue and we are expecting the figure to grow to £250m by the end of this year," a BA spokeswoman told silicon.com. [11 Aug 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Are we heading towards a new dark age?
Comment Written from the BA lounge with free Wi-Fi, Miami Airport, Florida I have just picked up on a series of articles and projections that suggest we are heading toward a new technological dark age. The basic thesis appears to be that the rate of... [14 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The MP3 Wars, part 2
Comment Written and edited on BA 219 flying London to Denver and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service in Boulder, Colorado Just when we might have thought the MP3 wars were over and all the problems had gone away, up pops a new point of vexation for... [27 Jan 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition
Comment Written at the Beijing airport and despatched via a for-pay wi-fi service in the BA lounge. But then I discovered another five signals and the first one I tried at random turned out to be free. I grew up in a Nottinghamshire mining community where... [19 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Close encounters of the mobile kind
Comment Here I am at DFW airport in Texas, stranded in the BA lounge by a dust storm and high winds that have grounded everything. Written on BA2192 flying Dallas Fort Worth to London Gatwick Airport and dispatched to silicon.com via my home wi-fi... [27 Feb 2007]
The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects
Comment He has achieved that status by transforming BA into one of the most tech-savvy organisations in the world. Project failures suck all the attention away from IT's real contributions. So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important... [14 Apr 2008]
Who is Sony's new CEO?
Comment Holds BA and MA from Oxford University but soon after graduating moved to the US, where he has lived since. The news earlier this week that Sony had chosen a British executive as its new CEO, replacing longtime chief executive Nobuyuki Idei, caused... [08 Mar 2005]
Boardroom Despatches: Leadership
Comment With companies such as BA, BT, Marks and Spencer and plenty of others bossed by foreigners, it would be easy for me to forget the success of Britons abroad. What makes a good leader? Are we doing our best to foster them? [27 Aug 2003]
Leader: Mobile rollouts - let the people choose
Leader But BA is thinking differently. Today we heard that British Airways has taken a big step in how it handles the PDAs and smart phones used by certain staff. Traditionally, there are two approaches to a problem that affects most organisations now. [20 Apr 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Fly high Wi-Fi
Comment There will be a similar system called Tenzing, backed by rival commercial airline builder Airbus, but it is the Boeing-created set-up - soon to be used by others such as BA, Japan Airlines, SAS and Singapore Airlines as well as the German flag... [02 Jun 2004]
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