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How the IMF's Korean bail-out led to cheap chip chaos
Comment When the Asian economy spiralled out of control, analysts predicted it would have a major impact on the worldwide chip market. When the IMF stepped in to lend the Korean government a hand, nobody anticipated it would intensify the impact... [19 Aug 1998]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Are you a windscreen or a fly?
Comment Quocirca's Rob Bamforth offers a new paradigm for discussing the trends which led to the convergence of the IT, telecoms and media industries - and for making sure your business isn't surprised by upstarts. [11 Aug 2006]
Leader: Compliance time
Leader The word compliance means different things to different people and now it seems that - after the excesses of the tech bubble that led to so much wrongdoing - we are now in an era where stringent financial and other rules... [17 Jan 2005]
Women in IT: Is there really a problem?
Comment But Laura Stobart wonders whether that's quite the problem we're being led to believe. Many of the tech professionals I know ended up in the industry because a hobby became a job (or a qualification that... [30 Jan 2003]
Peter Hambling
CIO Profile Peter Hambling has just taken on the top IT role at insurance exchange Lloyds of London in May of this year after two years as head of sales delivery for HSBC's UK retail network, where he led a team creating a... [06 Jun 2007]
IT outsourcing: The times they are a-changing
Comment Recent deals that have led to this include the Abbey National's £70m desktop services deal with Computacenter and Barclays $350m deal with EDS. This has led to an opening up of the market with the likes... [15 Jul 2003]
Leader: EDS back in spotlight with £4bn MoD deal
Leader Had the EDS-led Atlas consortium not bagged the landmark deal it would have almost certainly signalled the end of the Texas company as a major force in the UK public sector, as it had failed to get a piece of the £6bn... [02 Mar 2005]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile During the three years under private equity ownership, Didcock led the AA separation from previous parent company Centrica, and the creation of a new standalone IS organisation with operating cost savings of more than 40... [11 Jun 2008]
How to avoid an ERP disaster
Comment Examples include MFI, which was thrown £46m into the red as a result of technical problems with the rollout of a SAP-based supply chain system, which led to inventory shortages and incomplete orders being sent out, and... [12 Jul 2006]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile He was previously the VP of commercial information systems for the US arm of the pharmaceutical company where he led CRM and patient/physician connectivity projects, along with the development of the company's online... [11 Jun 2008]
Leader: Can online gambling clean up its act?
Leader We can hope they will listen but while questions over how we gamble may seem important to us, with our consumer-led, disposable income-fed lifestyle, other countries aren't likely to lose sleep over such a matter. [17 Jan 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Say 'no' to walled gardens
Comment This mentality led to the so called 'walled garden' approach of the early days, in which the mobile operators confined mobile access to services within their own portals, and created an impression that the mobile... [29 Jul 2005]
Leader: Trust the private sector to train us?
Leader This sort of vendor-led training - which usually includes donating software and curriculum to those being trained - is nothing new and Microsoft is certainly not alone in its efforts. And yet you can bet... [01 Feb 2007]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader Hutton referred to the clinical consultation as a "sham" that has led to the procurement of systems that don't meet clinical needs, while Nowlan said the rush to sign contracts "trumped all other aspects of consideration". [27 Jun 2006]
HP and its Linux-based Thai PC
Comment The act led to speculation as to whether a new Linux-based HP product line would be offered in other parts of Asia and the rest of the world. The Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) ministry... [23 May 2003]
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