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Behind the Headlines: Experts predict demise of the IT director

News The end of the role of IT director is nigh, according to IT experts appearing on this week's Behind the Headlines programme. The role of the IT director has featured widely in this year's news as IT has soared to the very top of business agendas.

[19 Dec 1999]

M&S axes IT director in night of the long knives

News Marks and Spencer (M&S) IT and Logistics director, John Sacher CBE has been sacked in a radical reshuffling of the retailer's top jobs. Keith Bogg, divisional director at the company, who was also Sacher's second in command, will take on...

[25 Feb 1999]

What if... the sales and marketing director was put in charge of IT?

Comment Let me state it one more time: a sales and marketing director with full authority over the IT department and its budget! One candidate is the sales and marketing director. Dale Vile is service director at analyst house Quocirca.

[06 Mar 2002]

The <strong>Director</strong>'s Cut: Eight secrets <strong>of</strong> marrying <strong>IT</strong> and business

The Director's Cut: Eight secrets of marrying IT and business

Comment The IT director who is serious about delivering a quantifiable and measurable ROI must do many things differently: Just when we were on the point of convincing our chief executives that we are an investment worth investing in, along came a...

[03 Dec 2003]

The Director's Cut: The Scrooge of IT past

Comment The IT director broke the silence. They got their bonuses," the IT director replied in disgust. And before he could say anymore.it was twelve months earlier, and they were in the middle of the general office.

[22 Dec 2000]

Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd

Comment Graham Linehan has written a string of popular UK comedy sitcoms, from Father Ted's eccentric group of Catholic priests on Craggy Island, to a grumpy bookstore owner in Black Books - and his most recent endeavour, The IT Crowd, about an IT support...

Tags: channel 4, it crowd, graham linehan

[12 Oct 2007]

IT Director’s Reference Series: Managing Security Audits

whitepaper The IT infrastructure is a corporation's most valuable asset, delivering competitive advantages, processing the bulk of business transactions, and storing confidential information on all areas of the company, including financial data, customer and...

Tags: network security, prepare, proactively, audits

[17 Dec 2004]

Carnegie Mellon opens IT director college

News The professional IT complex will be developed in partnership with Nasa, which will supply 212 acres of land in return for access to Carnegie Mellon's pure technology research. Training IT directors has become a priority in Silicon Valley, where...

[27 Jan 2000]

Online advice: professional company seeks IT director

News John Irving, independent IT consultant and founder of Professional IT Staff.com, said the site was aimed at helping professions, such as accounting and law, fill the IT gap. An online recruitment service to help law firms find IT directors is to...

[07 Oct 1999]

My <strong>IT</strong> <strong>director</strong> went to CA World and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

My IT director went to CA World and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

News One of the world's largest software companies, Computer Associates (CA), is charging for its logoed conference T-shirts at its annual CA World event. Those attendees who wish to purchase the T-shirt can buy it from the CA shop located at the...

[22 Apr 2002]

Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger

Comment 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.

Tags: nhs cfh, richard granger, freedom of information act, nhs

[26 May 2006]

The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice <strong>IT</strong> <strong>director</strong>-general John Suffolk

The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice IT director-general John Suffolk

Comment Bird flu is on John Suffolk's mind at the moment - nothing to do with his day job in charge of the government's £2bn Criminal Justice IT programme, unsurprisingly, but rather his other life running a rare breed conservation farm with his wife in...

Tags: john suffolk, cjit

[06 Mar 2006]

Ex-Andersen chief coins it in as captains of industry flock to the Web

News According to Ann Jamieson, managing director of PriceJamieson, the trend will soon hit the UK. The latest predictions for this Friday's Nasdaq flotation of Internet grocery start-up Webvan have put the firm's market capitalisation at $4.1bn.

[06 Oct 1999]

Eight out of ten high-tech workers want to stay in IT

News Chris Setz, director of the Network Professional Association, added: "People like working in IT and the figure has shot up in the last ten years. Over 80 per cent of IT professionals see themselves having a long-term career in technology, according...

[02 Mar 2000]

Forty-two per cent <strong>of</strong> <strong>IT</strong> directors have broken data laws

Forty-two per cent of IT directors have broken data laws

News Ian Clarke, director of enterprise management solutions, Compuware EMEA, said: "Many companies simply aren't aware of the wider implications of the Data Protection Act. Forty-two per cent of IT directors have broken the law by using real customer...

[24 Sep 2002]

End <strong>of</strong> the road for car makers' inhouse <strong>IT</strong>

End of the road for car makers' inhouse IT

News Patrick Meyer, director of corporate communications at commerce One, said: "We're determined to see Covisint succeed. The move is part of a cost cutting scheme by the company as it tries to meet a $280bn transaction target within the next year.

[22 May 2001]

US firms get more out of IT than UK rivals

News John Higgins, director general of tech supplier body Intellect, added in a statement: "Countries that adopt, adapt and absorb the benefits of ICT, services and applications quickly and deeply will achieve significant benefits in terms of...

Tags: productivity

[10 Oct 2005]

Training up for the business of IT

Comment Some of our respondents even said the traditional IT degree is counterproductive: "'Computer Science degree - you'd be better off with Wood Technology', is the attitude of some employers," said Tony Larks, director of sales and marketing at The...

[07 Feb 1999]

The nine projects at the heart <strong>of</strong> NHS <strong>IT</strong>

The nine projects at the heart of NHS IT

News Alan Brown, director of information management and technology, West London Mental Health Trust, is already seeing the N3 national broadband network in action. The NHS is part way through one of the world's biggest IT projects, a colossal £6.2bn...

Tags: nhs it

[19 Jan 2006]

Behind the Headlines: An era <strong>of</strong> design and <strong>IT</strong> unity

Behind the Headlines: An era of design and IT unity

News Dr Jacques Hale, director of methods research at the Butler Group, drew a comparison with graphic trading displays used on stock market floors. According to Rene Carayol, CEO of Voodoo, with the enormous amount of data now available on the internet...

[30 Mar 2001]

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