role it strategy
RSS role it strategyVirtualization from the Data Center to the Desktop
White Paper This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to help you build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for your organization. [25 Jul 2008]
UK games industry needs to go back to uni
News Also speaking at the event, Mary Matthews, strategy and business development director of Blitz Games Studios, conceded skills shortages in the UK "are constraining our business". The UK games industry needs to play a more active role in academia... [08 Jul 2008]
The Strategic Role of IT Culture in Business Performance
White Paper For IT to succeed in its new role, it is critical for IT culture to be aligned with the strategy and goals of the rest of the company. The role of IT is evolving. Once viewed as simply a support to the business, IT is now properly seen as key to... [03 Jul 2008]
Surviving the Paradigm Shift: How Financial Services Firms Can Assure Profitability and Continued Relevance in the New Economy
White Paper Armed with this information, financial service firms can execute an enlightened strategy to survive and prosper in the new economy. This paper explores the volatile market dynamics that have led to decreasing profit margins and increasing customer... [03 Jul 2008]
Skype calls on ex-Motorola exec
News Skype said that while in that position Durchslag "led product strategy, innovation, intellectual property, design, user interfaces, consumer experiences, partnerships, product marketing, and customer care". [02 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer…
Comment I'll have to read a lot of books and go out and do a lot of visits to play the right role in terms of strategy making and education. As long as I'm here, I'm still sending a lot of email and in a lot of meetings, and so the real change in terms of... [26 Jun 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Gates' chief software architect role is split officially between Ozzie and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. John Shewchuk According to Microsoft, Shewchuck "leads the Project Zurich architecture and strategy teams, which are... [24 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment Taylor joined as an interim CIO in the summer of 2006 with the organisation's IT strategy in a mess - a complex clearing IT platform, called the Generic Clearing System (GCS) was going off the rails while plans to outsource the IT production to... [17 Jun 2008]
Gordon Lovell-Read
CIO Profile That background has given him a rare mix of leadership capabilities and a proven track record in strategy, business transformation, change management, sales, marketing, consulting, project management and business development. [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Ailsa Beaton - director of information management at the Metropolitan Police Service where she manages the force's IT strategy and £300m tech budget - actually studied chemistry, then opted for a career in accountancy before being lured into the... [11 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment David Weymouth is responsible for the Royal & SunAlliance group's operations and technology strategy and development. He previously worked as a director at Harvey Nash and played a key role in growing the business and taking it public. [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile At HMV the CIO's priority is to align IT with business strategy to gain more value from it. Arthurs started out as an IT analyst at Beecham Group, then worked his way up the IT career ladder at Safeway over a period of 14 years, moving from an IT... [11 Jun 2008]
David Lister
CIO Profile Prior to that, Lister was at Boots, where he overhauled the health and beauty retailer's IT strategy with a £300m modernisation programme and major outsourcing deal with IBM. The role carries the title chief architect for RBS' group manufacturing... [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile Before joining Astra, Williams worked at audit and consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand where he led a number of IT strategy and application development programmes working with various pharmaceutical and consumer companies. [11 Jun 2008]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Steel has just been elected president of the public sector IT managers association, Socitm, and will spend most of his time this year on secondment there managing an ambitious change programme but will still have control of overall IT strategy at... [11 Jun 2008]
