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Are consultants a waste of money?

News Chris Broad, head of IM and technology, UKAEA The warning comes on the heels of a report by MPs this week that revealed the public sector wastes more than £500m a year on the unnecessary and poor use of consultants.

Tags: consultants, cio jury

[21 Jun 2007]

CIO Essentials: Underwater Google Earth, Microsoft's Milan and BlackBerrys

News Ever wondered what CIOs are reading on silicon.com? Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past week and explains why they matter.

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[05 Jun 2007]

CIOs dump environmentally unfriendly suppliers

News Chris Broad, head of IM&T, UKAEA Environmental footprint and energy-efficiency will increasingly be a factor in the selection of technology suppliers and partners, according to CIOs. A report by Greenpeace this week names and shames the least...

Tags: cio jury, green

[05 Apr 2007]

CIO Jury: Thin client is "the way forward"

News UKAEA IT director Chris Broad said this minimises support costs and bandwidth utilisation. Cost savings and security benefits are driving CIOs to increasingly deploy thin-client computing in their IT infrastructure.

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[20 Oct 2006]

CIO Jury: $100 laptop is "fundamentally flawed"

News Chris Broad, head of IS&T, UKAEA Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to distribute the wind-up Linux laptops to children in developing countries was dealt a blow last week when India ditched plans to order a million of the devices...

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[31 Jul 2006]

CIO Jury: Businesses "obsessed" with IT metrics

News Chris Broad, head of information systems and technology at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), said: "The old adage that if you can't measure it you can't manage it still applies. Chris Broad, head of IS&T, UKAEA

Tags: benchmarking, cio jury, governance

[21 Apr 2006]

CIO Jury: In-sourcing - the new outsourcing?

News Chris Broad, head of IS&T, UKAEA Insourcing will continue to emerge as a new trend this year as businesses seek to reverse bad outsourcing decisions and regain more control over their IT costs and operations, according to UK CIOs.

Tags: insourcing, outsourcing, cio jury

[02 Feb 2006]

CIO Jury: Smart mobile devices spark IT headache

News Chris Broad, head of IS&T, UKAEA The adoption of ever smarter mobile devices and the wide range of digital media and content that can be accessed on them is causing security, management and licensing headaches for IT departments, according to UK IT...

Tags: cio jury, 3g

[19 Jan 2006]

CIO Jury: IT chiefs question UK's global competitiveness

News Chris Broad, head of IS&T, UKAEA The UK will lose its fight to compete with the new Asian economies in the information age because of a poor education system, a lack of entrepreneurs, high taxation and red tape, according to leading UK IT chiefs.

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[30 Sep 2005]

Chris Broad

Q&A Employer and official job title: UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA); head of information systems and technology. Nature of organisation and total headcount: UKAEA is a nuclear decommissioning organisation; 300+ employees and contractors.

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[13 Sep 2005]

CIO Jury: ISPs blamed over corporate security threats

CIO Jury: ISPs blamed over corporate security threats

News But not all pointed the finger of blame at ISPs and Chris Broad, head of IS and technology at UKAEA, said: "Do we blame the Post Office for carrying spam letters? Chris Broad, head of IS and technology, UKAEA

Tags: zombie, botnets, phishing, spam

[09 Sep 2005]

CIO Jury: IT chiefs not yet planning for Windows Vista

News Chris Broad, head of IS and technology, UKAEA Microsoft's 'next generation' version of Windows - originally codenamed Longhorn - is not due for a full release until some time in 2007 but the software giant has now revealed it will be called...

Tags: vista, cio jury, windows

[03 Aug 2005]

CIO Jury: Risk and innovation key to driving IT value

News Chris Broad, head of IS and technology at UKAEA, said that while simply caretaking ancient systems is not acceptable, being the first to do something is "probably not a good idea". Chris Broad, head of IS and technology, UKAEA

[21 Jul 2005]

CIO Jury: IT departments have no WEEE worries

News Chris Broad, head of information systems and technology at UKAEA, said: "It was a driver in getting our reuse and disposal process sorted, resulting in an overall saving. Chris Broad, head of information systems and technology, UKAEA

Tags: cio jury, weee

[30 Jun 2005]

CIO Jury: Have IT bosses lost control?

CIO Jury: Have IT bosses lost control?

News Both Davesh Shukla, London City Airport and Chris Broad, head of IT at the UKAEA, agreed that CIOs should be involved in business strategy while retaining control over the technology that then underpins it.

Tags: control, cio jury

[08 Jun 2005]

CIO Jury: Does outsourcing work?

CIO Jury: Does outsourcing work?

News Chris Broad, head of IT at the UKAEA, agree. Chris Broad, head of IT, UKAEA Another report this week also found that one in five outsourcing deals is terminated due to poor performance. So we asked our silicon.com CIO Jury user panel of IT bosses...

Tags: outsourcing, cio jury

[02 Jun 2005]

CIO Jury: IT leaders slam national ID card plans

CIO Jury: IT leaders slam national ID card plans

News John Odell, group IT director at the BBA Group, described it as a "20-year fee-fest" for many IT suppliers while Chris Broad, head of information systems and technology at the UK Atomic Energy Association (UKAEA) raised concerns about the scope of...

Tags: identity cards, id cards, cio jury

[27 May 2005]

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