Mark Chillingworth

CIO May 2013 issue editorial

As CIO UK announces the 2013 CIO 100 the volume calling for CIOs to forge closer relationships with the CMO or to become digital sales and marketing experts increases daily. read more

Fashion house Paul Smith has long taken classic British style to the wider world. Now head of IT Lee Bingham is helping deliver the same quality to online shoppers

Pre- and post-London Olympics the world has been covered in British design. Union Jacks, the original Alec Issigonis Minis and the Rolling Stones seem to appear on T-shirts, bags, posters and other accessories no matter where in the world you are. But this is no new Cool Britannia boom – British company Paul Smith has been championing home-grown design and has become a world leader in fashion, design and retail since its iconic founder formed his company in Nottingham in the late 1960s and opened his first shop in 1970. read more

Broadcasting is undergoing a digital revolution to make its content available to users wherever, whenever and however they want it, says NBC's Jordan

Andrew Jordan is a communicator. He describes everything succinctly and his use of metaphor makes difficult subjects easy to grasp. read more

Manufacturing giant GE is really eight companies in one. EMEA CIO Neil Dyke finds common technology ground...

It may not be a British company, but the General Electric Company – better known as GE – is critical to the British economy. The UK is the second largest employee base for GE after the US. In the Mayfair office of corporate CIO Neil Dyke is a pair of maps that show the scope of his role – one is of Africa and the other of the UK, the latter showing GE’s sites in places such as Truro in Cornwall, the Midlands, Wales, Scotland and of course the London HQ. read more

Giving the citizens of Suffolk the services they want by involving them in IT strategy

"The enthusiasm to take risks and make big changes is pretty healthy," says Mark Adams-Wright, CIO of Suffolk County Council. At the council's Ipswich headquarters he describes the journey the authority is on to become a thriving community that subtly embraces technology while remaining a rural idyll. read more

New look is cleaner and introduces CIO Career channel for key advice

“All good things come to those that wait”, so the saying goes, and the re-development of the CIO UK website seems to have lived up to this maxim. The new-look CIO has been taking shape for some time now and it really is wonderful to write this and watch the site make its first wobbly pedal strokes out into the real world. read more

With its in-store, online and mobile strategies underpinned by technology, Boots and its IT director Jonathan Vardon find the High Street in good health

In the wake of one of the worst starts to a year for the retail sector, Boots the chemist chain, remains - no pun intended - in good health. Its stores remain popular with customers, it has a presence in all the key channels, it fared better than some in the ongoing corporate tax scandal and it continues to grow as an international brand. read more

While the property sector has suffered heavily during the recession, Philip Van Enis of consultancy Bidwells has spent the last four years building solid IT foundations

"We are more profitable now than when we were in 2006 as we have been more efficient," says Philip Van Enis, IT director of Bidwells, a property consultancy that is coping well with the drastic slowdown the property industry has witnessed during the downturn. read more

No sector or vertical is immune to the onset of consumerisation. Aston Martin and NHS Trust CIOs describe their management response to consumer-led business technology

The technical impact of the consumerisation of IT can be disruptive to CIOs, but a less well considered aspect is the impact to organisational management processes. read more

With his influence extending from Telefonica's Madrid HQ to China and Latin America, 'think global, act local' is the mantra for Phil Jordan, worldwide CIO of the telecoms giant

"I think this is the opening up of a digital economy, and every business is wrestling with that," says Phil Jordan, Group CIO for Telefonica, the worldwide telecommunications company. read more

The big cat bites back

A difficult past isn't stopping Jaguar Land Rover and its CIO Jeremy Vincent from hunting down an exciting future read more

Taking the credit

Its new payment processing platform is live, but the pace of change at an increasingly technology-led Visa Europe shows no sign of letting up, says its CIO Steve Chambers read more