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Mike Altendorf

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Mike Altendorf is founder and joint managing director of web services company Conchango. Having studied at Loughborough University of Technology Altendorf joined the IT department of a major corporation before setting out on his own with Conchango. The company was acquired by storage systems vendor EMC in April 2008.


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Four IT trends for 2012

Mike Altendorf predicts the hotspots of the CIO's worry wall

Information for sale

If departments can buy their own commodity IT, where does that leave today’s CIO?

Building a legacy

A tendency to add new applications without retiring legacy systems has left us with over-complicated, inefficient technology

The emperor's new clothes and other stories

Big software players' attempts to fight social networking newcomers by adopting similar trappings is doomed to failure

Xfactor and other 2010 Eureka moments

The new decade looks up for CIOs

The CIO = the man that can?

2012 predictions - it's going to be the year of the CIO

The nature of nurture to build a strong IT team

Pushing your staff to discover hidden talents will create a buzz that prospective employees can't resist

Young, gifted and British

CIOs, the talent you need to transform your IT department is out there. Go and find it.

Build the buzz about your business & IT if you want talented staff

T is for talent...

SCVNGR is the next big thing in social media

Gaming company takes social networking out into the real world




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