Change management

New OS isn't expected to ever reach 50% adoption in workplace PCs, according to the IT research firm

Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft's operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company's history, will not achieve enough adoption in enterprises to be considered a standard, according to Forrester Research. read more

Chris Taylor discusses agility, mobility and why the cloud is key to transforming a modern business

News International CIO Chris Taylor wants to move all the company's infrastructure to the cloud to help drive their transformation from a "great newspaper company to a multimedia giant". read more

Survey reveals heap of unused applications

Windows XP to Windows 7 migration difficulties are being exaggerated by many organisations because they are over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey suggests. read more

People and processes must accelerate as IT develops more quickly

For much of the last decade IT has become something of a pantomime villain, frequently held responsible as the inhibitor holding back business. read more

Industry CIO on change management, innovation, compliance, data management, budgeting, the cloud and risk

What are the pressures currently experienced by insurance industry CIOs and CTOs who are required to support business change, differentiation and innovation while maintaining a stable system of records - and all in these times of austerity? read more

Mrs Transformation

Lessons we can all take from the transformations led by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher read more

The challenges of selling hosted applications, consolidating the Quest portfolio and the state of innovation in enterprise software

John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organising it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and services-driven company. 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

Part one of the CIO UK interview series with the new cross governmental CTO

The government is scrapping the cross-government CIO role. Since the coalition took office in 2010 there has been a significant level of CIO churn in Whitehall. Liam Maxwell, currently the Government CTO, has risen through the ranks and is considered to be a major reformer. CIO UK met with Maxwell recently to discuss a wide range of issues, including the politics of his role, the Government Digital Service, G-Cloud, SME vendors and – of course – cuts. read more

To what extent must organisations restructure to take advantage of the new digital reality

The world is going digital. If you don't realise this yet, it may be time to crawl out from under that rock. But just what do we mean by going digital? Is this just another passing fad or perhaps a new spin on an old story? The answer in both cases is "no". read more