The 2012 CIO 100 is our ranking of the top CIOs in the UK. This listing awards the IT leaders and company directors that are transforming their organisations through technology leadership.
Welcome to the latest CIO 100 which has gone through a significant transformation over the last 12 months. And I use the word transformation to describe it and its editorial agenda. At CIO UK we believe CIOs are the engines for business transformation and as your title, we believe CIOs will drive positive transformation through their organisations.
Since 2008 the world economy, and in particular the European economy, has been a difficult environment to operate in. A wider analysis of the growth of the BRIC economies, the rising cost of energy and commodities shows that even in better times our organisations will have to transform the way they operate in order to protect themselves and to serve their customers and workforce appropriately. Technology is the ally organisations will benefit most from an alliance with. But success will only result if CIOs embrace the transformation agenda and organisations and their boards understand that if they do not engage with, understand, promote and lobby for technology led transformation they will struggle to adapt to the environment that prevails.
This new CIO 100 is intended as a benchmark for all CIOs. The top 20 are what I and the CIO panel of experts believe to be the foremost transformative CIOs in the British economy over the last 12 months. In previous eras CIOs have been judged by the size of their estate, the budget available to them or the size of the organisation they provide technology to. In 2012 CIO UK believes this to be a completely unsatisfactory judgement on the benefits technology and CIOs can offer organisations.
As Editor in Chief of CIO UK I hope the CIO community will embrace this benchmark to see how the leaders not only transform their organisations but how they communicate transformation and operate or influence at board level.
The CIO 100 is completely subjective and at CIO UK we welcome open discussion and look forward to debating its existing ranking and your thoughts for the next CIO 100. Personally I expect that from this transformation onward the ranking will change radically with each year as the economy changes and different sectors grow or react to the environment they operate in.
CIO online editor Mark Chillingworth
Keep your entry up to date and contact the editor: mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk.
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Easyjet
Easyjet and its CIO Trevor Didcock epitomise the real story of British business and the role of the CIO by demonstrating a creative zeal to reinvent a sector with technology at the heart of how the organisation does business.
Severn Trent Water
Myron Hrycyk joined utility company Severn Trent Water at probably one of its most decisive moments in the history of the Midlands based company. As a new board of directors took control of the then Birmingham based company following a series of regulatory fines Hrycyk stepped on to the board as CIO and set about leading a significant change management programme with Severn Trent Water.
Thomson Reuters
Jane Moran, global CIO for Thomson Reuters, led the integration of the Thomson Corporation and Reuters in 2008 following the Canadian Thomson acquisition of London based Reuters. Today the merged Thomson Reuters has 55,000 employees in 103 countries and provides news, financial, legal and scientific information to many major markets and companies.
Marks & Spencer Group
British retail has lost Woolworths, a once venerable name on the national high street, but although it has had difficult times, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is doing everything it can to ensure it does not suffer the same fate. As with all retailers, a dogged pursuit of multi-channel retailing and a strong supply chain are key to survival and success and taking responsibility for these is Darrell Stein. The CIO is on his second career stint at M&S.
COLT
Like many telecommunications providers Colt has had to modify its strategy to recover from the falling revenues that are generated by voice communications. Colt has become a major provider of technology services and using its Colt network and datacentres has become a leading private cloud computing provider.
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