The CIO 100 is compiled each year to reveal the 100 most transformative CIOs in the UK business economy. CIOs that are driving business change, process improvement, enabling greater collaboration and innovating in new market opportunities join this exclusive group each year. The technology strategies of the CIOs and their achievements and ambitions towards transformation are judged in comparison to their IT sourcing strategies, vendor influence. The CIOs with the most transformative vision are also judged on their place within the business, have they put technology into the board level position and discussion.
The MoD has fallen foul of the openness of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter a Freedom of Information (FoI) request discovered early in 2010. Military personnel leaked secret information 16 times in an 18 month period the FoI request revealed. This follows a recent hisroy of MOD data loss relating to details of forces members and potential recruits.
With reports suggesting that budgets may be cut by up to £5bn, the Ministry of Defence will have some challenging times ahead but it remains a huge IT spender.
In recent times, the MoD has faced incidents including data loss relating to details of forces members and potential recruits and the overrunning Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) project. DII is a project led by the Atlas consortium with EDS (now HP) as the lead and Microsoft providing a hefty technology component. It will mean that critical data can be accessed over a secure web link rather than sitting on the local drives of client devices. There was also heavy fire aimed at the MoD over a malfunctioning payroll system when a parliamentary committee said it and EDS had made "truly reprehensible" mistakes. And there was more trouble in store when a review said almost three in four systems failed security tests.
In 2009 the MoD signed a deal with Rackspace that will see the company provide a managed service for web-based recruitment. Earlier in the year it had to combat a virus that spread quickly through the forces. It also made news when it emerged that a document proposed the use of social media site to promote the forces.
The Ministry also rolled out an HR system with the aid of Capgemini and Microsoft. Called the Internet Access To Shared Services Portal, the site is intended to save £1m over 10 years.
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The government’s ambitious attempt to upgrade the UK’s cyber security capabilities will struggle as long as the country fails to turn out enough graduates with the right skills, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has hinted.
A strategic plan comes after the NAO heavily criticised progress so far
The Cabinet Office has laid out plans for how it intends to deliver savings of up to £600 million a year across government through shared corporate services – providing departments reach high performance levels.
Defence Infrastructure Organisation expects to reduce building operating costs and find ways to better use its existing real estate
The MoD's Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has awarded IBM a contract to help make the running of its £24 billion property portfolio more energy and operationally efficient.
Dr Cliff Evans will be responsible identifying opportunities in online, social and mobile
Capgemini UK has appointed Dr Cliff Evans as its first ever Chief Digital Officer, in a bid to increase benefits from new opportunities arising from digital, online, social media and mobile technologies.
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