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13/06/2008

If we entering a recession, it’s as well to be ready

Preparing for a fight

06/06/2008

Lancashire ICT leaders measure up against outsourcing

Measure by measure, in-house can be more effective

22/04/2008

Software as a service (SaaS) is now on the menu of large companies

Having been the order of the day in small- and medium-sized businesses, software as a service (SaaS) is now on the menu of large companies

27/03/2008

Corporate IT Forum chairman Ian Campbell plots a new course

The Corporate IT Forum is independent, practical and influential. Much like it’s chairman, Ian Campbell, who tells Sarah Aryanpur how he is plotting its course

12/11/2007

Network of opportunity

CIO Andrew Watson may have fallen into IT but his engineering background – and experience in non-standard roles – has put the British Transport Police’s platforms on the straight and narrow.

05/11/2007

The rupee's rise, the dollar's demise and you

The U.S. dollar has depreciated more in the last year against the Indian rupee than it has in more than a decade. That's bad news for Indian IT services providers and their customers. Here's what to look out for and how to manage the offshore outsourcing currency risk.

01/11/2007

Correlating IT spend with business value

CIOs are always faced with pressure to justify their IT expenditures. CIO, in the first of a three-part feature, explores how new research can help correlate IT spend with business value

21/10/2007

Frontier man

Joe Harley, CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The department is vast, the job is high profile and it demands long days spent in discussions with ministers, permanent secretaries and suppliers.

14/09/2007

Gordon Lovell-Read's CIO Lessons

When Lovell-Read joined Siemens in 2002, there was no CIO in place. For any CIO in a new job it is important to get a handle on the role as soon as possible. These are your priorities for the first few months.

10/09/2007

Taking on the board

Gordon Lovell-Read has been gun slinging at Siemens for six years. Ambrose McNevin finds he is still shooting from the hip.

06/07/2007

Granger: The final word

“Stuff goes wrong all the time. You know, computers do fail. But what we’re seeing is a sort of hysterical coverage. What I should be judged on is whether we’re fixing it quickly and ensuring it’s as good as anything else anywhere on the planet. Measure me on those things and I know we will not be found lacking.”

20/06/2007

Children of the revolution

There is a revolution under way – and if you’re a CIO, it’s coming in your direction. It’s called Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It owes its roots to the (failed) application service provider movement (ASP) of the 1990s. It’s coming from a foundation of start-up vendors targeting the small and medium enterprise market but all of the leading applications vendors are making SaaS noises to a greater or lesser degree and the number of enterprise level deployments is increasing. SaaS is an inevitable item on the corporate IT agenda. From the point of view of CIOs within organisations that means that if you haven’t already been asked by the CEO or FD about SaaS and its relevance to your company, then you will be soon. So what is it? Why does it matter? And is it right for you and your organisation?

02/05/2007

Outsourcing trailblazer

Sir Brian Pitman knows about success – and failure. Having first joined Lloyds Bank in 1952, he went on to become one of the City’s most celebrated bankers whose advice and leadership led to such plaudits from his peers as being named Financial World European Banking CEO of the year in 1993 and KPMG Business Leader of the Year in 1998.

03/04/2007

Technology futures

Technology alchemists have been promising to turn base data into golden nuggets of information for the last 20 years. Granted they have had their successes but the path is littered with fool’s gold, alongside genuine gems of information that although beautifully formed, arrived too late and at too great a cost to be of much use.

23/03/2007

A rational man

Though newspaper publishers may have sleepless nights worrying about the long term impact of the internet on their business model, there is no doubt it is still a hugely profitable business for the bigger players.

20/03/2007

Power play

Energy efficiency is not merely a green issue or something for your PR department. It is a business problem that is rapidly approaching crisis point

19/03/2007

Strictly business

A business intelligence project should not be a technology initiative. As Janine Milne discovers, it is all about business

13/03/2007

An equitable position

Equity Insurance Group’s financial reporting system was in complete disarray. CIO UK discovers how it escaped the chaos of spreadsheets

15/01/2007

Taking the easyJet option

Andy Caddy, IT services director of low cost airline easyJet, explains why the decision to outsource its mission critical website was the obvious choice

15/01/2007

Only a third of NHS budget goes on service improvements

NHS budget eaten up by staff wages and rising drug costs

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