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27/06/2008

Sustainability is not an add-on or a departmental issue

Like security and compliance, sustainability is pervasive, creeping into every corner of the organisation, the CIO, will be right at the heart of its planning and implementation.

14/05/2008

CIOs must learn to think like a customer in order to shape value proposition

Robert Willett, CIO of electronics retailer Best Buy and CEO of Best Buy International on joined up thinking

29/06/2007

Using your intelligence

Absa is South Africa’s largest retail bank and also the republic’s biggest online banker. Barclays acquired 54 per cent of the organisation in 2005 in a £2.6 billion swoop. The company, which has 53,000 staff and 7.5 million customers, has been investing heavily in a business intelligence (BI) approach, says Cornie Victor, general manager, information management.

15/01/2007

Retail veteran

Jon Higgins, CTO at Tesco.com, has driven the company’s dominance of the online grocery shopping sector

12/12/2006

Taking the hire ground

John Bottoms, CIO, Speedy Hire talks about the challenges of creating a cohesive IT operation and reporting to the board

11/12/2006

Order from chaos

Philip Raddon, IT director, Kingston Communications, talks about putting his IT house in order and building credibility

24/11/2006

Making headlines

Ian Cohen, CIO of Associated Newspapers, talks about online challenges, capturing readers and falling into IT.

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