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April 2008

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COVER STORY

Journey planner

Transport for London CIO Phil Pavitt on team effort and customer focus.

BUSINESS

Underwriting success

Being an effective CIO means focussing on business just as much as technology. Bruce Goodman, CIO for health insurance firm Humana, explains how he reaped financial results from IT by understanding the bottom line.

Regulation hotline

Rapid growth caused by mergers and acquisitions mean The Carphone Warehouse is leading the way in compliance and integration issues.

Handheld dilemma

The way organisations introduce new technologies is changing from an instinct-based approach to a choice based on business value, argues Nigel Hughes.

To the borders and beyond

Technology’s brief to help save the environment should not stop at the datacentre, says Gartner vice president of research Simon Mingay.

TECHOLOGY

At your service

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.

Wind of change

Graham Spittle of IBM is not only moving to the commercial side of the business after two decades making software, but also from the famed Hursley campus to London’s South Bank.

Combined strengths

The two biggest computer companies in the world – IBM and HP – are proving they can save on datacentre space and energy through the power of consolidation.

Poker face of software

Forrester Research vice president Andrew Bartels takes a gamble and predicts how enterprise software will look in 2017

LEADERSHIP

Chemical reaction

After having helped bring business discipline to IT and outsourcing at ICI, Richard Sykes sees cloud computing creating a ‘Service 2.0’ culture.

Pivotal position

Employees who take the initiative with new technology that aids creative working should be welcomed, as long as the boundaries are clear.

Congress consultation

Cloud based services are too difficult to measure and justify to be deployed by enterprises today.

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