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Change management

The effective management of organisational change is a measure of CIO success. CIOs are increasingly in the driving seat of changes in process and culture at organisations and management boards, CEOs and chairman now look towards the CIO to be an agent of change within the organisation. Change management requires not only a vision for improving process or culture within an organisation, but also key skills in communications, negotiations and even marketing.

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Latest Change management news

SAP acquires Datango software to increase training

SAP has acquired software from Datango that will allow it to add multilingual online help and training materials to enterprise software applications.

RBS investment bank wind down will see IT team axed

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is set to make 3,500 job cuts to its investment bank, in which advanced IT plays an integral part to operations, leaving technology staff fearing the worst.

JP Morgan IT integration failure results in £1.4m fine for auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been fined £1.4 million by regulators, after it signed off accounts containing serious rule-breaking client money practices at JP Morgan Chase – the result of a major IT switchover that failed to keep pace with changed business processes.

Coventry tech centre to set up R&D virtual reality suite

The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) based in Ansty Park near Coventry is tendering for an “immersive, virtual reality suite”, to help save on the cost of research and development.

LA police drops plans to move to Google Apps

After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements.

Bank ringfencing will create long-term IT jobs boom

The Chancellor's acceptance yesterday of the Vickers Report, which recommended banks separate their retail and investment units in the interests of stability, will require billions of pounds of IT and operational investment from banks.

Employee-owned devices surging for US companies

Employees and not the companies are bearing the costs

JP Morgan IT project voted most cutting edge

JP Morgan has won an award for an IT deployment that enabled its supercomputer to run risk analyses in near real-time

Stock exchange IT chiefs: innovation only exists with driven CEOs

The heads of technology at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) and NASDAQ OMX have said that financial businesses will only drive successful innovation if they have powerful, decisive CEOs.

IBM launches enterprise social collaboration apps for tablets

Responding to increased use of tablets within workplaces, IBM is set to release several mobile applications designed to let employees use IBM enterprise social collaboration software with iPads and other mobile devices.

Change management in depth

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on the future of the CIO

It's about business prowess, not technical expertise, which comes as a given

For one of Procter & Gamble's IT heads, if the CIO isn't on the board, they cannot continue to stay relevant more...

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on the future of the CIO

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on supplier management and mergers

Global integration projects require epic scale supplier relationships

Dave Ubachs deals with the world's biggest suppliers on a global scale. For many, he is their number one customer. more...

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on supplier management and mergers

CIO Profile: Tony Pusey of Trinity Mirror on the switch from paper to pixels

For the newspaper business, it's a case of embrace tech or die

Few industries have been altered by technology quite as much as publishing, and media-savvy CIOs are leading the reinvention more...

CIO Profile: Tony Pusey of Trinity Mirror on the switch from paper to pixels

CIOs need to put an end to Bring Your Own Collaboration

The fine line between freeing up file-sharing tools and a free-for-all has to be drawn

The Megaupload investigation illustrates how prevalent unmonitored file-sharing is within the corporate environment, exposing businesses to illegal activity within their own walls more...

CIOs need to put an end to Bring Your Own Collaboration

The Great Debates at Davos: Jump-starting confidence in the economy

The hot topic this year is how BRICs economies can help the rest of the world

BG Srinivas, European head at Infosys has sent in a report on his first day at this year's Davos Summit. Attendees are abuzz with chatter over the global economy. more...

The Great Debates at Davos: Jump-starting confidence in the economy

Digital defaulters put focus over process

Reforming process for process’s sake will only delay the public sector’s move to digital services

Reforming process for process’s sake will only delay the public sector’s move to digital services more...

Digital defaulters put focus over process

SOPA withdrawal - what it means for CIOs

CIO analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act debacle in the USA

SOPA has now been withdrawn by Republican Senators in response to the tardy White House feedback.. But irritation in the non-US world remains. more...

SOPA withdrawal - what it means for CIOs

The benefits and pitfalls of working with Super-users

Business analysis can get caught up in an enthusiastic minority's view of what tech is required

Determining the IT requirements of the business can be helped by super-users, says Mark Settle, but beware that you aren't getting a wide enough perspective more...

The benefits and pitfalls of working with Super-users

CIO Profile: Thomson Reuters' Jane Moran on CEO Tom Glocer's legacy

Although the leader is about to depart the company's IT boss says the internal corporate structure is still sound

Thomson Reuters IT leader gives her support for the corporate structure the outgoing CEO created more...

CIO Profile: Thomson Reuters' Jane Moran on CEO Tom Glocer's legacy

CIO Profile: Jane Moran of Thomson Reuters on creating a merger culture

Merging markets

As Global CIO of acquisitive information company Thomson Reuters – itself the product of a 2008 integration – Jane Moran knows when a merger is a success more...

CIO Profile: Jane Moran of Thomson Reuters on creating a merger culture

Related Change management articles

Analysis

When business data goes walkabout

It's vital that business information is kept together, in a business information system, says Colin Beveridge, Principal Analyst, Freeform Dynamics, not a privately-owned service that is unavailable to colleagues and stakeholders more...

When business data goes walkabout

Opinion

Four IT trends for 2012

The CIO of 2012 faces a quartet of challenging changes based about anticipating colleagues’ behavioural needs and providing fast, accurate business information more...

Four IT trends for 2012

Debate

Virtual CIO Summit

This year’s CIO Summit was the best yet and a series of leading UK based CIOs shared their experiences and thoughts with an audience exclusively made up of CIOs. Some have kindly agreed to share their presentations with you here. more...

Virtual CIO Summit

CIO White Papers

The financial economics of cloud email

This white paper evaluates cloud computing as a flexible alternative to your current IT capability that delivers tangible benefits including: projects delivered earlier, faster adoption to change, lower risk, reduced costs and easier to scale up or down services.

Beyond Dropbox: Requirements for Enterprise Secure File Sharing

This whitepaper explores the danger “Dropbox” type services pose for enterprises, and the security and compliance requirements for deploying enterprise-wide file sharing solutions.

Top 10 considerations for your IT operations management in the cloud

This paper explores ten questions every IT organization should answer to help determine their cloud based ITOM needs.

How to get your business ready for the 2012 Olympics

IT Manager: "I'm working on contingency plans to ensure that we can keep the business running whatever happens during the Olympics. Hopefully, it'll just be a case of letting people work from home but we need to be ready for anything".


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