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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.
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 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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
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