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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.

Change management

Latest Change management news

HMRC forced to manually process 35 million tax cases due to IT delays

HM Revenue & Customs has queued 35 million tax cases for manual processing, directly as a result of severe delays to a new IT system rollout.

Doctors demand halt to NHS electronic records

The British Medical Association has called for an immediate halt to the multibillion pound rollout of electronic records for NHS patients.

T-Mobile and Orange gets the all clear

The European Commission has given a conditional go-ahead for the merger of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK, owned by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom respectively.

Anglo American supply chain and shared services cut £1.5bn from costs

Anglo American has removed $2.3 billion (£1.5 billion) worth of costs, aided substantially by an overhaul of its supply chain, asset management and knowledge management, and the introduction of shared services.

Kraft will cut £430m from costs with Cadbury integration

Kraft is targeting the removal of $675 million (£430 million) worth of costs annually, as it faces a mammoth SAP integration task following its £11.5 billion acquisition of Cadbury.

Fujitsu staff cancel 24 hour strike, but talks continue

Unite union members at Fujitsu have called off a strike due on Friday as talks take place to solve the UK’s first ever national IT workers’ strike.

Microsoft beats its June redundancy target

Microsoft has beaten its target of cutting 5,000 jobs by the middle of June 2010, the company reported as part of its quarterly 10Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Germany drops patient record scheme as UK marches forward

A multibillion pound German scheme to create smartcards of digital patient records, has been abandoned in the face of concerns over delays, rising costs and data security.

Severn Trent turns on phase 1 of SAP implementation

Severn Trent has completed the first phase of a major technology efficiency overhaul, switching on a central module of its new SAP enterprise resource planning system.

HP staff to strike tomorrow

More than 1,000 HP staff in the Public and Commercial Services Union are set to strike tomorrow after talks to resolve a dispute over pay and job cuts broke down.

Change management in depth

Warburtons mixed ERP improvements into its expansion plans

Grist to the mill

Warburtons mixed ERP improvements into its expansion plans under the careful eye of IT director Damien Ghee more...

Warburtons mixed ERP improvements into its expansion plans

Back to basics: Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) - Past, Present, Future and successful implementation

ERP in simple language, a cut out and keep guide to get your CEO and CFO up to speed on what these technologies do for your organisation more...

Back to basics: Enterprise Resource Planning

Book review: The Change Equation

Making sense of the global economy

Books that aim to crack the codes of finance and shatter the glass ceiling. more...

Book review: The Change Equation

The CIO Questionnaire: Al-Noor Ramji, BT Group CIO

BT Group CIO Al-Noor Ramji is helping the telco bounce back

Going back to the source, BT Group CIO calls in his motivations more...

The CIO Questionnaire: Al-Noor Ramji, BT Group CIO

BT Group CIO Al-Noor Ramji is helping the telco bounce back

Going back to the source

Al-Noor Ramji is helping the telco bounce back with a re-evaluation of outsourcing part of the agenda more...

BT Group CIO Al-Noor Ramji is helping the telco bounce back

Government IT: why getting it right matters

Policy could kill IT innovation

The government must stop making excuses and get to grips with the way it runs IT before innovation dries up in Britain, argues the CEO of software company Erudine more...

Government IT: why getting it right matters

What next for best practice?

From next to now practice

Consulting models must meet the spirit of participation in society and technology, say Atos Consulting experts Carl Bate and Rob Price more...

What next for best practice?

Arts Council CIO Owen Powell manages a change in scene and service

A change of art

Arts Council IT director Owen Powell paints a picture of occupational psychology and IT as the canvas for transformation more...

Arts Council CIO Owen Powell manages a change in scene and service

Why the UK’s Victorian canals rely on IT

Liquid assets

British Waterways has helped change the face of the nation’s canal network. Head of ICT Richard Walsh explains the role of technology in the operation of today’s waterways more...

Why the UK’s Victorian canals rely on IT

Government cloud computing must have a proper business case

Helping G-Cloud hit the spot

Cloud computing could enable an improved approach to public-sector IT, as long as the business case for its adoption is properly established more...

Government cloud computing must have a proper business case

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Analysis

Dedication to regulation

Regulation is a fact of life and business. The signs are that its impact will be felt more strongly and constantly than ever as time wears on. more...

Dedication to regulation

Opinion

Ensure a smooth transition to centralised IT delivery

It may be counter-intuitive, but done right, IT centralisation can save money and increase agility. more...

Ensure a smooth transition to centralised IT delivery

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