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The brand conversation: what's a CIO's role?

Operating across the business, the CIO can be an enabler for the collaborations that are critical to brand building

5 innovation killers and how to avoid them

Driving innovation does not only demand great business ideas, it also requires an organisation that encourages rather than inhibits innovation. Which of these 'innovation killers' are alive and well in your business?

If tech firms were Formula One teams

Where on the grid are your vendors?

The secrets of effective disaster recovery

Martha Bennett asks, what can companies do to ensure that they’re adequately prepared for when disaster strikes?

12 essential habits of new IT hires

Some tips on what to look for when filling your next vacancy

UC - FMC usurper or saviour?

Josie Sephton of Freeform Dynamics discusses the pros and cons of Fixed Mobile Convergence

Public cloud set to be a private golf club business model

IT entrepreneur sees the public cloud unseating the private cloud model by being more private

Bigger, broader deals likely to follow Orange and T-Mobile

Media, content and other giants likely to enter mobile telco space

September: back to school and back in action

There's more on CIO UK ever and even more coming

Talk to the tablet

UC loves the touch screen

The modern brand experience and the CIO's role in maintaining it

By having a responsibility for the channels, CIOs must collaborate in their organisation's brand identity

Don't miss the train

To ignore shortfalls in your team's skills would be to court disaster

Outsourcing a key part of transformation for CIOs

Don’t just think about cost control

Premier League sponsors in 2010/11 dominated by money, tech and gambling sectors

Your guide to the Premier League's shirt sponsors and their relection on the UK economy

Major BP outsourcing deal demonstrates new CIO role

Technology knowledge is eclipsed by ability to cut a deal

Is Quality Dead?

Quality is it dead or is it just changing

Oracle fleshes out its 'big data' portfolio

Dale Vile of Freeform Dynamics on how the whole big data movement is introducing net new capability to the business mainstream.

Life recorders could be next Twitter, Google and hula hoop combined

Gadgets could have some serious and not-so-serious applications

Website takes aim at information risk

Portal to act as hub for risks related to data compromises

In 2012 the device is no longer the crucial discussion for CIOs

Information value offers CIO a powerful future





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