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Mark Chillingworth

Mark became the News Editor of a consumer magazine initially before joining Sky TV as an online editor, which led to a stint producing television items. He then traveled for two years, before returning to be News Editor of publishing industry title Information World Review which he went on to edit before joining CIO in January 2008. As Editor of the online CIO title he is responsible for all online content and developments.

Mark Chillingworth

May 27, 2010

Cloud developers at BizSpark demonstrate the new and old of Microsoft

New era of technology still has a need for Microsoft

This week's BizSpark event by Microsoft at its Paris Headquarters demonstrated that there is something new, and something old about the dominant...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

May 18, 2010

Cloud computing is all the rage according to surveys, but not so in the real world of the CIO

Our survey says

Survey after survey indicates that cloud computing is the big thing on every CIOs minds. Clouds are of course at present one of the main topics of...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

May 13, 2010

IT leaders discuss the Harvey Nash CIO Survey, 2010

Who said what at the launch of influential study

Below is a basic transcript of what some senior IT leaders said at the launch of the Harvey Nash CIO Survey of 2010. The influential study, now in...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

May 11, 2010

Savour this moment in history

CIOs know all about change and fear of change, like our nation, they navigate it and communicate it to ensure success

The last five days have been addictive to those of us in the news business. A hung parliament has not been witnessed in the UK since the 1970s....

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

May 06, 2010

A hung or balanced parliament would have to collaborate - like business does

We in business can collaborate, so why can’t MPs? A hung parliament would benefit Britain

There's been a lot of fear spread that a balanced/hung parliament will wreck Britain. Today, as the nation goes to the polls, I can't help but...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth

May 05, 2010

Salesman - death of a good company

Poor quality sales people are destroying industries when CIOs want advice and partnership

Today's news of US refuse collection company Waste Management receiving a "one-time cash payment" from enterprise resource planning software...

Posted by: Mark Chillingworth


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