CIO UK Blogs: Entries for June 2010
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Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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June 30, 2010
Six Characteristics Of Highly Successful CIOs
What, apart from the bleeding obvious, makes IT leaders tick?
The Times' excellent business writer Sathnam Sanghera had a fine piece published last week suggesting the real qualities needed to be a CEO*....
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 29, 2010
Fabio Capello: saying 'sorry' might have been a start
A full and frank apology could have been the platform for the Euros
With his inept attempt to swerve the blame and direct it to a Uruguayan referee, Fabio Capello might well have made his farewell speech from the...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 23, 2010
Chunk up government IT to save spend
G-Cloud likely to get a nudge as axe falls on state IT
As I've noted in this space before, I'm a sceptic when it comes to economics, a form of betting with way too many variables to justify having a...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 21, 2010
Apple iPad success shows PC firms need to pursue Stella Artois tack
Dell and other PC makers must build a better mousetrap
Apple's success since the Second Coming of Saint Steve has effectively rewritten much of what we thought we knew about the computer industry. Back...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 18, 2010
The PC can boom again thanks to the freebie era
The age of the giveaway computer can take PCs on to the next billion units very quickly
A new Forrester Research report on the future of the PC suggests tablet devices will in five years represent almost a quarter of all sales. Maybe,...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 14, 2010
ITV's missing World Cup goal is a reminder that outsourcing doesn't make problems go away
Steven Gerrard's goal was missed in live action by ITV HD and shows that an outsourced problem remains a problem
Not to get too Michael Barrymore about this but executives, like kids, say the funniest things, one of which is that ancient smug...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 10, 2010
After Philip Clarke at Tesco, is the fabled 'CIO to CEO' switch about to become reality?
A number of changes mean that CIOs could become candidates for top jobs
A couple of you have written to suggest that my recent blog about Philip Clarke's appointment as Tesco CEO was unnecessarily downbeat, a cynical...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 08, 2010
Tesco CEO choice may be template for CIOs
New hope for ITers
The news that Philip Clarke is to replace Sir Terry Leahy is wonderful news at the very least for event marketers who have tried to sell seats at...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 07, 2010
Will iPad plus video equal failing networks?
The iPad generation of tablet devices is perfect for video but will ask tough questions of cellular networks
The arrival of the iPad prompts a question that has been asked many times before but deserves serious attention: will our networks be swamped by...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 04, 2010
Royal Mail: The IT supplier model is broken; we need cloud computing for pay-as-you-go
Royal Mail chief technology architect Stuart Curley says cloud can help business align IT costs
It's interesting the way memes develop in the media. I'm not sure when I started to write regularly about something called "cloud computing" and...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 03, 2010
But how much does it cost? Pricing remains a dark art in IT
Government plan to expose IT spending is the latest attempt to make prices transparent
One of the tricky things when writing about the IT industry should be, in theory, one of the simplest. At any press conference for a product...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
June 01, 2010
Are the 'Lucky 7' state CIOs earning more than the PM overpaid?
Government CIO pay may not be as over-the-top as some suggest
My rightly esteemed fellow-employee Anh Nguyen has written an interesting news story on Computerworld today, highlighting the point that seven...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
About the author
Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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