Tech Toolkits
CIO UK Tech Tool Kits is a one stop shop for in depth articles on the technologies CIOs will need to be up to speed on. Articles are grouped by technology to give you an instant tool box of case studies where you can read about the experiences your peers in the UK CIO community have had with each technology. You will also find articles analysing the implications of new systems and formats written by industry leaders. Latest news on these technologies is also grouped within each tool kit.
"It's not about the technology but what the technology could do for the business. Ten years ago [IT leadership] was about getting your networks in place and very little about transforming the business."
Paul Martin, Global CIO, Rexam
"On average, home workers at BT are 20 per cent more productive and they save BT £6,000 a year each in office and other costs."
Al-Noor Ramji, CIO, BT Group
"There are some excellent solutions. There is not a single area not catered for but you pay a premium for the good solutions. What you don't get is one solution for everything you want to do. You are forced to go best of breed."
Tim Hyman, IT director, Taylor Wessing
"Servers are used at 20 per cent during working hours, and 70 per cent of the cost of managing them revolves around power and cooling. If you increase usage to 50 per cent, you make significant savings."
Sean Whetstone, head of IT services, Reed
"A lot can be achieved with desktop virtualisation in terms of configuration. There are benefits to holding data centrally, which is key to local government where you have social workers with laptops."
Richard Dawson, IT services manager, Bracknell Forest Borough Council
"Eighty to 85 per cent of our IT is outsourced. In reality, the CIO role is not diminished. Your job is to work out the best IT for your company."
Frank Modruson, CIO, Accenture
"The systems we have today take us forward for the next couple of years. What I'm putting in place are systems that will take us from three years onwards, and [eventually] to a £1bn turnover."
Gary Mudie, IT director, Asos.com
"Data drives what we do, always quantifying where that value is."
Gary Lensing, VP and CIO, Hess Corporation
"Unified comms is part and parcel of keeping information in a single place."
Graeme Low, head of IT Mills & Reeve
"SaaS will benefit CIOs as it goes on the expenses line, rather than the capital expenditure budget."
Mykolas Rambus, CIO, Forbes
"People expect simplicity, relevance and speed and you have to come up to their level of expectation if you are going to hold their attention."
Tim Robinson, director of strategic business development, RICS
"The key thing for us is to look at conversions, such as thanking people for using Gift Aid and then offering them more. CRM aims to keep this process moving."
Nick Napier, head of information and communications technology for ZSL
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