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CIO Magazine April 2008 talks to Phil Pavitt, CIO of Transport for London on how he aims to harness technology to serve Londoners, travellers and visitors to the Olympics in 2012. Outsourcing guru Dr Richard Sykes discusses the future of cloud computing and its ability to provide a service revolution, dubbed Service 2.0.
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Infrastructure Refresh > Graham Spittle, the IBM wind of change
IBM’s Graham Spittle is not only moving to the commercial side of the business after two decades making software, but also from the famed Hursley
Resource Management > Transport for London’s CIO Phil Pavitt makes travellers top priority
Ticket to ride
Managing Customers > How CIOs can enable power users
Employees who take the initiative with new technology that aids creative working should be welcomed, as long as the boundaries are clear, argues Tracey Caldwell
Business Alignment > Migration management and effective integration for EuroSox
Rapid growth caused by mergers and acquisitions means The Carphone Warehouse is leading the way in compliance and integration issues
Managing Change > Being an effective CIO means focusing on business just as much as technology
Bruce Goodman, CIO of health insurance firm Humana, explains how he reaped financial results from IT by understanding the bottom line
People Leadership > Interview: Douglas Merrill, former Google CIO
Searching for meaning among CIOs
Compliance > Will traditional IT organisations cease to exist by 2012?
Why the end could be nigh
Security > Corporate IT Forum chairman Ian Campbell plots a new course
Uncharted territory
Managing Budgets > Is outsourcing really outsourcing or distress sourcing?
In the rush to cut costs now many organisations are storing up problems for the future
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British Gas has served a writ on Accenture for £182 million, over a billing system which it said had “fundamental errors”.
Sky raises EDS legal costs to £21m
BSkyB has increased its budget for its lawsuit against EDS over a large CRM system implementation, as the parties argue in court over increasingly fine details of the case.
Virgin Trains rolls out £750k financial system
Virgin Trains is rolling out a £750,000 financial management system to automate and simplify accounting processes, and cut costs.
JP Morgan splashes £15m on Temenos platform
JP Morgan Chase will spend $30 million (£15.1 million) rolling out a centralised operating platform from banking specialist Temenos, to support its treasury management, liquidity services businesses and global expansion.
Businesses warned not to skip Vista
Companies should think twice about skipping Microsoft operating system Vista and should get started on updating their client desktops, according to a report issued by Forrester Research.
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Infrastructure > Five things Don Tapscott has learned about collaboration
Wikinomics author and consultant Don Tapscott believes that transparency is power and that the benefits of collaboration outweigh its drawbacks, Jarina D'Auria shares his learnings.
Communications > Is IT achieving green?
As more and more organisations assess their impact on the planet and opt to go ‘green’, concerns are being raised as to the actual progress being made, if at all? Elana Varon takes a closer look.
Internet/eCommerce > Can the new Google CIO fill Douglas Merrill's shoes?
Executive recruiters and Wall Street analysts think Ben Fried is indeed a good choice.
SOA > HP and IBM combine datacentre strengths
The two biggest computer companies in the world – IBM and HP – are proving they can save on datacentre space and energy through the power of consolidation
Outsourcing > Former ICI IT boss Richard Sykes sees cloud computing creating a ‘Services 2.0’ culture
After having helped bring business discipline to IT and outsourcing at ICI, Richard Sykes sees cloud computing creating a ‘Services 2.0’ culture
Security > Cloud-based services are too difficult to measure and justify enterprise deployment
Cloud-based services are too difficult to measure and justify to be deployed by enterprises today, says Janice McGinn
Databases > Software as a service (SaaS) is now on the menu of large companies
Having been the order of the day in small- and medium-sized businesses, software as a service (SaaS) is now on the menu of large companies
Mobile IT > BlackBerry is a handheld dilemma for CIOs
The way organisations introduce new technologies is changing from an instinct-based approach to a choice based on business value, argues Nigel Hughes
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