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The Economic Downturn and IT Service Delivery

The economic outlook for many organisations has taken a decidedly frosty turn, as the figure below confirms. So the immediate debate now becomes just how severe and enduring the economic squeeze will be.
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Mike Altendorf: Heads in the clouds

Heads in the clouds
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Q&A with Anthony Miller of TechMarketView

A view from the service sector
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The importance of enterprise architecture

Architects of the new enterprise
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CIO's role in delivering green buildings

Building a green environment
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Does Agile development have a place in your organisation?

Structured, but not in that way
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CIO Debate: The economic downturn will affect IT sourcing choices

Research carried out by Macehiter Ward-Dutton in association with CIO.co.uk reveals changing attitudes to sourcing and SaaS
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Making the economics of storage easier for non-IT executives to understand

What’s in store after the flood?
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Richard Sykes on the lessons of Moore’s Law

Gordon Moore’s dictum on unrelenting technological progress causes Richard Sykes to recall leadership styles in his ICI days
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Andy Hayler: Bigger is not always better

The basics of software development best practice are being lost because we over-value youth and energy
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Latest Concern Articles

People Leadership > MDS CIO Tom Gernon looks for employees seeking relationships with customers

Perfect chemistry for success

Managing Budgets > Paul Martin, global CIO of Rexam discusses packing it up

Packing it up

Resource Management > Translation software aid CIOs with global ambitions

Found in Translation

Infrastructure Refresh > US CIOs explain the benefits of early adoption

First out of the blocks

Business Alignment > Netbooks set to challenge laptops

Small wonders

Security > Microsoft's CIO on innovation, freedom and open source

How Microsoft keeps a balance between innovation and business driven priorities.

Managing Change > Time to reappraise speech recognition systems?

Speak and spell

Compliance > Avoiding the tender traps

With many IT outsourcing contracts up for re-tender, it pays to look back for lessons and begin the process as early as possible

Managing Customers > Universal Orlando Resort CIO on understands the Universal customer

The Universal customer

Board Politics > Citrix plans next revolution

After reinventing Windows computing, the software pioneer wants to make a splash in virtualising desktops and servers, says CEO Mark Templeton

Latest News

Royal Mail to deliver SAP human resources platform

Royal Mail is looking for a services contractor to deliver a human resources IT platform based on SAP enterprise resource planning.

McDonald’s reports November sales increase

Sales up in burger chain that offers free Wi-Fi and develops its own Epos systems

SAP user group ousts CEO

The Americas SAP User Group is looking for new leadership after removing its CEO, members demand a similar line on SAP support as European groups.

Lloyd's syndicate Spectrum virtualises applications

Lloyd’s insurance market syndicate Spectrum has implemented Citrix XenApp to improve its application delivery and cut costs.

Microsoft will not buy Yahoo insists Ballmer

Microsoft will not revive its Yahoo takeover offer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during the company's annual shareholders meeting yesterday (19 November), despite a change of CEO at the online company.

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Articles In Other Technology Areas

Business Applications > Pay is only one factor for IT staff

Pay for IT staff is important, but even in the current economic climate, it is only one factor in job satisfaction

Internet/eCommerce > Business Analysis: Where have all the women gone?

CIOs who ignore the diversity challenge are burying their heads in the sand, says Liz Benison of Capgemini UK

Outsourcing > Book review: Peddling Gartner’s cycle of hype

The famed analyst delves deep into one of its biggest and cleverest concepts

Communications > How a CIO should deal with the aftermath of a data breach

When it comes to data breaches, experts agree that prevention is the best cure but what steps should CIOs take if the unthinkable happens?

Databases > On-demand services are delivering a new kind of software

Enterprise application specialists are being hurt by the new wave of generalised on-demand service providers

SOA > Andy Hayler: A bit of discipline required

Andy Hayler is puzzled by the lack of rigour in applying metrics to the value of projects, and offers a simple guide to basic cost justification

Security > Richard Sykes: Troubleshooter recalled

Sir John Harvey-Jones became an iconic leader during his reign at ICI but he also missed opportunities, says ex-colleague Richard Sykes

Mobile IT > Orange Business Services’s CIO Vincent Kelly says the future’s Orange

Orange Business Services’s CIO Vincent Kelly runs a huge IT shop for an enormous network but says people management is more important than bits and bytes

Storage > British Library's Richard Boulderstone sets out digital agenda for national libraries

The British Library’s director of e-strategy Richard Boulderstone is at the heart of a huge digitisation project that will make the organisation’s 150 million-document archive more accessible now and in the future