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TECHNOLOGY > Internet/eCommerce > FEATURES
21/07/2008
How to embrace millennial’ workers
Is it possible for established CIOs to embrace the new tech-savvy ‘millennial’ workers and bring the workplace up-to-date using the latest consumer IT trends?
26/06/2008
Five must have CIO tools for Firefox 3
Firefox 3 comes loaded with tools for CIOs to play with, which allow new ways to communicate and do business.
30/05/2008
Ian Cohen: Setting the multi-channel growth Standard
Pride in service delivery and business acumen means Ian Cohen has been central to the continued strength of newspapers such as the Daily Mail at Associated Newspapers
02/05/2008
Can the new Google CIO fill Douglas Merrill's shoes?
Executive recruiters and Wall Street analysts think Ben Fried is indeed a good choice.
16/04/2008
Interview: Douglas Merrill, former Google CIO
Douglas Merrill, formerly the CIO of Google and now president of the EMI digital business division talks about how the internet search pioneer Google has configured (not structured) its IT organisation, how CIOs need to evolve, and the most exasperating question that people ask him at cocktail parties.
20/11/2007
Heated exchanges
Experts agree that climate change must be dealt with fast, but how far should CIOs go when the vote is still out on how technology can tackle it?
16/11/2007
How to create a successful business widget
As businesses with eyes on Facebook, MySpace and the like look to take advantage of the social networking economy, they should be sure to heed the advice of widget makers who have already succeeded.
06/11/2007
Generation Y: Love them or lose them
They're your high-maintenance, entitled, technologically sophisticated and fickle new talent pool. Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, is also potentially the most high-performing generation in decades. Here's the lowdown on what makes them tick and how to work most effectively with them.
02/11/2007
How Wal-Mart lost its Technology edge
Two decades ago, the world's number-one retailer used IT to reinvent global supply chains. The world caught up and now Web 2.0 technologies are forcing retailers to pay more attention to customers. No longer a leader, Wal-Mart's IT is at a crossroads.
21/10/2007
Academic analysis
High-performance computers are changing the face of cutting-edge research at many of the country’s top universities and higher education institutes. Gary Flood looks at the systems aiding the science.
13/08/2007
Taunting the CIO
The Wall Street Journal ran a special section on Monday with the headline "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You".
12/07/2007
WEB 2.0
If in some strange parallel universe, Shakespeare was born an IT director, he would have good cause in musing, “to web 2.0 or not to web 2.0: that is the question”. But literary puns aside, while the latest internet technology trend may not be quite up to Hamlet’s dilemma, it certainly isn’t making life easy for CIOs.
06/07/2007
Granger: The final word
“Stuff goes wrong all the time. You know, computers do fail. But what we’re seeing is a sort of hysterical coverage. What I should be judged on is whether we’re fixing it quickly and ensuring it’s as good as anything else anywhere on the planet. Measure me on those things and I know we will not be found lacking.”
20/06/2007
Children of the revolution
There is a revolution under way – and if you’re a CIO, it’s coming in your direction. It’s called Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It owes its roots to the (failed) application service provider movement (ASP) of the 1990s. It’s coming from a foundation of start-up vendors targeting the small and medium enterprise market but all of the leading applications vendors are making SaaS noises to a greater or lesser degree and the number of enterprise level deployments is increasing. SaaS is an inevitable item on the corporate IT agenda. From the point of view of CIOs within organisations that means that if you haven’t already been asked by the CEO or FD about SaaS and its relevance to your company, then you will be soon. So what is it? Why does it matter? And is it right for you and your organisation?
20/06/2007
SaaS: up and running
ITN Source is one of the most recent manifestations of one of the most recognisable brands in the UK. ITN has been providing news bulletins for the ITV network and Channel 4 for decades.
20/06/2007
The agnostics
While most of the opposition to the SaaS model has come from traditional on-premises vendors, it is also true that there remains a healthy degree of scepticism among the end users.
13/05/2007
Don’t be frightened of your shadow
Last month we examined the rise of the shadow IT department, users in your company who have embraced consumer technology and are using applications and devices not provided, or necessarily approved of, by the CIO to do their work. The natural reaction of the IT department may be to clamp down and try to destroy it but the likelihood is this will prove futile and may even be counterproductive.
07/05/2007
It’s been an education
One of the biggest education infrastructure projects happening at the moment in the UK is the £90 million creation of a new ‘shopping mall’ style campus in Doncaster in South Yorkshire. CIO UK took a quick look at this investment and how IT underpins the infrastructure back in October; now the college has had its doors open for a term it seemed a good time to see how things are faring.
03/04/2007
Technology futures
Technology alchemists have been promising to turn base data into golden nuggets of information for the last 20 years. Granted they have had their successes but the path is littered with fool’s gold, alongside genuine gems of information that although beautifully formed, arrived too late and at too great a cost to be of much use.
30/03/2007
