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25/01/2008

Becoming the person you want to be

Brinley Platts reveals the route to becoming more effective in your career and personal life – as well as the winner of last month’s festive sports quiz

25/09/2007

Why CIOs need to have a mobility strategy

Mobility will be a critical business enabler in the future, and if you don’t have a mobile strategy then you need to start thinking, says Johna Till Johnson, President, Nemertes Research

12/05/2007

Out of office reply

Time management used to be so straightforward – do the things that are important first, before they become urgent and that was about it. Some people – usually swots who had their homework done early – were very good at it, with ruthlessly managed ‘in’, ‘out’ and ‘action’ boxes. A few were diabolical at it, forever pulling ‘all nighters’ to try to catch up and the vast majority were basically okay and muddled through – unless there was a crisis that couldn’t be solved in the pub.

28/03/2007

Happy talking

There are three main causes of workplace unhappiness. The trick is not to ignore them

11/12/2006

Relinquishing power

Mobile phones have overtaken cars as the most tedious TV ads.

08/12/2006

Tightrope walking

IT managers agonise about how to erect ever stronger barriers to their company’s information resources.

16/11/2006

Zune under fire

With the imminent arrival of the Zune, the so-called iPod killer from Microsoft, there’s much talk among the consumer market geeks about which will device win out.

12/09/2006

The building of a brighter future

ENGLISH HERITAGE is a non-departmental government body which acts as the main guardian of the UK’s historic environment, protecting some 400,000 historic monuments such as Stonehenge and 300 listed buildings.

11/09/2006

Food with a lot of thought

Gerhard Eygelaar, director of IT for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) of food services company Compass Group sees his role as bringing IT governance to the heart of the organisation.

11/09/2006

Service has been assumed

A recent newspaper column bemoaned the loss of the American service culture.

Champion of personal services

In this month’s On The Record, Ian Carter head of IT at sports and fashion management agency IMG runs us through the changing face of his business

11/09/2006

Frontline trolleyology

It started as an idea to explore trolleyology. No, not the US version which judges people from their shopping and is used as a means of matching and dating. Would you go out with someone who only bought ‘value’ products?

11/09/2006

Just enough for the City

Sometimes it seems the financial services industry operates on a completely different plane to everything else – expanding IT while elsewhere it’s contracting, paying bonuses when staff numbers are being slashed everywhere else and navel gazing when the real world is out chasing customers.

The man behind the man

The brouhaha of last November’s strategy call to move to transformational government based on integrated ICT, clouded the fact that much of government technology leaves something to be desired.

11/09/2006

New year, same old same old

If you have ever had that feeling of déjà vu do not be alarmed, Stuart Lauchlan predicts 12 months of Groundhog days

The danger within

Security is always a good thing but there can be no protection from simple error and stainless steel rats, writes Gary Flood

10/09/2006

Accentuate the postive

Gartner advocates CIOs moving beyond cost lock-downs. Gary Flood wonders if it is time to stop being so negative

09/09/2006

A concerned citizen

June saw the third annual European Gartner Midsize Enterprise conference, an event targeted specifically at midsize enterprise CIOs

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