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BPM vs SOA
Blog So it may come as a surprise to some (not me, obviously - see previous blogs) to read Gartner's 2008 CIO Business and Technical Priority lists. In the battle of the TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms to you non-geeks), there seems to a sharp change in the...
[December 5, 2008, 8:28]
Tax office IT chief is in the money
News Lamey, previously a director at BOC and CIO at British Gas, took over the HMRC job from the Inland Revenue's previous IT director John Yard just after the department's £3bn IT Aspire outsourcing contract was switched from EDS to Capgemini, and...
[August 15, 2006, 16:35]
Disneyland brings in biometric ticketing
News It's always a business problem," he said, describing the approach to IT that his CIO adopts. It may have needed a dose of creativity to create the endless fairy tales and wondrous fantasies for kids and adults alike, but when it comes to the...
[November 27, 2006, 8:12]
iPod lights the way for IT
Leader At the BusinessWeek CIO discussion evening at London's RSA on Wednesday night (organised by the European Technology Forum, which is owned by ZDNet's parent company CNET Networks UK), complexity was singled out as the bête noir of every IT Director.
[May 19, 2005, 13:25]
Businesses see barriers to iPhone adoption
News However, when silicon.com asked a 12-strong CIO Jury IT director panel whether they have plans to make the iPhone available to staff in the range of corporate phones they offer, only one said that they would.
[September 25, 2007, 10:19]
UK government 'needs more CIOs'
News He described his position as "more analogous to that of a group CIO in a large conglomerate". Ian Watmore made his first public speech in the role at the Oracle Open World Conference on Monday. He said there is a need to get chief information...
[September 8, 2004, 11:30]
On challenging China with a tariff
News Perhaps surprisingly, his position echoes that of the AFL-CIO, which backs a bill threatening to impose a 27.5 percent tariff on Chinese products. Economist Fred Bergsten is a self-proclaimed free trader who thinks a trade barrier may be needed...
[June 15, 2005, 14:55]
Citrix: Keep mission-critical business off the cloud
News Companies should not place mission-critical aspects of their business on the cloud," said Duursma, speaking at the IDC CIO Summit 2008 held in Singapore on Tuesday. Software as a service is "several years away" from being enterprise-ready, but...
[September 3, 2008, 8:54]
Software licences are bogged down in tech sprawl
Articles I see policies and procedures being put into place to add rigour to the environment, so the CIO can understand what they have, rather than buy new licences. Software is an increasingly valuable element of a modern company's assets.
[October 28, 2009, 11:24]
Police IT Organisation set to be scrapped
News If the review's proposals are adopted, PITO's IT responsibilities would transfer to the PNICTG, which would be headed by a CIO and report to a board comprising representatives from the Association of Chief Police Officers and the Association of...
[June 27, 2005, 16:05]
Royal Mail to make £2m RFID investment
News Royal Mail CIO David Burden would not be drawn on the project but did say the technology will be used in future "to monitor the flow of mail through our pipeline, in order to identify bottlenecks and improve quality of service".
[February 28, 2005, 15:10]
Gartner: It's business intelligence 2.0 time
News Gartner's annual CIO survey showed that BI is still an important subject in the minds of senior IT managers. Forget talk of Web 2.0, it's time for BI 2.0, according to Gartner. The analyst group has laid out its case for improving the use of...
[January 30, 2007, 16:18]
Mobile market to double in five years
News From a CIO's perspective, that's a nightmare for support," claimed Jones, warning that increased mobility has its downsides. Analyst Gartner predicted on Monday that the number of mobile users globally is set to double from 1.5 billion people today...
[April 18, 2005, 17:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Well, they do a very good job of serving the CIO audience. Wednesday 28/9/2005 There's a breathless hush in the office this morn, but it's nothing to do with cricket. Last night was the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards for which no cute name...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Egg says rich clients are the future online
Talkback The days of CTO/CIO's that do not understand "business drivers" are numbered. I saw the demo, and there was nothing apart from the service being "always on", that couldn't be achieved by thin client technology today.
[February 11, 2004, 10:27]
MoD report calls for better information management
News The CIO Systems Direction Group will take the lead on measures designed to provide value for money under the Operational Efficiency Programme. The armed forces need to 'significantly improve' their use of information, according to a Ministry of...
[November 18, 2009, 12:29]
Keep pace with WLAN security developments
News To get a better view of the problems with this technology, the ways to combat those problems, and the new security trends, here is a closer look at wireless security from the CIO perspective. Deploying first-rate wireless security tools is a...
[March 25, 2003, 8:06]
Nokia: Firms hot on Wi-Fi, cold on 3G
News G is yet to meet the needs of the CIO of a company," he said. Most businesses have little interest in buying 3G mobile phones at present, according to senior executives at Nokia. Speaking at the mobile phone maker's Mobility conference in Monaco...
[November 3, 2004, 16:38]
UK trailing USA in adoption of open source defence technology
Blog Combine this positive development with the fact that the UK’s CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of open source across the public sector way back in February of the year and you can see why this is an issue.
[October 19, 2009, 8:28]
It might be fit for business and some rich showoffs.
Talkback I would ban them as a CIO, their users are probably independently minded loose cannons who won't follow corporate security policies and endanger the whole business for appearances. Perhaps you misread me or I miswrote myself.
[June 10, 2008, 9:11]
