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Today's CIOs must 'fulfil revenue targets'
News Chief information officers are increasingly being assessed on their ability to drive IT to achieve revenue targets, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management.
[February 1, 2008, 10:07]
Extent of UK tech skills crisis in doubt
News The UK is not heading for a technology skills crisis, despite fears to the contrary, according to chief information officers and the audience at the silicon.com CIO Forum held on Monday. Broad said chief information officers and IT directors need...
[October 16, 2007, 9:26]
Virtualisation: Key to tackling tech challenges
News Chipmakers believe their next generation of processors is stepping up to the challenges faced by chief information officers: growing volumes of data, increasing demands on that data and rising energy costs.
[September 17, 2007, 13:47]
IT professionals face tough market
News A report released by IT professional outsourcing firm Robert Half Technology showed chief technology officers in US companies expect few changes in their IT workforce size next quarter. The poll surveyed more than 1,400 chief information officers...
[November 26, 2002, 9:58]
Brown promises police more technology
News Gordon Brown delivered a promise to supply police with new technology to fight crime and reduce paperwork as he addressed members of the Association of Chief Police Officers at their annual conference in Manchester on Tuesday.
[June 20, 2007, 16:11]
2005: More money means more decisions
News Chief information officers in the United States and Europe are planning to increase their information technology staff rosters next year, according to a report from Merrill Lynch. Although there were a few exceptions for some pieces of key...
[December 31, 2004, 11:10]
UK Tech Summit draws big names
News We have the heads of most of the major technology vendors, together with the most influential chief information officers and chief technology officers. This is a big issue for chief information officers at the moment, and for vendors trying to...
[August 27, 2003, 11:20]
Execs outline the importance of CFOs
News Executives from a number of well-known companies, including technology stalwart Google and business applications vendor SAS Institute, spoke of the rapidly expanding list of duties assigned to today's chief financial officers at an event in Newton...
[November 22, 2004, 8:35]
CIOs tip more spending
News Overall information technology spending in the United States is stabilising but not likely to grow much in the near future, according to a Merrill Lynch survey of chief information officers released last week.
[October 14, 2003, 9:50]
CIOs last three years in their posts
News Chief information officers stay in their job for just over three years, even though the complex technology projects they are in charge of can take far longer to deliver results. The survey of chief information officers at FTSE 350 companies also...
[August 28, 2007, 8:53]
Who's in charge of IT in London?
News While European cities such as Paris, Munich and Bergen in Norway have appointed chief information officers and chief technology officers, London has no one individual with over-arching responsibility for implementation of technology according to...
[July 6, 2004, 17:05]
iPhone 2.0 vying with BlackBerry in the enterprise
News But the iPhone is fighting a guerrilla war in the business world, thanks to adoption by influential executives, chief information officers rethinking their approach to deploying technology, and younger workers who move seamlessly between their...
[November 17, 2008, 11:13]
Virtual courts to cut police red tape
News The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, chief constable Ken Jones, praised the use of technology to reduce the administrative burden on police officers. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith accepted his recommendations, saying his review...
[February 11, 2008, 8:34]
Firms get frugal with holiday gifts
News Hardware and software vendors are especially eager to play Santa Claus for chief information officers and chief technology officers, who often control multimillion-dollar purchasing budgets. But chief technology officers and chief information...
[December 4, 2001, 12:03]
Study: CIOs split on Web services
News Chief information officers are split when it comes to choosing between Microsoft and Java technologies for Web services, according to a new study from Merrill Lynch. Two-thirds of the 100 US and European chief information officers surveyed by...
[March 28, 2002, 6:31]
Hiring isn't a 2003 CIO resolution
News And he's apparently not alone: 86 percent of chief information officers in the US don't expect any staffing changes in the first quarter of the year, according to a recent survey by Robert Half Technology.
[January 6, 2003, 12:22]
Merrill forecasts IT spending growth in 2002
News Technology spending will continue to be shaped by the effects of 11 September and will be limited to a more select cadre of vendors this year, according to Merrill's survey of 75 chief information officers in the United States and 35 in Europe.
[January 2, 2002, 15:05]
CIOs bearing burden of disaster recovery role
News Chief information officers are being put in charge of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies, even though there should be a broader response to the issue, a panel of experts has warned. CIO Connect's Nichols added the chief financial...
[November 8, 2007, 10:24]
Survey: Tech execs retrenching
News Chief executive officers are truly in a quandary and have differing opinions about when the turnaround will occur and how to position themselves for the upswing. Chief executive officers found the integrated business models too complex to operate...
[December 5, 2002, 13:43]
Business and tech execs clash on disaster preparedness
News Information technology leaders surveyed included senior IT executives in business units and chief information officers. The business leaders polled included senior financial executives such as chief financial officers and chief executive officers...
[July 14, 2003, 8:22]
