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IT Directors Not Gambling On Security
News Half of IT directors are willing to bet less than £1 that their IT systems are safe from hacker attack, according to a series of surveys from data solutions firm CMG Admiral. At three different security events -- the South West Insurance Forum, the...
[July 6, 2001, 13:59]
IT Directors Rake In Top Pay
News Nearly one in ten UK IT directors and chief executive officers earn more than £110,000 a year, according to the results of this year's silicon.com Skills Survey. This year, 6.3 percent of silicon.com readers -- or 241 individuals -- who took part...
[April 1, 2003, 8:27]
Reforms Pile Pressure On IT Directors
News Lawyers say the change will put more responsibility onto IT directors, who could now be held liable for the consequences of, for example, a large outsourcing contract that fails and costs their company money.
[November 9, 2005, 14:00]
Overwork And Burnout Bowl Over UK IT Directors
News British IT directors are working longer hours than their counterparts in the rest of Europe and their family life is suffering, according to a brace of studies published on Thursday. Research conducted by Mercury, the IT software and services...
[April 1, 2004, 18:00]
Overwork And Burnout Bowl Over UK IT Directors
Talkback Never mind the IT directors, what about the over worked, under paid and under appreciated support staff who take often mindless flak from users with bad attitudes and worse computer literacy? If working a 60 hour week gets me £45k then I'd be a...
[April 2, 2004, 9:19]
Reforms Pile Pressure On IT Directors
Talkback Increased liability at the decision making level will ensure that liability will also be introduced at the level of suppliers, vendors, advisors, etc. That can only help to increase the number of projects that are far more realistic in their...
[November 9, 2005, 22:11]
Overwork And Burnout Bowl Over UK IT Directors
Talkback "UK productivity is still relatively poor. If managers are working very long hours and staff are working very long hours and productivity is low, then.what the managers are doing in their long hours must be counterproductive.
[April 3, 2004, 13:18]
Employees 'more Of A Worry Than Terrorists'
News Employee blunders and hardware and software failures are more of a worry for IT directors than the much-hyped threat of terrorism when it comes to disaster recovery planning, according to a new survey.
[October 16, 2003, 13:55]
IT Pros Fear Offshoring, Executives Don't
News According to the 2006 Skills Survey, commissioned by ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com, IT directors and chief information officers were the most confident their jobs would not be offshored. Board directors and CEOs/CFOs/COOs were next in line, with...
[May 17, 2006, 15:35]
Music Players 'cause Trouble' For IT Helpdesks
News IT directors have hit out against the use of digital music players at work because they increase the workload on the helpdesk, a study published this week claimed. The study, conducted by research company Vanson Bourne for software provider...
[October 26, 2005, 16:20]
E-government Threatened By IT Underspending
News Almost all public sector IT directors believe their budgets are too low to allow them to achieve their e-government targets, according to a report published on Tuesday. The survey, conducted by the IT consultancy arm of Unisys, also found that the...
[July 10, 2002, 12:17]
Gartner Backs IM For Business Use
News Instant messaging is ready for businesses to use -- and if IT directors don't pick it up quickly, end users will adopt it in spite of them. Although Gartner believes the current IT recession will last into 2004, IT directors or CIOs should treat it...
[December 16, 2002, 7:40]
Service Gives Bean Counters A 360 View Of IT
News A startup service is attempting to bridge the communications gap between finance directors and IT chiefs by making technical operations more easily understandable and justifiable to the accounts department and other board members.
[April 17, 2000, 14:55]
A Third Of CIOs Want To Change Jobs
News More than a third of IT directors are looking to change their job within the next 12 months, according to an exclusive survey by ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com. The poll of 267 IT chiefs was conducted on board the Oriana cruise ship at the annual...
[June 20, 2006, 11:25]
Companies Failing To Support Home Workers
News More than one-third of UK companies may be failing to look after home workers adequately, according to a survey of IT directors, the results of which were published this week which warned firms that they must include teleworkers' homes in their...
[September 15, 2005, 15:55]
Time Crisis: Administrators Called In
Talkback Unfortunately - the 'guys in charge' (which is laughable in itself) will probably get away with it - as the directors did a runner last week, who can be held to account now? I find the whole situation a disgrace and the directors should be held to...
[July 27, 2005, 15:24]
Public Sector 'lags Private Outsourcers'
News The survey of 1,000 IT directors, CFOs and senior business managers in 14 countries across Europe was carried out by IDC and sponsored by Xerox. He said vendors bidding for business take very different approaches to the public and private sector...
[November 10, 2003, 8:15]
SMEs Embrace Hybrid Outsourcing
News Many small and medium-sized businesses are bringing parts of their IT back in-house, following widespread dissatisfaction over the outsourced approach, according to research published by the Institute of Directors (IoD) this week.
[September 28, 2006, 13:45]
Public Sector Bemoans Under-resourced, Ineffective IT
News A poll of 50 public sector finance directors found that while the management decisions of local authority CEOs are strongly influenced by government key performance indicators (KPIs), current IT systems are not effective in sourcing and analysing...
[June 18, 2003, 10:23]
IT Departments Left Out Of Outsourcing Decisions
News The company found that two thirds of the financial directors and chief executives surveyed believe the finance division is far more influential than the IT department when it comes to decisions about outsourcing.
[November 8, 2002, 16:05]
