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Dexia's holistic approach to risk management

19 Jul 2010

Stéphane Hurtaud, chief security officer of Belgo-French banking group Dexia, explains the four keys pillars of the company’s information security strategy ...more

Dexia Tower: The banking group's striking head office in Brussels

Daimler's Open Innovation Network

22 Apr 2010

Automotive giant Daimler has drawn inspiration from consumer Web 2.0 collaboration tools to create a new approach to innovation ...more

Daimler's aim was to provide a platform that would encourage people from different disciplines to talk to each other, whatever their location

A transformational role at Network Rail

22 Apr 2010

How Network Rail's Catherine Doran is pursuing an agenda for change through the dual responsibilities of CIO and director of corporate development ...more

Catherine Doran, CIO and director of corporate development, Network Rail

Outsourcing end-user IT at Allianz

18 Jan 2010

By outsourcing end-user IT, insurance giant Allianz has cut costs, improved service quality and freed up resources. For Dr Martin Elspermann, COO of Allianz’s services wing, the focus on adding value was key. ...more

Grand designs: Allianz aims to save €80 million from outsourcing

The Thomson Reuters merger

18 Jan 2010

The cloud proved to be a critical new sourcing option in the merger between information services giants Thomson and Reuters, explains John Spillane, head of business process, Global Business Operations, Thomson Reuters. ...more

Marks & Spencer's
green initiative

30 Sep 2009

Marks & Spencer is determined to show that its green claims go deeper than the colour of its logo - and IT is helping the UK retailer put its "Plan A" into action ...more

Marks & Spencer aims to cut energy use by around 25%: streamlining IT  will play a significant part in this

Ireland's Electricity Supply Board on
de-risking IT

30 Sep 2009

Peter O'Shea, CIO of Ireland's Electricity Supply Board, explains how he is using IT governance initiatives to ensure the company's technology projects deliver maximum value. ...more

Ireland's ESB: Focusing on benefit management to drive fuller value from its IT investments

Carlsberg's CIO on applying lean IT

2 Jul 2009

Kenneth Egelund Schmidt, VP and CIO of Carlsberg, explains how lean thinking has, among other benefits, enabled his team to reduce a service desk cycle from several weeks to just one day ...more

Carlsberg: enjoying the benefits of lean IT

Team building at the
UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office

2 Jul 2009

Faced with a raft of new programmes, the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office re-shaped its IT management team. Tony Mather, its CIO, saw this as a chance to extend colleagues’ career opportunities ...more

Passport to a re-freshed management structure

Deutsche Bahn keeps IT on track

30 Mar 2009

IT is key to keeping the German rail company running and a data centre relocation and consolidation project has saved millions of Euros and cut new hardware costs by as much as 20 per cent. ...more

Deutsche Bahn: IT is a key factor in keeping the trains running

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Facebook in the enterprise

Posted by James Lawrence | 28 Jul 2010

Facebook may be poised to follow other consumer-first brands, such as Google, into the corporate space ...more

Office 2010: stick, twist... or cloud?

Posted by i-cio.com staff | 26 Jul 2010

Choosing the right office suite is no longer just about waiting for the next Microsoft release ...more

The new shape of innovation

Posted by James Lawrence | 19 Jul 2010

Mulitnational organisations need to transform the way they innovate – or risk being sidelined, say Jaideep Prabhu and Navi Radjou from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. For them, the future lies in the BRICs… ...more

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