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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
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
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
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
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
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
Virtualisation gives
Fulton County more bang for its buck
30 Mar 2009
To increase efficiency and save taxpayer cash, Fulton County’s CIO adopted a server consolidation strategy using virtualisation ...more
University virtualises to slash IT costs
30 Mar 2009
Japan's Toyo Gakuen University (TGU) cut hardware maintenance costs by 30 per cent by consolidating its servers and using virtualisation technology ...more
Banking on palm vein biometrics
30 Mar 2009
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi turned to cutting edge palm vein biometrics from Fujitsu to help secure customer transactions on a new combined credit and ATM bank card. ...more
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PC-over-IP time
Posted by Kenny MacIver | 8 Mar 2010
After the huge success of server virtualisation, many organisations have been eyeing the desktop as the next target for a virtual makeover. Now PC-over-IP aims to remove the performance barrier ...more
Make or break: Why M&As need CIO involvement
Posted by Hüseyin Tanriverdi | 1 Mar 2010
CIOs play a critical role in ensuring that M&As create business value, argues Dr Hüseyin Tanriverdi, associate professor of information, risk and operations management at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business ...more
This Way Up: Annette Vernon, UK Home Office
Posted by Andy McCue | 22 Feb 2010
A lifelong public servant, UK Home Office CIO Annette Vernon worked her way up through the Civil Service from admin officer to chief information officer. Today, she manages an extensive IT remit that covers policing, counter-terrorism, immigration and the government’s ID card scheme ...more
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