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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

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

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

Fulton County headquarters

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

Data centre virtualisation: less is 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

Palm vein pattern biometrics are used to secure customer transactions

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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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