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M-commerce innovation at Tesco

26 January 2012

When online grocery store Tesco.com wanted to make shopping as painless as possible for its customers, a mobile-centric strategy was the solution. ...more

M-commerce innovation at Tesco

Empowering business agility at Comic Relief

17 October 2011

The UK's highest profile charity relies on cloud's flexibility to process a surge of donations on its big night. ...more

Empowering business agility at Comic Relief

Supporting workforce mobility at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

17 October 2011

How the global law firm is embracing consumer IT to encourage more flexible working practices. ...more

Supporting workforce mobility at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

InterContinental Hotels’ expansion in China

18 July 2011

How InterContinental Hotels’ global CIO, Tom Conophy, is helping to drive the company’s ambitious plans ― to double the size of its business in China over the next five years. ...more

InterContinental Hotels’ expansion in China

Cloud’s early adopters: Eversheds

18 April 2011

The international law firm has deployed cloud services to manage sensitive legal documents cost-effectively. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: Eversheds

Cloud’s early adopters: US Department of Agriculture

18 April 2011

The US government department unified its fragmented email systems — used by 120,000 employees in 5,000 offices across 100 countries — with a move to cloud. The cost: just $8 per user. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: US Department of Agriculture

Cloud’s early adopters: CERN

18 April 2011

How the European nuclear research center, CERN, embraced cloud to ease changes to IT service management in a dynamic environment where guests outnumber permanent staff by three to one. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: CERN

Cloud’s early adopters: US Army

18 April 2011

By innovating in personnel recruitment with cloud services support, the US Army showed a 33% productivity gain. ...more

Cloud’s early adopters: US Army

Procter & Gamble’s open innovation ecosystem

18 April 2011

P&G saw its fortunes turn after creating an open innovation ecosystem that is now the source of more than half of its new products. ...more

Procter & Gamble’s open innovation ecosystem

Converting data into business value at Volvo

24 January 2011

How access to vast, new data resources is driving manufacturing excellence, customer satisfaction and vehicle safety at Volvo Cars. ...more

Converting data into business value at Volvo

Delivering mobile services to customers

19 October 2010

How global shipping giant UPS responded to the need to create a full mobile experience for its customers ...more

Delivering mobile services to customers

Dexia's holistic approach to risk management

19 July 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's holistic approach to risk management

Daimler's Open Innovation Network

22 April 2010

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

Daimler's Open Innovation Network

A transformational role at Network Rail

22 April 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

A transformational role at Network Rail

Outsourcing end-user IT at Allianz

18 January 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

Outsourcing end-user IT at Allianz

The Thomson Reuters merger

18 January 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

The Thomson Reuters merger

Ireland's Electricity Supply Board on
de-risking IT

30 September 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 Electricity Supply Board on<br> de-risking IT

Carlsberg's CIO on applying lean IT

2 July 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's CIO on applying lean IT

Team building at the
UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office

2 July 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

Team building at the <br>UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Features

Supercomputing: The next generation

Posted by Jim Mortleman & Kenny MacIver | 2 Feb 2012

A new class of high-performance computers is bringing solutions to many of the biggest challenges of business and society within reach. ...more

Supercomputing in the cloud

Posted by David Smith | 2 Feb 2012

The latent power of “big data” will push high-performance computing into the cloud, argues Fujitsu’s David Smith. ...more

Big picture thinking:
Joi Ito, director, MIT Media Lab

Posted by James Lawrence | 26 Jan 2012

Joi Ito, one of the world's leading authorities on business and technology, contemplates the impact of the Internet of Things, big data, open hardware — and the CIO’s changing world. ...more

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