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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 16 May 2012
Our monthly round-up of the latest CIO moves from around the world, including changes in IT leadership at: Lufthansa, Bank of America, Burger King, PostNord, Johnson & Johnson, Western Union, REA Group, Credit Suisse, Cipla, Mouchel, The Hershey Company and New York City. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 26 Apr 2012
How Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald has placed digital technology, and CIO Filippo Passerini, at the heart of the business. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Thu 26 Apr 2012
As digital channels come to dominate customer interaction, CIOs and CMOs are increasingly working in tandem. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 18 Apr 2012
Our monthly round-up of the latest major CIO moves from around the world, including IT leadership changes at: Deutsche Bank, the US Government, SingTel, Southwest Airlines, Axa Winterthur, 7 Days Group Holdings, the UK Government, Voyages-SNCF.com, Optus, the German Army and JetBlue Airways. ...Read more
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Posted by Steve Wozniak | Thu 5 Apr 2012
Real innovation means rejecting the past, says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 2 Apr 2012
Research shows that a focus on business skills is key to a CIO's career progression. ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Wed 28 Mar 2012
Women make up a disproportionately low percentage of IT professionals. Stefanie Kemp, CIO of Vorwerk, explains how the household goods giant has has managed to grow that figure to 40%. ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 12 Mar 2012
“You have to be a risk-taker, spot things that will have a major impact on the business and be an enabler,” says Oliver Bussmann, the global CIO of the world’s largest business applications company. In this in-depth interview, he also discusses his career move from IT buyer to vendor, the need for increased business agility, and deploying iPads to half the SAP workforce. ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 6 Feb 2012
The latest Thinkers50, the biennial listing of the world’s top management gurus, recognized the outstanding thought-leadership of the likes of Clayton Christensen, Vijay Govindarajan, Jim Collins and Malcolm Gladwell. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 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. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 17 Jan 2012
Our monthly round-up of the latest major CIO moves from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Fri 16 Dec 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Dec 2011
The rise of social media is enabling remarkable levels of customer engagement and employee collaboration, highlights Dominic Shine, group CIO of global events company Reed Exhibitions. ...Read more
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Posted by Nicola Gillen & Francesca Jack | Mon 28 Nov 2011
If technology is underpinning flexible working, then the CIO is the new enabler of productivity, argue DEGW’s Nicola Gillen and Francesca Jack. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 24 Nov 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by | Mon 7 Nov 2011
Who should make the major technology investment decisions in a business? Arun Gupta, group CTO of Indian department store chain Shoppers Stop, argues that CFOs are now an integral part of the process — so CIOs need to cultivate strong relationships with their financial chiefs. ...Read more
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Posted by Mahesh Shetty | Mon 31 Oct 2011
Who should make the major technology investment decisions in a business? Mahesh Shetty, COO and CFO of Encore Enterprise, argues that guiding technology strategy is a natural extension of the CFO’s role. ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 24 Oct 2011
How Bob McKinnon is using his diverse skillset — accumulated through his CEO, CFO and CIO experience in a variety of companies — to lead Westpac's ambitious IT turnaround. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 18 Oct 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 17 Oct 2011
Mobile, social and cloud-based technologies are rapidly changing the way most people work. In this in-depth report, we examine how CIOs are enabling the change from “workplace” to “workspace.” ...Read more
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Posted by Jo Faragher | Mon 17 Oct 2011
Mass IT consumption is having a major impact on the way we all think, argues neuroscientist Susan Greenfield — and it’s vital that business leaders understand the profound implications. ...Read more
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Posted by Jim Anderson | Mon 26 Sep 2011
IT teams often fail to highlight their achievements to the rest of the business. Dr. Jim Anderson, head of Blue Elephant Consulting, argues that CIOs need to align their “campaigns” more closely with the business cycle. ...Read more
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Posted by José Carlos Eiras | Mon 19 Sep 2011
IT teams often fail to highlight their achievements to the rest of the business. José Carlos Eiras, ex-CIO of DHL Express USA and General Motors EMEA, argues that CIOs need to promote IT’s successes more aggressively. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 29 Aug 2011
The process of applying computer-game techniques to workplace activities and applications — gamification — is set to become a mainstream approach in many companies. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 22 Aug 2011
A provocative piece of research suggests that CIOs’ voices are not being heard clearly enough in the boardroom. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Wed 17 Aug 2011
Like the rest of their organizations, it appears CIOs have also fallen in love with the form factor as a work tool. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 10 Aug 2011
Our regular round-up of the major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Thu 28 Jul 2011
Nikolaos Costaras, CIO of Greek telco WIND Hellas, has always believed in driving business advantage through technological innovation. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Jul 2011
The world’s biggest social network is making huge inroads into the enterprise — with highly positive results, believes Mike Schroepfer, its VP of engineering. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Fri 15 Jul 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Wed 13 Jul 2011
Facebook is one of the world's most agile and creative businesses. Mike Schroepfer, its VP of engineering, explains why. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Fri 17 Jun 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 6 Jun 2011
A strong business management background and a breadth of international experience have enabled Telefónica’s Fernanda Torquati to lead a global transformation of the telco's IT. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 16 May 2011
Michelin’s CIO, Agnès Mauffrey, discusses how she has re-cast the tire company’s IT organization as a tightly aligned service partner to the business. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 12 May 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 26 Apr 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest CIO jobs news from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Apr 2011
Since he was appointed as the US’s first government CIO, Vivek Kundra has pursued a transformational agenda for the country’s public sector, blazing a trail in cloud computing, IT transparency and open data. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Fri 8 Apr 2011
Is it possible to incentivize employees by providing them with cool technology? The results of one survey suggest the answer is yes. ...Read more
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Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 21 Mar 2011
In a career that has taken him from organic chemicals and hotels to some of the US’s largest government agencies, Jim Rinaldi’s latest mission is to support “the robotic exploration of the solar system.” ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 17 Mar 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Mark Nicholls | Mon 14 Mar 2011
Organizations need to adopt a more rigorous approach in the quest for genuinely happy users, argues Fujitsu’s Mark Nicholls. ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence & Kenny MacIver | Fri 11 Mar 2011
Turning great ideas into great results... and finding the CIO’s “soft” center: two of the latest must-reads for IT leaders. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 23 Feb 2011
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world. ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 24 Jan 2011
No stranger to controversy, Bjørn Lomborg says the headlong rush to cut CO2 emissions is a “hysterical response” to global warming. The renowned author, business school professor and think-tank founder explains why the world needs to attack the problem of climate change on multiple fronts. ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 17 Jan 2011
Our monthly round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 27 Dec 2010
Get ready for swarming, collectives and sketch-ups: the world of work will change dramatically over the next decade, according to research group Gartner ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 22 Dec 2010
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world ...Read more
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Posted by Andrew McAfee | Mon 6 Dec 2010
As “born digital” kids enter the workforce, they are bringing with them some questionable attitudes to information sharing and confidentiality. However, Andrew McAfee, author of the best-selling business book Enterprise 2.0 and a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, argues that this is not going to create a workplace revolution ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin Eyres | Mon 29 Nov 2010
As “born digital” kids enter the workforce, they are bringing with them some questionable attitudes to information sharing and confidentiality. Kevin Eyres, European managing director of LinkedIn, argues that organisations are embracing this more open approach in order to increase productivity and innovation ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Wed 24 Nov 2010
Exclusive interview: The co-author of Groundswell and Empowered on the latest business challenges and opportunities presented by the ubiquity of social media ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 23 Nov 2010
Our regular round-up of the latest major CIO movers and shakers from around the world ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 22 Nov 2010
With a career that has taken in the minicomputer industry, financial data services and supermarkets, Nokia senior vice president and global CIO John Clarke is now a driving force behind the Finnish company’s culture of collaborative innovation ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Tue 19 Oct 2010
Mass involvement in social media – by employees, consumers and citizens – is prompting organisations to adopt new engagement models and working practices. In our exclusive interview, we ask net guru Clay Shirky how they can turn a “cognitive surplus” into real business value ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Tue 19 Oct 2010
Nicholas Carr believes the internet is undermining our ability to concentrate and think. In our exclusive interview, he highlights what he believes are the consequences to business ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Tue 19 Oct 2010
Our updated list of leading CIOs who regularly use Twitter and are worth following ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 11 Oct 2010
As organisations open up the use of social media in the workplace, they are having to redraft previously proscriptive policies. We talk to one company defining the new rules of engagement ...Read more
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Posted by Nick Lansley | Mon 27 Sep 2010
“Don’t talk to me about technology; I’m a business person” is an increasingly common refrain in CIO circles. But does a pedigree in business obviate the need for deep IT knowledge? Not at all, says Nick Lansley, head of R&D at Tesco.com ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 23 Sep 2010
Our monthly round-up of the latest major CIO moves from around the world ...Read more
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Posted by Wayne Brown & Polley McClure | Mon 20 Sep 2010
There are some very clear factors that encourage potential female CIOs to shoot for the top IT job, say Dr Wayne Brown and Dr Polley McClure – and others that drive them away ...Read more
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Posted by Arun Gupta | Mon 13 Sep 2010
“Don’t talk to me about technology; I’m a business person” is an increasingly common refrain in CIO circles. But does a pedigree in business obviate the need for deep IT knowledge? Yes, says Arun Gupta, CIO at K Raheja Corp, the Indian real estate, hotels and retail giant ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 30 Aug 2010
The career path of Denis Edwards, global CIO of recruitment giant Manpower, who brings to his role one of the broadest bases of business experience of any IT leader, from the movie industry and music to management consultancy and hotels ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 10 Aug 2010
Our monthly round-up of the latest major CIO appointments from around the world ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Wed 28 Jul 2010
Facebook may be poised to follow other consumer-first brands, such as Google, into the corporate space ...Read more
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Posted by Kim Thomas | Mon 19 Jul 2010
Only one in five IT professionals is female - at least in Western economies. How can CIOs rebalance the workforce by attracting that vast, untapped skills-base? ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010
Our regular round-up of the latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the online business sector ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010
A round-up of the latest CIO appointments from the US and Canada ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010
A round-up of the latest appointments from Europe, the Middle East and Africa ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 12 Jul 2010
A round-up of the latest CIO career moves in the Asia-Pacific region ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 28 Jun 2010
Hire experts, line them up and play a disciplined game, says Toby Redshaw, CIO of UK-based insurance giant Aviva. It certainly worked for him… ...Read more
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Posted by Thornton May | Wed 9 Jun 2010
Acclaimed futurist and CIO coach Thornton May argues that the sky's the limit for CIOs - provided they take a proactive approach to innovation ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver & James Lawrence | Tue 25 May 2010
Two of the latest must-reads for CIOs: a business maverick's story and a novel approach to Lean and Six Sigma ...Read more
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Posted by Jim Ginsburgh | Mon 10 May 2010
Jim Ginsburgh, former VP of enterprise architecture at BP, argues that BYOC is the only way for enterprises to go ...Read more
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Posted by Alain Fontaine | Thu 6 May 2010
Increasingly, IT leaders are having to respond to demands to support end-users' own devices in the workplace. But how far should organisations travel down this road? Alain Fontaine, head of IT at online portal atHome International Group, shares his own experience in this area ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Thu 22 Apr 2010
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, corporate maverick and software-as-a-service pioneer, speaks exclusively to i-cio.com about the new world order of cloud computing, the creation of "a Facebook for the enterprise" - and how he tied a ribbon around the App Store for his hero, Steve Jobs ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 22 Apr 2010
Our regular round-up of the latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the automotive sector ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 19 Apr 2010
Surprisingly few heads of IT see the value - or feel they have the latitude - to float their thoughts in the public blogosphere. Here's our updated list of the top 20 active CIO bloggers ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 12 Apr 2010
Our list of 50 leading CIOs who regularly use Twitter and are worth following ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Mon 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 ...Read more
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Posted by Anthony Bradley | Mon 1 Feb 2010
Are Web 2.0 platforms a vital component of the connected enterprise? Anthony Bradley, managing VP at Gartner and an adviser on the enterprise employment of Web 2.0 technologies, says yes - but you need to manage them correctly ...Read more
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Posted by Toby Redshaw | Mon 25 Jan 2010
With over 50% of CIOs banning the use of social networking in the workplace, the debate rages over whether Web 2.0 platforms are a vital component of the connected enterprise. Toby Redshaw, global CIO of Aviva, believes Web 2.0 can make the insurance giant "big and agile" ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin White | Mon 18 Jan 2010
Our regular round-up of the latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the automotive sector ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jan 2010
Want to become the CEO of IT? Then hire a CFO of IT. It's a role that has long been championed by analyst group Gartner, but only in recent months has the title started to appear with some frequency on recruitment sites ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin White | Mon 19 Oct 2009
As group CIO and head of real estate at power and automation engineering company ABB, Haider Rashid manages nearly $2 billion of costs and around 4,000 internal and outsourced employees. His management roles at some of the world's largest life science companies, where he led major consolidation and strategy projects, provided the grounding for a shift into one of the top jobs in global IT ...Read more
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Posted by Andrew Keen | Mon 12 Oct 2009
A small but growing band of CIOs are maintaining public blogs. Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur and self-styled challenger to the "mad Utopians of Web 2.0", argues that they're wasting their time. ...Read more
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Posted by John Suffolk | Mon 5 Oct 2009
A small but growing band of CIOs are maintaining public blogs. In part 1 of our debate, John Suffolk, the UK government's CIO, explains the value of putting his thoughts online. ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009
Surprisingly few heads of IT see the value - or feel they have the latitude - to float their thoughts in the public blogosphere. Here's our list of 13 active CIO bloggers... ...Read more
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Posted by Kenny MacIver | Wed 30 Sep 2009
Reid Hoffman, founder and chairman of LinkedIn, is on a mission: to disrupt the fabric of business by cutting across the traditional lines of professional interaction. In our exclusive interview, he argues that the revolution in corporate social networking is creating rapid innovation, competitive edge and accelerated learning... ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin White | Wed 30 Sep 2009
The latest CIO appointments from around the world, including a special focus on the retail sector ...Read more
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Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 10 Aug 2009
Successful environmental strategies from "green" business leaders and the inside track on Apple's ruling genius - two of the latest must-reads for CIOs ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin White | Mon 6 Jul 2009
Innovation and agility have been decisive factors in the successful career path of Filippo Passerini, P&G's president of global business services and CIO ...Read more
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Posted by Andrew Donoghue | Wed 1 Jul 2009
The French government's experiment in open source has led to huge public sector cost savings and unprecedented levels of control over its software. Professor Roberto Di Cosmo, one of Europe's leading open source experts, explains why the rest of the world should sit up and take notice ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin White | Wed 1 Jul 2009
The key to success for any leader is having the right blend of people around you. Our special report examines how top CIOs have assembled and managed their own world-beating teams. ...Read more
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Posted by Kevin White | Wed 1 Jul 2009
The latest CIO appointments, with a special focus on the public sector - where many bodies are taking advantage of the current climate to upgrade their CIO teams with talent from companies in the most extreme turmoil. ...Read more
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Posted by Andy McCue | Fri 1 May 2009
Jane Scott is CIO of food service distributor 3663. She joined the company in 2003, after seven years of working internationally, including in the US and Japan, for Mars and Coca-Cola Schweppes. Here, we chart her rise to the top ...Read more
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Posted by Charlotte Moore | Mon 30 Mar 2009
“Dr Doom” Marc Faber has a knack of predicting economic traumas, and he believes the current crisis is so dire that it could result in a revolution or war. We meet the outspoken economist to discover his predictions for the future and find out why, despite being a pessimistic Swiss economist, he’s definitely not dull ...Read more
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Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 30 Mar 2009
The impact of the recession has meant considerable changes in the CIO landscape, particularly in financial services. Here’s a round-up of CIOs on the move and the top positions currently vacant ...Read more
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