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Interview: Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and CIO Filippo Passerini
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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The new bond between CIO and CMO
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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Special Report:
The design revolution in enterprise IT
Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 26 Apr 2012
The phenomenon of consumerization has triggered an upheaval in the way enterprise IT is designed. CIOs who understand this can deliver major business benefits. ...Read more
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The rise of the business keynote
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Thu 26 Apr 2012
Recognizing digital innovation as the key to their future success, CEOs are taking to the stage at tech events. ...Read more
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This Way Up: Oliver Bussmann, global CIO, SAP
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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The world’s top management gurus ranked
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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Supercomputing in the cloud
Posted by David Smith | Thu 2 Feb 2012
The latent power of “big data” will push high-performance computing into the cloud, argues Fujitsu’s David Smith. ...Read more
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Big picture thinking:
Joi Ito, director, MIT Media Lab
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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Special Report: The move to mobile first
Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 26 Jan 2012
Mobile devices will soon be the most popular means of accessing the Internet. How are global businesses seizing the many opportunities this presents? ...Read more
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Empowering the global CIO
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Thu 26 Jan 2012
Over the past year, a clear set of themes has dominated the agendas of global CIOs. We asked Rod Vawdrey, president of the Global Business Group at ICT leader Fujitsu, how some of these major challenges are being addressed. ...Read more
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2012… and beyond
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Thu 26 Jan 2012
From spending forecasts, to the widespread uptake of enterprise cloud computing, to CIO salaries: a handy round-up of key predictions from the analysts. ...Read more
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IT in the era of uncertainty
Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 26 Jan 2012
Renewed economic instability is causing CIOs to seek the flexibility of cloud computing. ...Read more
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Security: Why it’s everyone’s problem
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 2 Jan 2012
The consumerization of IT is making information security a bigger headache than ever, according to research by analyst group Frost & Sullivan. ...Read more
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APIs: The future of ecommerce
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 19 Dec 2011
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are an increasingly popular means of growing an online business. ...Read more
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Using social media to drive customer engagement
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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Social indexing: The human touch comes to web ranking
Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Wed 30 Nov 2011
For businesses seeking to enhance their online presence, being “liked” may soon be more important than SEO. ...Read more
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Where mobile meets social
Posted by Kevin Lynch | Mon 14 Nov 2011
The era of location-based social computing has only just begun, says Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe Systems. ...Read more
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Do CFOs have too much control over the IT budget? Part 2
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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Do CFOs have too much control over the IT budget? Part 1
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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This Way Up: Bob McKinnon, group executive of technology, Westpac
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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The acceleration of innovation
Posted by James Lawrence | Tue 18 Oct 2011
In this exclusive interview, INSEAD’s Professor Soumitra Dutta discusses how technology is hastening the pace of innovation — and how businesses must adapt to meet the new global demands this is creating. ...Read more
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From workplace to workspace:
The rapidly changing nature of work
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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Special Report: The path to business agility
Posted by Kenny MacIver & James Lawrence | Mon 17 Oct 2011
How the growing need for business agility and flexibility is driving CIOs deep into the cloud. ...Read more
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Talking… transformation:
With Siemens CIO Dr. Norbert Kleinjohann
Posted by Rudolph Attlfellner | Mon 17 Oct 2011
Two technology industry thought-leaders — Dr. Norbert Kleinjohann, CIO of electronics and electrical engineering giant Siemens, and Rolf Schwirz, CEO of Fujitsu Technology Solutions — recently weigh up some of the key challenges of business transformation. ...Read more
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The benefits of “corporate lifelogging”
Posted by Gordon Bell | Mon 17 Oct 2011
Organizations will soon be able to benefit from recording (and easily recalling) absolutely everything, argues Microsoft's Gordon Bell. ...Read more
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The right to be forgotten
Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 3 Oct 2011
Tougher EU regulation restricting organizations’ retention of personal data means CIOs will have to closely re-examine their records management policies. ...Read more
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Should CIOs actively market IT to the rest of the business? Part 2
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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Should CIOs actively market IT to the rest of the business? Part 1
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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Making the whole business Lean
Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 5 Sep 2011
IT management and leading a Lean program are natural bedfellows, believes Clifford Burroughs, group IS and Lean director at multinational snack foods maker United Biscuits. ...Read more
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In CIOs we trust?
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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This Way Up: Nikolaos Costaras, CIO, WIND Hellas
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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Essential reading for CIOs
Posted by James Lawrence & Kenny MacIver | Mon 25 Jul 2011
Latest must-read books: on Google, social media and how to be a stellar CIO. ...Read more
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Facebook gets down to business
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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China: The CIO challenge
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jul 2011
Global organizations expanding into China are riding on an unprecedented wave of growth in a country that throws up a unique set of IT challenges. In this Special Report, we examine how CIOs from a wide range of major multinationals are meeting those challenges and powering expansion in the world’s most dynamic economy. ...Read more
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The changing shape of the corporate data center
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jul 2011
After years of unbridled growth and technological upheaval, data centers are showing new levels of maturity and efficiency. From consolidation to virtualization to cloud, our in-depth report examines where the future lies. ...Read more
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Optimizing the corporate data center
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jul 2011
Ashley Davis, head of global data center strategy at financial services company JPMorgan Chase, discusses consolidation, cloud and sustainability. ...Read more
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Storms in the cloud
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Jul 2011
Recent high-profile outages highlight the need for stronger SLAs in cloud contracts. ...Read more
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Moving fast, breaking things: Facebook’s innovation culture
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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The master switch: How IT is changing human behavior
Posted by Peter Hinssen | Mon 27 Jun 2011
Always-on, ubiquitous digital technology is changing consumer behavior — with huge consequences for CIOs, says Peter Hinssen. ...Read more
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Does early CIO intervention determine the success of an M&A? Part 2
Posted by Jack Noble | Mon 20 Jun 2011
Jack Noble, EVP and head of global services at Fujitsu’s Global Business Group, argues that CIOs should be involved right from the beginning of any M&A negotiation. ...Read more
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Does early CIO intervention determine the success of an M&A? Part 1
Posted by Hugo Sarrazin | Mon 13 Jun 2011
With M&A activity rising fast, management teams are looking to improve their ability to assess and integrate target organizations. Hugo Sarrazin, a director at McKinsey's Silicon Valley office, argues that the further upstream a CIO is involved, the more value can be added. ...Read more
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This Way Up: Fernanda Torquati, global CIO, Telefónica
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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The challenges of cloud adoption
Posted by Dr. Joseph Reger | Thu 2 Jun 2011
Dr. Joseph Reger, CTO of Fujitsu CEMEA & India, analyzes the privacy, legal and security issues that organizations face as they seek to maximize the exciting business opportunities presented by cloud. ...Read more
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Integrating IT with the global business
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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Essential reading for CIOs
Posted by James Lawrence & Kenny MacIver | Thu 28 Apr 2011
Expert views on the power of IT to transform business: two must-reads for IT executives. ...Read more
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Profile: Vivek Kundra, US Government CIO
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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The pain of mobile platform proliferation
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Apr 2011
Conflicting mobile environments are creating an apps support headache for CIOs — with no end in sight. ...Read more
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Lessons from cloud’s early adopters
Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Mon 18 Apr 2011
As enterprises prepare for the large-scale adoption of cloud services, they’re examining the results of their early experiences with the model. These case studies highlight what four organizations have learned so far. ...Read more
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Special Report: The power of open innovation
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Apr 2011
Innovation in large enterprises has never been more important — and IT-driven collaboration models are enabling a new dynamism in the way products, services and processes are created. ...Read more
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Motivating employees with smart IT
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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How the developing world will change global business thinking
Posted by Rohit Talwar | Mon 4 Apr 2011
The developing world’s continued rise will have an even bigger impact on your business than you may realize, argues leading futurist Rohit Talwar. ...Read more
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Essential reading for CIOs
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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Don Tapscott: Why corporate responsibility is a vital ingredient of business success
Posted by Don Tapscott | Mon 7 Mar 2011
Hard-wiring integrity into your business is essential for maintaining competitive edge, says leading business thinker Don Tapscott. ...Read more
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Can the promise of cloud computing live up to the hype? Part 2
Posted by JP Rangaswami | Mon 28 Feb 2011
Two IT leaders assess how much of the cloud model is realizable today and how much is illusion and wordplay. Here, JP Rangaswami, chief scientist at Salesforce.com — and a former CIO and IT trailblazer at telco BT and investment bank DrKW — argues that cloud represents a global inflection point for enterprise IT. ...Read more
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Can the promise of cloud computing live up to the hype? Part 1
Posted by Ian Cohen | Mon 21 Feb 2011
Two IT leaders assess how much of the cloud model is realizable today and how much is illusion and wordplay. First, Ian Cohen, CIO at Jardine Lloyd Thompson, argues that IT execs should ignore the hype and ask what cloud computing can do for their businesses. ...Read more
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Brian Franz, CIO, Diageo: Seizing the mobile Internet opportunity
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 14 Feb 2011
As smart mobile devices become ubiquitous, drinks giant Diageo is crafting functionally rich apps for both employees and consumers. ...Read more
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The CEO agenda for 2011… and what the CIO needs to do about it
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Fri 4 Feb 2011
“With the increased reliance on IT from business leaders, it’s important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications they may have on IT,” says research group Gartner. ...Read more
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Corporate social responsibility and the role of IT
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 24 Jan 2011
In a new age of corporate responsibility, smart organizations understand that creating sustainable business models and giving back to the societies they operate in needs to be a key pillar of their strategy. And IT has a major role to play in this by supporting greener, more open and more accountable operations. ...Read more
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The rise of “big data”
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 24 Jan 2011
Data volumes are about to go through an unprecedented growth spurt. And that will put even more pressure on CIOs to ensure they can maximize the business value of that burgeoning resource. ...Read more
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Securing the cloud
Posted by Darren Ratcliffe & Peter Shillito | Wed 19 Jan 2011
The cloud focuses attention on security, say Fujitsu’s Darren Ratcliffe and Peter Shillito ...Read more
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Who owns the wisdom of crowds?
Posted by Jonathan Smith | Mon 10 Jan 2011
When an organisation uses crowdsourcing to solve a problem, it needs to be sure it has the rights to exploit the resulting ideas ...Read more
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The road ahead for IT
Posted by Marc Silvester | Mon 20 Dec 2010
As Fujitsu celebrates its 75th anniversary, Marc Silvester, SVP and global CTO, makes key predictions for the future of enterprise IT ...Read more
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Will Generation Y’s attitudes be changed by workplace policies – or vice versa? Part 1
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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Let social technology drive bottom-up innovation, says Web 2.0 thought-leader Josh Bernoff
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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The art of the deal
Posted by Jose Carlos Eiras | Mon 15 Nov 2010
Most CIOs are not great negotiators, says José Carlos Eiras. The former CIO and lauded strategist offers a playbook to ensure IT contracts fulfil strategic objectives ...Read more
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Government as a service
Posted by Andrew Donoghue | Tue 2 Nov 2010
Pushing public services into the cloud has become an increasingly attractive option to many of the world’s cash-strapped governments – but security is still a major concern ...Read more
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CIOs who tweet
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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The new deal
Posted by Jessica Twentyman | Tue 19 Oct 2010
The nature of IT contracts is changing fast, driven by a lower appetite for upfront investment and a structural shift to cloud services. We examine how CIOs are responding to this new environment ...Read more
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Mass market mobility
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Tue 19 Oct 2010
Mobile apps are revolutionising the way organisations engage with their customers. And that presents CIOs with game-changing opportunities – and industry-toppling threats. In this Special Report we examine how leading organisations are responding ...Read more
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Creating a next-generation social media policy
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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Are the best CIOs from non-tech backgrounds? Part 2
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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The DNA of a female CIO
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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Are the best CIOs from non-tech backgrounds? Part 1
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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Essential reading for CIOs
Posted by Kenny MacIver & James Lawrence | Mon 16 Aug 2010
Two of the latest must-reads for CIOs: a global CIO masterclass and the alchemy of innovation ...Read more
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The European Union's 2020 vision
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 2 Aug 2010
After unveiling the EU's digital strategy for the next 10 years, the new European Commissioner for ICT, Neelie Kroes, issued a stark warning. "Without proper use of ICT over the next decade, Europe will become a broken economy," she said. ...Read more
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The new shape of innovation
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 19 Jul 2010
Multinational 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… ...Read more
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The shifting sands of security
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 19 Jul 2010
Technologies such as virtualisation, cloud-based services and social networking are changing the way enterprise IT is used and delivered. In this series of downloads, we examine how this is forcing a radical rethink of security strategy ...Read more
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A question of gender
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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The race for m-banking
Posted by Alan Edwards | Mon 12 Jul 2010
Banks need to move their mobile strategies up a gear, says Fujitsu's Alan Edwards ...Read more
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This Way Up: Aviva's Toby Redshaw
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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When clouds disappear
Posted by Clive Davies | Mon 21 Jun 2010
Losing data in the cloud is a nightmare scenario for CIOs, so check out your provider carefully, says Clive Davies, senior counsel with Fujitsu in the UK ...Read more
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Crime as a service
Posted by | Mon 14 Jun 2010
Cyber-criminals are bringing together their specialist skills through online collaboration hubs where they can sell their services to each other to create an entire criminal ecosystem ...Read more
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Wider roles for CIOs
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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The path to cloud
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Fri 4 Jun 2010
Cloud computing presents a compelling opportunity for the delivery of IT as a highly efficient, dynamic service. But the market - at this immature stage - is marked by hype and confusion. So how should companies stage their strategic journey to the cloud? ...Read more
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Social call: Contact centres go Web 2.0
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 31 May 2010
For the past two years, social media monitoring tools have enabled organisations to track discussions of their brand and select keywords online - on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and elsewhere. Now they want to inject themselves into those customer conversations by blending social media and contact centre tools. ...Read more
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Essential reading for CIOs
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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Removing IT from the boardroom agenda
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 17 May 2010
“For 10 years the industry has tried to get IT on the boardroom agenda. Now removing IT from the boardroom agenda is the goal all organisations should strive to attain,” says Tod Nielsen, COO of VMware. ...Read more
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"Cloud liberates you from a dead paradigm," says Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff
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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The consumerisation of IT
Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 22 Apr 2010
As technology in the home increases in sophistication, CIOs are under growing pressure to ensure the enterprise keeps pace. In this series of downloads, we examine the significant impact this major trend is having on corporate IT strategy and how IT chiefs are responding to it ...Read more
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Beyond the role of CIO
Posted by Kevin White | Thu 22 Apr 2010
An increasing number of CIOs are being handed wider business roles. Our in-depth report examines what mix of skills and experience is inspiring that vote of confidence ...Read more
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Free data for all?
Posted by James Lawrence | Thu 22 Apr 2010
The US and UK governments have been leading the world in the field of open data - but should private enterprise now follow suit? Tim Berners-Lee certainly believes so ...Read more
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CIOs who blog - update
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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Shared vision for applications outsourcing
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 14 Apr 2010
A team at London Business School has been examining the differing perceptions and measures of success held by business, finance and IT executives in applications outsourcing initiatives ...Read more
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CIOs who tweet
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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Into the breach
Posted by Stewart Room | Mon 22 Mar 2010
CIOs need to be acutely aware of the legal obligations they face in different parts of the world when their IT systems or data are compromised. Stewart Room of Field Fisher Waterhouse offers a path through the global disclosure minefield ...Read more
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Make or break: Why M&As need CIO involvement
Posted by Hüseyin Tanriverdi | Mon 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 ...Read more
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Governments buy into apps stores
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 8 Feb 2010
State CIOs around the world are following Apple and Salesforce.com and becoming increasingly sold on the idea of cloud portals ...Read more
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How should CIOs support the business use of social media? Part 2
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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How should CIOs support the business use of social media? Part 1
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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"Europe must open its digital borders," says European commissioner Viviane Reding
Posted by James Lawrence | Mon 18 Jan 2010
For the past five years, EU commissioner Viviane Reding - the most powerful person in European ICT - has pursued the vision of a single digital market for Europe. In our exclusive interview, she explains what that means for global CIOs ...Read more
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Mastering M&A
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 18 Jan 2010
Business leaders rarely give due consideration to the IT component in any merger, acquisition or spin-off. But as most CIOs know to their cost, that can determine the whole business outcome ...Read more
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Outsourcing 3.0
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 18 Jan 2010
Our latest Special Report examines how new sourcing models - from the cloud to outcome-based agreements - are transforming the landscape of IT service delivery ...Read more
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Adding financial muscle to IT
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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Governing risk: On board IT
Posted by Blaize Horner Reich | Mon 7 Dec 2009
When it comes to IT governance, board members often neglect their responsibilities, argues Dr Blaize Horner Reich ...Read more
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21st Century Free
Posted by Chris Anderson | Mon 30 Nov 2009
Chris Anderson, author of the acclaimed bestseller The Long Tail, predicts a time when, thanks to the digital economy, the default price of everything will be zero ...Read more
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Should CIOs blog publicly? Part 2
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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The US government's IT dashboard
Posted by Kenny MacIver | Mon 5 Oct 2009
Vivek Kundra, appointed by Barack Obama as the US government's first CIO, has launched an online dashboard that candidly exposes the current spending and schedule metrics of the 800 major projects that make up the bulk of the federal government’s $76 billion annual IT spend. ...Read more
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Should CIOs blog publicly?
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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CIOs who blog
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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Reid Hoffman: Zero degrees of separation
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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De-risking IT
Posted by Kevin White | Wed 30 Sep 2009
Technology projects have a far from perfect record for delivering value to the business. But CIOs are taking this problem in hand, with initiatives designed to eliminate failure and maximise benefits ...Read more
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The efficiency imperative
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Wed 30 Sep 2009
Economic and environmental pressures have put IT at the centre of the business efficiency drive - and convinced CIOs to target wasteful energy burn-rates. Our special report examines how the twin goals of cost cutting and a lower carbon footprint can be achieved. ...Read more
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Lean lessons from Japan
Posted by Jeffrey Liker | Mon 31 Aug 2009
You think lean and IT make uncomfortable bedfellows? Not at Toyota, argues Dr Jeffrey Liker, a world authority on the creator of lean - although it's only seen as one of many means of driving efficiency ...Read more
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Essential reading for CIOs
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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Lean: Doing more with less
Posted by Kevin White & Charlotte Moore | Wed 1 Jul 2009
As the global recession continues to bite, every organisation is searching for ways to improve efficiencies and increase agility. Is lean the answer to the CIO's recession-busting pressures, or just a euphemism for "slashing the budget"? ...Read more
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Special Report: The CIO dream team
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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Book review: What Would Google Do?
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 18 May 2009
For a company only born a decade ago that has changed the face of the internet and has a market cap of $96.5 billion, it’s not unreasonable to ask: “What would Google do?” Jeff Jarvis tries to answer the question ...Read more
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Creative destruction
Posted by Richard Foster | Mon 11 May 2009
The recession will spell the end for some corporate dinosaurs but, as US history shows us, this natural selection can pave the way for a new breed of innovators, argues Richard Foster ...Read more
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Windows 7, Vista or XP?
Posted by Rachel Ebrey | Tue 5 May 2009
When it comes to operating systems, should it be out with the old and in with the new? Fujitsu's CTO Marc Silvester offers his expert advice ...Read more
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Dr Doom: “It’s revolution or war”
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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Special Report: Cloud computing
Posted by i-cio.com staff | Mon 30 Mar 2009
An in-depth investigation into the benefits of cloud computing: should your company be adopting it? What are the merits? And what are the pitfalls you should be aware of? ...Read more
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Technology investment key to recession survival
Posted by Jessica Twentyman & Andrew Donoghue | Mon 30 Mar 2009
Smart companies recognise that IT isn’t an overhead – it could also be key to dragging their business back into the black. Investment in innovation is just as important to boosting financial performance as cutting overheads ...Read more
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