Leading CIOs

NHS database and summary care records must be embraced

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:22:42 GMT

The British Medical Association (BMA) believes the plans by the Department of Health and the National Health Service to create a national database of patient summary care records is a serious privacy breach. Although individual privacy is important and anyone...

BBC technology is being attacked on all fronts

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:01:39 GMT

Whatever it decides to do, the BBC is accused of being wrong. On the day when CIO publishes its interview with the broadcaster's new CIO Tiffany Hall the organisation faces strike action from its outsourced supplier Siemens and just last...

We're heading into the clouds

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:35:18 GMT

If you were hit by a car last year and woke up in 1973 wearing a flower print nylon shirt, skin tight leather jacket and Cuban heels, then you may have missed the technology world becoming obsessed with clouds. Now...

CIOs should think about smart billing

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:24:21 GMT

There is a lot of pressure on individuals at present to cut down the amount of energy they use around the home. One suggestion is that we all adopt smart meters which will monitor how much each electrical device is...

Constantly improving offering (CIO)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:45:50 GMT

Like our readers we like to keep looking for ways to improve our product and make our users lives easier. For the new decade we've had the tech guys busy in the CIO back shed developing some improvements to the...

Valuation Office CIO joins up customer experience

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:28:42 GMT

Jon Wrennall, CIO at the Government's Valuation Office Agency doesn't talk about patio or tree house taxes when you talk shop with him, but he does enjoy challenging the role of IT within government. In a frank presentation at the...

As the economy gathers pace, it's time to motivate and keep a good IT team

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:47:46 GMT

A spate of headlines in the first two working days of the year suggest the worst of the credit crisis is over and that growth is returning to the manufacturing sector, retail and housing. Without wishing to be too Daily...

Merry Christmas from CIO UK

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:09:49 GMT

The CIO UK editorial team is taking a well earned break from today and would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for a knock out 2009. Although it hasn't been the easiest year for anyone thanks to...

CIO 100 2010, how we do it

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:49:57 GMT

Compiling the CIO100 is a painstaking task. How it is done and some of the problems of creating it are detailed below. CIOs often ask of the CIO 100 methodology: "It you're ranking the top 100 organisations by their IT...

New CIO 100 demonstrates state of the economy

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:57:02 GMT

It is no surprise that this year's CIO100 has witnessed more changes than any previous CIO100. The dramatic change to the world economy following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing credit crisis has affected all sectors and as...

Government CIOs discuss the future at CGIT 2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:16:09 GMT

I'm at the CGIT 2009 conference all day today and hope to bring you up to date with the issues discussed as the day goes on. This should be a really exciting day, in a previous blog post I put...

15 humorous definitions of CIO

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:56:29 GMT

Acronyms, our industry is awash with them, one of which being of course your humble job title. Officially we recognise it as being Chief Information Officer. Analysts suggest it should be changed to Chief Integration Officer, but, because today's Friday,...

BPM is the CIO route to CEO

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:31:27 GMT

The current Debate channel theme on CIO UK is business process management (BPM). A topic I was reticent to commit to, but our editorial partners MWD, are big believers in the subject. It's the an acronym that cools my interest,...

It really is rocket science, CERN tech impresses

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:10:16 GMT

Although a technology title, CIO concentrates on the business story for technology and the business people behind it, commonly known as CIOs. Although in no way experts of technology I use a lot of it to put CIO.co.uk together and...

Tory attacks on banks is a danger to the nation

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:22:49 GMT

Taking a stick to the banks is an easy win at present, especially if you are a politician who was exposed by the Daily Telegraph for profiting from the excessive expenses system MPs have been using. One such MP is...

Jenson Button and Ross Brawn's lessons for CIOs

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:13:23 GMT

I headlined the article Tomorrow the world and on Monday morning it became true, he was world champion. Back in June 1994 as a stringer for Autosport magazine I was writing profiles and sports reports of young Britain's hopeful of...

CIOs, does your department look like an IT division or business?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:33:53 GMT

Does your department look like an IT department? It is an interesting topic. Yesterday, having completed a CIO podcast discussion with John Whiting and Owen Powell, the CIO of the Arts Council we began discussing the true shape of an...

iPhone style could put cloud in your users home

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:15:59 GMT

Throughout this week Martin Veitch has been pontificating about the future of newspapers and the possibilities of an Apple tablet device being pertinent to their future. Talking of Apple and where our entertainment and information comes from, I've been spending...

If tech firms were Formula One teams

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:41:13 GMT

As the Formula One season draws to a close and Britain, yet again clenches itself for another nail biting finish where our dominant early form has been eroded and we could easily grasp defeat from the jaws of victory, we...

iPhone generation demands greater tech choice from CIOs

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:40:55 GMT

The role of the CIO as the instigator, selector and manager of technology in the organisation is being challenged from very newest and youngest members of staff within the organisation according to new research from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)....

Step forward public sector CIOs, your time has come

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:55:03 GMT

It's time for the public sector CIO to step forward. No matter who wins next year's election, CIOs in the public sector have a real opportunity to modernise public services through their knowledge and vision of how technology and change...

Fisichella saves Ferrari from poor people management grid

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:26:45 GMT

This weekend Giancarlo Fisichella lines up on the starting grid (we expect him to qualify) in a Ferrari. The Italian's journey to one of the most coveted seats in Formula One is an example of management that lacked forward planning...

September: back to school and back in action

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:57:43 GMT

There's something about September that heralds a clean start, it may because the kids are starting or going back to school. It seems that come the first week of September there is a sense of urgency and business, added to...

Major BP outsourcing deal demonstrates new CIO role

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:32:41 GMT

As you read this shares in BP are soaring high on the news that the British company has discovered a giant oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, a CIO 100 ranked company, may cash in not only from the...

Twitter is moving up the cycle of importance

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:01:43 GMT

Twitter is going through what you could call the "emergence" phase of its development, as it garners lots of attention from the mainstream media and is becoming a part of daily discourse. In my cycling obsessed (away from the office...