Articles By Martin Veitch at CIO UK

Atos enters final testing phase for London 2012 Olympic Games

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:36:00 GMT

The last checks before showtime

BAA's Philip Langsdale to become DWP CIO

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:35:00 GMT

Langsdale fills Joe Harley's shoes

CIO Profile: Nationwide's Tony Prestedge on why he has no CIO

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:48:00 GMT

For Nationwide Building Society COO Tony Prestedge, IT is just another function of the operations department.

CIO Profile: Nationwide's Tony Prestedge on transformational technology

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:31:00 GMT

Planning a core tech revamp took years, explains the building society's COO, because it won't be done again for decades

CIO Profile: Nationwide's Tony Prestedge on transformation

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:19:00 GMT

Customer ownership makes driving and communicating strategic change easier for Nationwide Building Society?s chief operating officer Tony Prestedge

Who are your key staff?

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:03:44 GMT

I just came across this interesting article on the BBC about identifying essential workers. Its focus is on the rising tendency for certain groups of workers to go on strike, but the thought processes can easily be applied to any workforce. As managers, CIOs often need to consider who within...

Marussia F1's fast ERP

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:29:00 GMT

Pics: CIO UK and Marussia F1 Precision engineered racing Marussia F1 is competing in this year's Formula 1 Grand Prix championship. A team of 180 people are dedicated to two cars and drivers for each race. Their aim is a podium position by 2014. They are supported by state-of-the-art technology...

WPP and Infosys launch digital marketing platform

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:05:00 GMT

An effort to bridge the divide between technologists and marketers

Vodafone offers �1.04bn for CWW

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:20:00 GMT

Shareholders will get big premium

Public Service Network highlights the communication problem

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:38:45 GMT

This week I attended a roundtable event at the House of Commons, hosted by communications specialist Level 3 and sponsored by Alun Michael MP. Michael is a former cabinet minister, who chairs the Parliamentary Information Technology Forum. He is a no-nonsense sort of fellow and the sort of...

Unlock code and benefits can follow

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:02:39 GMT

There can be nothing worse for an organisation or CIO to be told that at Euro20 million project could have been done for Euro20 milion, but this is a real example shared with me earlier this week by the Software Improvement Group (SIG).With technology ubiquitous and senior management and...

CIO Profile: Vodafone's Albert Hitchcock on global IT

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:32:00 GMT

Albert Hitchcock has led a worldwide standardisation programme for Vodafone that will drive down operating costs, improve customer experience and lower energy usage

CIO Profile: Vodafone's Albert Hitchcock on new procurement models

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:07:00 GMT

A federated global croporate structure with some regions growing faster economically benefits from an opex-oriented IT procurement model

Private cloud computing is just a component CIOs say

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:05:33 GMT

A recent CIO UK roundtable discussed the principals of private cloud computing in the enterprise and revealed that private cloud computing is widely seen as a component of the overall IT infrastructure CIOs are and will be operating in the near future. CIOs representing the engineering...

CIO role at no risk in information led future

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:17:48 GMT

Another month another vendor sponsored report claiming that the CIO role will disappear within five years. Considering the acronym means information technology it has never ceased to amaze me how few IT commentators focus on the information.CIO again is another acronym concerning information and...

CIO Profile: Play.com's Francesco de Marchis's technology roadmap

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:55:00 GMT

Service oriented architecture (SOA)gives Play.com IT leader Francesco de Marchis the flexibility to create a community of suppliers

CIO Profile: Play.com's Francesco de Marchis plays the global game

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:25:00 GMT

Acquisition by a Japanese online retailer has given Francesco de Marchis the means to aim for the top

100 and growing

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:00:45 GMT

In parallel with this issue we are re-launching the CIO 100 - available at www.cio.co.uk/cio100 - and it is with great pleasure I can announce that the top five CIOs in the 100. They are: Trevor Didcock of easyJet, Myron Hyrcyk of Severn Trent Water; Jane Moran at Thomson Reuters; Darrell Stein...

CIO Profile: Sander Kristel's clear vision for Staffordshire Council

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:16:00 GMT

Under CIO Sander Kristel, Staffordshire County Council already has a public service network and joined-up authorities. Could he be the Cabinet Office?s model IT leader?

7 key strengths the top 20 of the CIO 100 exhibited

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:09:00 GMT

These are the key strengths that the leading CIOs exhibited and were used as the criteria for the judgement of the CIO 100. The same strengths were used to assess the submissions by CIOs to the CIO 100.

Why transformation matters to me

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:52:44 GMT

The new CIO 100 is judged on the transformation agenda that the leading CIOs in the UK exhibit. Along with the judging panel that analysed the finalists we all felt that transformation was the most important aspect of a CIO's role in any organisation.As I've said elsewhere on the CIO and CIO 100...

The CIO 100 transforms

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:21:53 GMT

The CIO 100 for 2012 has just gone live on this title and like the CIO's in it a major transformation has taken place in the way it operates.The key word is transformation. The editorial team of CIO UK believe that organisations will need to embrace transformation of they are to have a place in...

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on the future of the CIO

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:16:00 GMT

For one of Procter & Gamble's IT heads, if the CIO isn't on the board, they cannot continue to stay relevant

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on supplier management and mergers

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:13:00 GMT

Dave Ubachs deals with the world's biggest suppliers on a global scale. For many, he is their number one customer.

Getting the business ready for the Cloud: The role of the CIO

martin_veitch@idg.co.uk (Martin Veitch) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:09:00 GMT

there is every indication that the era of cloud is only just getting started, says KPMG's Bryan Kruickshank meaning there is much more change on the way