Articles By Mark Chillingworth at CIO UK

CIOs gain budget as strategic role increases global survey reveals

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Mobile technology is increasing CIO?s IT budgets and driving recruitment as CEOs look for growth and demand CIOs deliver it, the 2012 CIO Survey from Harvey Nash reveals.

CEOs demand CIO prepare for growth and mobility

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

Mobility puts budgets back in the CIOs hands, the Harvey Nash CIO Survey 2012 finds

Women CIOs massively under represented

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT

IT lacks a woman?s touch

Mayors could lead local transformation

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:25:05 GMT

Many parts of the UK go to the polls today to vote on councillors, who will be mayor of London and whether cities across the country will follow London and opt for a mayor. Coventry, Liverpool and Salford are just some of the cities considering their mayoral future.I hope the cities considering...

Building on infrastructure

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:10:02 GMT

CIOs and organisations are on the lookout for infrastructure experts, according to Kevin Sealy at recruitment experts Korn/Ferry. Sealey and colleague Bob Concannon have been studying the trend and Sealy and I discussed it recently. Their argument (see here) that there is a new appetite...

Unlock code and benefits can follow

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — 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.

CIO Profile: P&G's Dave Ubachs on providing global solutions

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:10:00 GMT

Ubachs and his CIO peers across the P&G empire got there through a corporate-wide understanding that CIOs needed to be central to the challenges the organisation faces

Roche eyes Illumina for DNA analysis in �3.6bn bid

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:35:00 GMT

Roche has made a $5.7 billion (�3.6 billion) hostile bid for Illumina, with DNA analysis systems as a key focus.

English, Welsh Police investigate �3.5bn shared services deal

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:45:00 GMT

A transformation services framework agreement, worth up to �3.5 billion in total and including IT, is being offered to police forces across the England and Wales.

Government to announce G-Cloud supplier shortlist

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:51:00 GMT

The government is set to announce the suppliers shortlisted for its G-Cloud frameworks for cloud computing, and is looking for technology standards to apply to Whitehall systems.

Four IT trends for 2012

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:26:00 GMT

The CIO of 2012 faces a quartet of challenging changes based about anticipating colleagues? behavioural needs and providing fast, accurate business information

Welfare to Work programme hit by IT delays

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:28:00 GMT

System rollout problems affect tracking of scheme participants