Articles By Mark Chillingworth at CIO UK

Listen and learn, listen and lead

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:27:58 GMT

It's nice to know you are not alone sometimes. The CIO of a major NHS hospital recently told me one of his leadership peers described his and every leadership role as being lonely. In my own experience, there is always that nagging doubt that I'm falling behind the times, or increasingly, that...

The real strength of consumerisation is that it simplifies working lives

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:57:37 GMT

Keep it simple, stupid - KISS - was a mantra hammered into me in my early days as a news and sports reporter. It's one that has served me well.Simplification can be a double-edged sword. Listen to the arguments of UKIP's politicians and fear grips you that people may actually believe their...

Adapt or die

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:53:53 GMT

A 20-year-old entering the workforce or becoming a customer of your organisation is unlikely to have heard of Y2K. Yet I suspect for almost all of us, it was a significant chapter in our working lives.At seven, as my daughter is now, century date change issues in enterprise computing systems are...

Boardroom engagement for CIOs

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:51:00 GMT

You are invited to report on IT at meeting of the board. You systematically work your way through the list of items you want to bring to the senior management team�??s attention. The last of which is the two-day website outage that took place the previous weekend.

The Cooperative Group CIO Andy Haywood interview key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:48:00 GMT

Andy Haywood's diversity challenge as the Co-op Group CIO

Steve Connor, Carillion CIO, the key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:37:00 GMT

Carillion is a relatively new name for a company that has been part of the construction and support services industry in some shape or form for over a century.

The CIO portfolio will be as diverse as society

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:00:38 GMT

It is widely accepted that although difficult at times, the diversity in UK society has been beneficial to this country. Based on CIO round table events and a slew of recent interviews, it looks as if the enterprise application landscape is about to go through a diversity transformation akin to...

Jaguar Land Rover CIO Jeremy Vincent interview, the key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:13:00 GMT

The big cat bites back

Write once, exploit anywhere

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:05:28 GMT

Is Java safe for enterprises or for individual users? A question that has been the topic of the month since the most recent widely publicised zero-day vulnerabilities and associated exploits in Oracle's Java distribution. Not a question though, that has a straightforward answer.Java was...

Andy Haywood's diversity challenge as the Co-op Group CIO

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:39:00 GMT

From food and finance to farming and funerals, the Co-operative Group touches all parts of our lives. Andy Haywood�??s IT strategy is to bring all these strands together as one

CIO Jeremy Vincent hunts down an exciting future at Jaguar Land Rover

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:45:00 GMT

A difficult past isn�??t stopping Jaguar Land Rover and its CIO Jeremy Vincent from hunting down an exciting future

Visa Europe's CIO Steve Chambers plays his next card

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:53:00 GMT

Its new payment processing platform is live, but the pace of change at an increasingly technology-led Visa Europe shows no sign of letting up, says its CIO Steve Chambers

Philip Langsgale's legacy

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:45:04 GMT

It is a sad start to 2013 with the sudden loss of Department for Work and Pensions CIO Philip Langsdale in late December 2012. Aged just 56 Langsdale was one of the UK's leading CIOs in a career that included a successful tenure at BAA. Colleagues from the BCS, of which he was a Fellow, and his...

LV= CIO Richard Warner the key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:46:00 GMT

Insurance firm's CIO shares his title with his IT department

Unilever CIO Willem Eelman, the key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:28:00 GMT

Willem Eelman is repackaging IT to meet business and ecological needs

AstraZeneca's CIO Jon Kirby, the key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:08:00 GMT

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has had a difficult recent history and like many businesses it faces some tough challenges in the near future. Jon Kirby, CIO at the Anglo-Swedish organisation, is part of a new leadership team facing up to those challenges.

Sustainable CIO stories

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:55:34 GMT

Just today the Office for National Statistics said steep energy bills in December 2012 kept UK inflation high. Well if household energy bills are high, even a humble editor knows it's the same story for business. Rising energy bills has kept the annual cost of living high in the UK, and that...

The Results-Oriented CIO

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:46:00 GMT

Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese academic who advanced the notion of quality in part based on the work of the renowned US quality consultant W Edwards Denning. He graphically depicted cause and effects in what many may remember as the fishbone diagram.

What 2012 really meant to CIOs

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:29:21 GMT

I could write about 2012 as a year of extreme highs and lows, or be downcast and look back at the challenges and expect those difficulties to a sign of things to come. But what did 2012 really signify? Reflecting on 2012 is in fact a chance to see that the big picture is markedly different from...

AstraZeneca's CIO Jon Kirby buys into technology

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:46:00 GMT

Jon Kirby moved from procurement chief to CIO at pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. He outlines the prescription the new management team has drawn up for the company

Port of Rotterdam CIO Lourens Visser interview, the key quotes

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:35:00 GMT

CIO Lourens Visser keeps Port of Rotterdam's systems ship-shape

2013, its life Jim but not as we know it�?�.

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:17:00 GMT

So another year draws to a close and a new one begins. I know I say this every year but where did 2012 go?

2012, the Editor in Chief's year

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:59:21 GMT

Four distinct chapters occurred for me this momentous year. And it wasn't just amomentousyear because of Jubilees or sport, this was a big year for CIO UK.Early 2012 was dominated at CIO UK by the creation of a totally new CIO100. I had never been happy with the previous incarnation, it jarred...

Innovating on the fly

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:34:30 GMT

One of the pleasures of being involved in the CIO community is seeing alternative thinking at work as organisations use technology to challenge their organisations and marketplaces. Innovation is a word used widely in this title and the CIO world and as many of you have expressed, innovation...

The world of 2017, according to Mike Lynch

mark_chillingworth@idg.co.uk (Mark Chillingworth) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:35:00 GMT

The urge to make predictions is inevitable at this time of year but I am going out on a limb - rather than make a forecast for next year, I am going to look even deeper into my crystal ball and make some suggestions for what we might consider to be standard technology in five years�?? time.