Articles By CEB at CIO UK

Clouds of vapour

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:01:00 GMT

According to Wikipedia, a polemic is a contentious argument that is intended to establish the truth of a specific belief and the falsity of the contrary belief. I am sufficiently concerned about certain current aspects of the business development of the cloud to polemicise on the matter.

Boardroom engagement for CIOs

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — 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.

Getting everyone on the same page with cloud

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:07:00 GMT

Based on analysis from 100 companies globally, it is expected that the vast majority of IT organisations will have �?? if they haven�??t already �?? adopted SaaS-based HR and CRM solutions by the end of 2013.

Unlocking the cloud

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:19:00 GMT

The marketing message for January�??s Cloud Expo Europe 2013 at Olympia was �??Unlock the Cloud�??. I spent my first day at the Expo chairing the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) Knowledge Network Theatre, and most of the second visiting exhibitors�?? stands.

Write once, exploit anywhere

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — 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...

A New Model for fast, efficient IT

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:47:00 GMT

Three years ago, CEB identified five trends that are rapidly reshaping IT

Software testing's stars of tomorrow

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:04:00 GMT

Europe�??s annual meeting of software testers, EuroSTAR, revealed a raft of startup companies riding the wave of change in an industry undergoing great transformation

The Results-Oriented CIO

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — 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.

Bangladesh is promising big things from a growing small software industry

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:30:00 GMT

Bangladesh should stop comparing its ICT industry with that of its bigger neighbour. Its outsourced offerings are on a much smaller scale but are no less innovative for it

Assessing the security of the devices entering the CIO's domain

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:35:16 GMT

There appears to be room for a "big three" at the top of the smartphone tree at the moment.The operating systems that appear to have solidified their dominance, at least in the consumer marketplace are Apple's iOS and Google's Android, leaving Microsoft and Research in Motion slugging it out for...

Being a key element of cultural transformation

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:44:00 GMT

One of the symptoms of the digital economy is that the small group of early technology adopters is growing rapidly.

European Commission strategy to address cloud concerns

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:38:00 GMT

SMEs are adopting cloud solutions with great success, but large-scale delivery is being held up by concerns over standards and security. The EC is picking up the mantle

CIOs focus their budgets on transformation and collaboration

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:47:00 GMT

The past few years have seen surprisingly healthy increases in IT spending, but the outlook for 2013 is more modest.

CIOs are reaching the Summit

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:19:00 GMT

CIOs have found their place in the organisation which enables them to do good work regardless of whether they have a key to the executive washroom.

Redefining BYOD

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:38:47 GMT

More companies are seeing the benefits of allowing their employees to bring personally owned devices into the workplace and onto the corporate network. The familiarity of having your own smartphone for work means that you can work faster and, perhaps cynically from the employer's perspective,...

RBS names Scott Marcar as CIO, Markets

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:05:00 GMT

Scott Marcar will focus on IT rationalisation at the bank

News International CIO update

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:12:00 GMT

Media giant's interim IT leader made permanent in the role

Police analytics may get a boost from commissioners

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:28:00 GMT

UK police use of IT to analyse crime has been sketchy at best, but with the appointment of elected commissioners next month, that may change.

The power and pitfalls of patronage

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:53:44 GMT

The news of a prominent CIO's promotion to the group headquarters in the US has got me thinking about the power of patronage. My sources tell me this CIO is in the process of selecting which of his entourage will follow him across the water. Already at this CIO's previous workplace, senior staff...

Over a third of new senior execs already thinking of jumping ship

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:17:00 GMT

Huge difference between how jobs are described in recruitment phase and what they turn out to be

It is at the user-end where the rubber hits the road

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:33:00 GMT

Vendors should cut back on investment in aggressive marketing, and invest instead in listener/learners who can capture the richness of customer experience with the vendor�??s product or service, and put that learning to work

VW Group rationalises desktop systems

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:28:00 GMT

Desktop apps reduced by a third

Next big things now

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:40:00 GMT

BYOD, big data, the Internet of Things and intelligent security are all ushering in major change to how we interact with technology and what it can do for us

Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment completes transformation

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:54:00 GMT

Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has spent £1.5m revamping its digital recruitment offering to react to changing candidate behaviour and the move to mobile job-searching

Five faces of transformation

feedback@cio.co.uk (CEB) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:51:00 GMT

Being transformational is easier said than done. Ade McCormack give some advice on the practicalities of metamorphosis