Articles By Giles Nelson at CIO UK

Boardroom engagement for CIOs

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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 Results-Oriented CIO

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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.

Being a key element of cultural transformation

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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.

CIOs are reaching the Summit

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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.

The art of effective collaboration

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:01:00 GMT

Collaboration has to start with people and culture. This is not to say that tools and technologies aren�??t important, but you have to start by creating the kind of environment that encourages people to work together.

RBS names Scott Marcar as CIO, Markets

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

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

In praise of local knowledge

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:04:00 GMT

CIOs from regional Britain are showing our national majors the way to invest in UK talent, encouraging startups and entrepreneurs and boosting the economy

Data Entry and Device Control

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:45:54 GMT

Time to move on from punched cards and keyboards When computers were first created, all attention was centred on getting answers to complex calculations that could not be solved directly by mathematics. Calculus was everything and getting data into the systems was achieved via the use of cards...

A more intelligent approach to security

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:38:59 GMT

At the RSA Conference 2012 in London, one of the key themes to emerge was that the traditional ways of doing security, while still mostly valid today, are being tested more than ever before. The resources, skills and scale available to hackers, nation states and criminals are resulting in vastly...

Police analytics may get a boost from commissioners

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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.

Windows 8 Perspectives - The power user and the teenager

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:14:13 GMT

Windows 8 has been criticised quite a bit in the press for some of the decisions Microsoft has made around user interface. As more and more criticism has surfaced, a negative spiral seems to have been created, and it has now become fashionable for pundits and techies to write off Windows 8 as a...

Datacentre in a box

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:35:00 GMT

CIOs have a tough job delivering an expanding range of services responding rapidly to requests, says Tony Lock, Programme Director, Freeform Dynamics, who explores the pros and cons of the concept of unified infrastructure as a possible solution

The power and pitfalls of patronage

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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 (Giles Nelson) — 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

VW Group rationalises desktop systems

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

Desktop apps reduced by a third

Social collaboration: From a faith-based to business-led approach

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:03:43 GMT

I have long been a sceptic of the 'install it and they will figure out how to use it' approach to social collaboration. While you hear the odd success story concerned with introducing Facebook or Twitter-like capability horizontally into a business environment, when you dig beneath the surface,...

Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment completes transformation

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — 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 (Giles Nelson) — 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

Bid TV retailer signs £10m outsourcing deal with Getronics

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:19:00 GMT

Auction broadcaster migrates core systems off-site

E.ON signs �?�50m ERP management deal with Capgemini

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:28:00 GMT

Operations transitioned from internal units to the service provider

Goldman Sachs to move to modular datacentre strategy

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:17:00 GMT

Long-term partnership deal signed with IO

The State of MDM

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:45:00 GMT

One definitive set of data in a company is still an uncommon occurance, says Andy Hayler, but the signs are that the situation is improving

The four-step storage strategy

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:53:00 GMT

Storage has often been a piecemeal consideration for many CIOs. Tony Lock at Freeform Dynamics suggests a more coherant process

Engineering IT for agility

feedback@cio.co.uk (Giles Nelson) — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:05:00 GMT

when reacting to change in the business, says Freeform Dynamics service director Andrew Buss,the lack of progress can be down to what IT focuses on in day-to-day operations