Articles By Neil Ward-Dutton at CIO UK

Write once, exploit anywhere

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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...

How IT will drive the people agenda

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:12:00 GMT

CIOs are no stranger to the HR department. In the past three years alone, some 70 per cent of HR functions say they have increased their use of mobile or web platforms and nearly half say they now use cloud services within their core operations.

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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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...

Eating the data elephant

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:11:00 GMT

The problem facing CIOs is not how to gather data, but how to turn existing data into meaningful business decisions

Redefining BYOD

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:05:00 GMT

Scott Marcar will focus on IT rationalisation at the bank

News International CIO update

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:28:00 GMT

Desktop apps reduced by a third

Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment completes transformation

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

Bid TV retailer signs £10m outsourcing deal with Getronics

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:19:00 GMT

Auction broadcaster migrates core systems off-site

The Buck stops where?

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:33:16 GMT

Should software vendors be liable for vulnerabilities in the products they sell? Are they already liable to some degree, or would new legislation be required in order to make it so? These are interesting questions, sure to provoke strong opinions on both sides of the fence.In almost every case,...

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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — 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

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:17:00 GMT

Long-term partnership deal signed with IO

Angels & Demons: The CISO & the CIO

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:58:18 GMT

While the importance of the Chief Information Security Officer has been in constant growth over the past six years, organisations that employ a CISO are still far too few. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers annual Global State of Information Security (GSISS) survey in 2006, the percentage of...

Five steps to creating a mobile payment strategy

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:13:00 GMT

Mobile computing is here to stay, but Bryan Cruickshank and David Sayer at KPMG in the UK think CIOs need a little help in creating channels to that market for their businesses

3 tips on improving procurement systems

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:23:00 GMT

Because it resides on the edge of business activity, CIOs often look potential for improvement in procurement systsm, say Bryan Cruickshank and Richard Nixon of KPMG UK

Remember Alan Turing when we consider today's young genius

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:01:00 GMT

A visit to an exhibition devoted to the father of modern computing has caused another British visionary to warn against the narrow-mindedness that hastened Turing's end

Four must-do social media activities for CIOs

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:30:00 GMT

Many companies are starting to take social media seriously as a business tool, say Bryan Cruickshank and Mark Guinibert at KPMG, who list some of the things you have to watch out for, if you are going to so the same

The customer that tech forgot

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:20:00 GMT

Amid the noise of buzzword-heavy marketing messages, a product?s benefits to the end user can be overlooked. It?s time everyone followed Apple?s user-focused lead

Four tips on talking to the Board

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:44:00 GMT

Too often, CIOs are only seen by their peers as an operational cog. Bryan Cruickshank and Lisa Heneghan suggest that to get your feet under the table, you have to speak the lingo

NATS pilots desktop virtualisation to 10 per cent of staff

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:41:00 GMT

Air traffic control business to free up access to core applications

Real-time delays

neilwd@mwdadvisors.com (Neil Ward-Dutton) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:19:00 GMT

Technology can deliver real-time information across all�kinds of platforms and devices, but our inability to�act�on this data remains the barrier to its success