Articles By Richard Plant at CIO UK

Adapt or die

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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...

The Cooperative Group CIO Andy Haywood interview key quotes

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:13:00 GMT

The big cat bites back

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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:46:00 GMT

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

Eurostar's CIO Christophe Lemaire is focused on tunnel vision

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:23:00 GMT

Cross-border rail services will revolutionise European travel, and for Eurostar to remain competitive requires a technology strategy as quick and agile as its rolling stock

CIOs focus their budgets on transformation and collaboration

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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 that disrupt deliver business savings

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:34:15 GMT

Disruption is something often talked of as happening to organisations and CIOs and usually it is technology from outside the enterprise causing that disruption.But that needn't be the case, as the October lead CIO profile story depicts.Growing a new business environment at UnileverDisruption...

British sport has transformed, technology will lead business transformation

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:20:50 GMT

There has been no better year than 2012 to witness and be inspired by sporting achievement. From Chelsea's daring win of the Champions League, eight different winners in the first eight Grand Prix of this season; and of course the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.Read my interview with Gerry...

Channel 4 turns 30 but stays technologically tuned in, says its CIO

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:16:00 GMT

Cloud computing, Hadoop data management, mobile devices and improving broadband access are converging as the challenges and opportunities for CIOs.

RBS names Scott Marcar as CIO, Markets

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:05:00 GMT

Scott Marcar will focus on IT rationalisation at the bank

CIO Profile: Steve Connor builds solid foundations at Carillion

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:52:00 GMT

Even as it diversifies into energy and other new markets, construction is still at the core of Carillion�??s operations. Steve Connor has built up its IT portfolio since the 1999 divestment

CIO Profile: Growing a new business environment at Unilever

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:12:00 GMT

Schooled in the finance function, Willem Eelman has been given the task of bringing IT and the business closer to further boost growth at consumer goods giant Unilever

News International CIO update

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:12:00 GMT

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

Mining the gold seam of structured data

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Many companies are missing a trick by not further developing and utilising their structured business information assets, says Andrew Buss, Service Director, Freeform Dynamics

Data Entry and Device Control

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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...

Healthy sharing puts Kent NHS IT in the lead

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:52:00 GMT

A new wave of government business technology leader is actively creating streamlined public sector services.

Be flexible now to retain talent

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:49:51 GMT

Flexible working is sold or depicted as essential to CIOs and organisations if they want to attract and harness the talent of the next generation of workforce. Dubbed Generation Y they have attracted an almost mythical status, as if they're dexterity with Facebook will drive up revenue, or...

License to share �?? government CIO calls time on cloud blockers

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:48:00 GMT

Since the last decade debate about public sector technology and provision has regularly featured the term shared services.

A more intelligent approach to security

richard_plant@cio.co.uk (Richard Plant) — 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...