When Andy Haywood says he is extremely busy, it is probably not an exaggeration. Eight months after joining the Co-operative Business Group (CBG) as group chief information officer (CIO), he is leading a full-scale IT transformation ...
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Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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By Martin Sykes, A. Nicklas Malik and Mark D. West Anyone who has a business role to play in influencing others, needs to make their presentation stand out from the crowd and this extract from Stories That Move Mountains, published by ...
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U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years. Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to ...
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Said Akar, District Manager, EMC, declared a ‘business war cry’ at today’s EMC Day 2012 event, urging enterprises to prepare for the exponential growth of big data. “Big data will transform IT. Never has IT ...
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Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own ...
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The government must integrate the various strands of its IT strategy to realise cost savings, Amyas Morse, comptroller and auditor general at the National Audit Office (NAO), has warned. Speaking at Intellect’s World-Class Public ...
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Xylem Inc. announced the appointment of Nicholas R. Colisto as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective December 19, 2012. He will report directly to Gretchen McClain, President and Chief Executive Officer of ...
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Ramzi Rahal, Director of IT, Daman Red Hat today announced that Daman, the UAE’s first specialised national health insurance company, has migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform. The move intends to significantly ...
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The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has stuck with old ways of working and will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services contract. DCLG has been given the go-ahead to refresh its IT ...
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Halcyon Software,the global leader in multiplatform systems management software,has announced the formation of a strategic partnership with pheron technologies group,the leading provider of business service management solutions to the ...
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Pennsylvania-based Erie Indemnity (ERIE) has appointed Robert Ingram III as its new executive vice president and chief information officer (CIO), effective from 13 August 2012. Ingram, in his new role will oversee the ongoing design of ...
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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has purchased maxIT Healthcare Holdings, a provider of healthcare IT services and solutions to commercial hospital groups and other medical delivery organizations. The services ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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There's going to be a battle in overcoming resistance to the government's Open Standards Principles for IT,according to an advisor to the Cabinet Office. Launched at the start of November,the standards are designed to make government IT ...
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