Computerworld-Every Monday morning,executives at Procter&Gamble's Cincinnati headquarters file into an elliptically shaped conference room known as the Business Sphere,where giant video screens wrap around curved walls displaying ...
Tags: IT operations, P&G, IT globalization, videoconference
Computerworld-The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act(ACA),which the Supreme Court found constitutional last month,requires all states to roll out health insurance exchanges where consumers can compare in one place plans based on ...
Tags: ACA, Medicaid expansion, HealthCare Connector, HIXs
Organisations must prevent women from excluding themselves from the top jobs in IT, according to Jane Moran, global chief information officer of Thomson Reuters, and winner of Computer Weekly’s “Most Influential Woman in UK ...
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CIOs must cloud-enable business processes to make companies more agile, according to John Sculley, former CEO of Apple. The Cloud Computing World Forum opened with a keynote from Sculley, who predicted cloud adoption would grow ...
Katie Davis is to step down as managing director for NHS Informatics at the Department for Health. Davis will for a short while continue to support Tim Kelsey, who has taken the position of National Director for Patients and Information ...
Tags: Health Informatics Chief, NHS, IT Support
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) has called for the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework across the banking and industry and its software and services suppliers to support the move to off-the-shelf ...
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IDG News Service-A mixture of intense excitement and skepticism followed the launch a year ago of Office 365,as backers and critics debated whether the cloud collaboration,productivity and communication suite would succeed. Skeptics said ...
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Telefonica Digital today announced partnerships with internet giants Facebook and Google so users can make payments to the websites via their mobile phones. The operator,represented by O2 in the UK,will add any amounts paid to the sites ...
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If you rely on Research in Motion's BlackBerry smartphones, it's time to prep your exit strategy. RIM is in serious decline, and the slide has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks. The company has made massive layoffs, its stock price ...
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CIO-Former management consultant Pekka Viljakainen argues in his latest book,No Fear:Business Leadership in the Age of Digital Cowboys,co-written with IT consultant Mark Mueller-Eberstein,that today's senior executives don't know how to ...
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CIO-During my recent travels,I met with a leading angel investor and we talked about the amazing roll that the technology sector is on right now.Consider the incredible amounts of investment flowing into companies like ...
Airbus is considering moving its high-performance computing centre to a colder climate to combat rising power and cooling costs in France and Germany. Airbus CIO Guus Dekkers said the company needs to take action to offset rising energy ...
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Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
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A survey of software testing capabilities has revealed a dramatic increase in the number of organisations embedding testing into the software development process. The annual report from consultancy Experimentus measured organisations ...
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The digital revolution will impact every business,not just those that deal with consumers directly,according to James McQuivey,principal analyst at Forrester. An online study from Forrester has found that 89%of people believe"digital"will ...