CIO Insights
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CIOs told: Keep BYOA at bay with a corporate app store
By Nick Heath | March 8, 2013, 2:22 AM PST
CIOs faced with staff buying apps and online services without running it past the IT department are being advised to build corporate app stores to tempt staff back into using sanctioned software.
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Enterprise software: Win over the staff and you'll win over the business
By Nick Heath | March 4, 2013, 3:14 AM PST
Enterprise software needs to be as easy and enjoyable to use as consumer offerings if it is to appeal to today's workforce, according to a panel debate at the London Web Summit.
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Firms choose cloud services for one quarter of business functions
By Nick Heath | March 1, 2013, 9:43 AM PST
Cloud services are being used to fulfil e-commerce, email and storage roles, but CIOs are doubtful about cost savings, a survey has found.
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Cloud users redirect cash saved to business innovation, staffing
By Sam Shead | February 28, 2013, 7:28 AM PST
Businesses are taking cloud savings and reinvesting them in other parts of the business including innovation and new staff, according to research.
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Why every executive is a tech executive now
By Sam Shead | February 20, 2013, 6:36 AM PST
Executives across an organisation need to embrace and understand technologies - from cloud to software-defined networks - if they want to stay ahead of the game.
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IT innovation: Why are US and UK bottom of the pile?
By Toby Wolpe | February 12, 2013, 2:20 AM PST
US and UK organisations are putting less into innovative IT than their international counterparts - and well below firms in Brazil.
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Businesses caught out by the complexity of cloud
By Nick Heath | February 7, 2013, 3:05 AM PST
Business and IT executives say higher than expected implementation costs is the number one challenge when buying cloud services.
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Hybrid mobile apps: the future of app development?
By Nick Heath | February 5, 2013, 1:22 AM PST
Hybrid apps may be the norm, not the exception, within a few years as companies try to cut the cost of app deployment across multiple platforms.
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The secret to low-cost IT? Offload whatever you can
By Nick Heath | February 4, 2013, 3:05 AM PST
How easyJet keeps IT costs down while still delivering innovations
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How cloud platforms are letting business get experimental
By Nick Heath | January 31, 2013, 11:48 AM PST
Public cloud platforms are providing a cost-effective way for companies to experiment with new business ideas.
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Stop doing what the vendors tell you, CIOs told
By Nick Heath | January 17, 2013, 3:08 AM PST
Corporate IT strategies are too often bland rehashes of what's come before, says Gartner after surveying more than 2,000 CIOs on their plans for the coming year.
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Training, not outsourcing, is key to success say CIOs
By Nick Heath | January 16, 2013, 6:43 AM PST
IT leaders who focus on training and retaining staff are generally more successful than those buying in talent from outsourcers, a global survey of more than 2,000 CIOs finds.
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Ten business trends for 2013 - and four ways they affect you
By Peter Cochrane | January 16, 2013, 1:11 AM PST
The ratchet of change just went 'click' and is the new stable, the new economy, and there is no going back, and what is in store is even more radical.
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Nerves of glass - Artificial Intelligence and us
By Peter Cochrane | January 15, 2013, 2:53 AM PST
For decades pundits have been describing optical fibre networks as the nervous system of the planet, but none could have guessed just how prophetic that would be.
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Will 2013 be a better year for the tech department? CIOs think so
By Steve Ranger | January 14, 2013, 8:44 AM PST
Higher budgets for staffing and tech, plus big data and cloud means this year will be a better year for tech workers than 2012, according to the TechRepublic CIO Jury.
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Apple and Android tablets to make enterprise land grab this year
By Nick Heath | January 4, 2013, 4:46 AM PST
Growth in sales of Android and Apple tablets to business will significantly outstrip that of Wintel PCs and tablets this year, according to a new report.
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Why today's CIOs may no longer be up to the job
By Nick Heath | December 18, 2012, 5:20 AM PST
As CIOs are asked to take a more strategic role in businesses fresh talent may be needed to take over from IT leaders stuck in an "order taker" mentality.
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Email: Middle aged and still going strong
By Monica Seeley | December 17, 2012, 4:24 AM PST
Email celebrated its 41st birthday recently, yet despite its age new research shows that its use is unlikely to significantly wane for at least the next decade.
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Automation will force inhouse IT staff to retrain
By Nick Heath | December 12, 2012, 4:24 AM PST
IT staff will need to prepare for disruption as automation of IT management processes picks up according to the author of a new report.
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Big data skills: Should data scientist be your next job?
By Nick Heath | December 11, 2012, 7:35 AM PST
A look at how IT workers can prepare to meet business demand for big data analytics skills.
