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September 2008

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COVER STORY

Model CIO

Gary Mudie, IT director at leading online fashion retailer Asos.com, has to keep a sharp eye on future trends both in IT and on the catwalk.

BUSINESS

Customer first

Michelle McKenna, CIO of theme park operator Universal Orlando, thinks as a consumer to plan ahead.

Behind the greens

How the PGA Tour keeps score in high-profile golfing tournaments.

Citrix plans its next big move

Citrix CEO Mark Templeton says the firm is shooting to be a virtualisation all-rounder.

It's Flexi-time

Companies need to be aware of flexible-working rules and plan how to support them.

Smarter Sailing

How the British Olympics sailing team was helped by Accenture's business intelligence insights.

TECHOLOGY

Speech! Speech!

Ten years ago, it was going to be the Next Big Thing, or so pundits predicted. Is speech recognition finally ready for prime time, asks Nick Booth.

Reet Petite

Ultraportability is coming to the rescue of nomadic users but trade-offs are inevitable when it comes to specifying smartphones, Notebooks and subnotebook devices, says Eric Doyle.

Searching High

Comment: Enterprise search will replace knowledge management systems and portals to become the next big wave in business software, predicts Mike Altendorf.

LEADERSHIP

Too hot to handle

Combining part-time fire-fighting dutues with being CIO of one of the world's largest consulting firms is tough work, but someone's got to do it. And than someone is Frank Modruson.

New Information

The British Library's director of e-strategy Richard Boulderstone is taking on the mother of all digitisation project to make 150 million docuements future-proof.

Moore's Law and Me

Colmment: Intel founder Gordon Moore's dictum on exponential gains in microprocessing performance rings bells for former VP of IT at ICI, Richard Sykes.

Books

Martin Veitch reviews What They Teach You At Havard Business School and Confessions of an Ex-Enterprise Salesperson and takes a look back at Clayton M Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma.

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