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Gavin Michael: the Lloyds TSB Global villager

Commuting between Australia and the UK is just another challenge for Gavin Michael, the CIO of retail banking at Lloyds TSB
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The future state of the CRM market

SaaS payment will push it to the fore of CRM adoption in current market
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Business intelligence oils the wheels of oil sector profit

BI tools are essential the multiple facets of the oil industry and its recent profits
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Can Web 2.0 save BI?

Web 2.0 technology will benefit BI tools and their users
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Know thy customer

Emerging markets are pioneering BI usage in traditional sectors like the oil industry
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Provident Financial IT director Penny Jones on climbing obstacles

Provident Financial IT director Penny Jones has a wealth of experience in business technology, but worries over the place of women, young recruits and the effects of outsourcing
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Virgin Rail, platforms for IT change

The rail industry never stands still, and Virgin Rail’s IT chief Francis Jellings knows that goes for the IT infrastructure as much as the rolling stock
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Painting the Co-op IT green

A new point-of-sale system lets devices sleep at night, saving money and energy at The Co-operative Group
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Google: We are deadly serious about the enterprise

Search giant marks 10 years with renewed commitment to IT directors
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Managing career-threatening risks

Staying out of trouble
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Latest Concern Articles

Infrastructure Refresh > Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud

Sumner Lemon

Compliance > Essential reading, books every CIO should have

Fact and fiction mesh for success

Managing Budgets > Cracking IT vendor relations

It’s not easy to bend your supplier to your own will to get the products you need, but there are ways of making them talk

Business Alignment > The new meaning of service?

IT service management will improve over time and meet the expectations of users

Security > Telepresence promises meetings that are as productive as face-to-face

Virtually there

People Leadership > Fiat is alive and kicking thanks in part to tech policy

A recipe for success

Resource Management > High travel prices leading to more web, video conferencing

Flying could become a thing of the past as web and video technology finally takes off

Managing Customers > Organisational Skills to Implement SOA

Cultural issues can damage SOA plans, CIO UK explains how to avoid them

Managing Change > Business Analysts: A key to success

Make the most of your BA’s, they could open new doors for your enterprise

Board Politics > How to embrace millennial’ workers

Generation games

Latest News

CIO News View: The day I joshed with Steve Ballmer

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INTERVIEW: Steve Ballmer on the Cloud, Google, data centres and the cult of Apple

CIO editor Martin Veitch interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer directly after his keynote at his company’s London conference “Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow’s Strategies Today”.

Technology helps Tesco beat crunch

IT systems have played a key role in helping Tesco deliver strong profits.

Microsoft launches new enterprise license deal

A new Microsoft licensing plan, Select Plus , will launch tomorrow (1 October).

IBM previews virtualisation security products

IBM has lifted the lid on products it says will address security issues associated with virtualisation.

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Articles In Other Technology Areas

Databases > Richard Sykes: It’s the humans, stupid!

Technology doesn’t just develop itself, and talent management skills are vital when it comes to innovative projects

Security > What CEOs want from their next IT leaders

A panel at the CIO Leadership event in Boston pooled thoughts on what CEOs want from their next IT leaders.

Internet/eCommerce > Why CIOs think developers are clueless

What do CIOs and IT directors want from their developers? A little bit of understanding and sympathy for the aims of the organisation that employs them, according to research carried out by CIO.com

Infrastructure > Five best practices for implementing SaaS CRM

Forrester discover the path to CRM satisifaction

Communications > Groupe Danone North America CIO Jeff Hutchinson on videoconferencing

Jeff Hutchinson, North America CIO at food product giant Groupe Danone, explains how the firm’s innovation team develops solutions like videoconferencing

Mobile IT > Mike Altendorf : Home thoughts from abroad

I do feel for CIOs trying to compete when running legacy systems and trying to match user expectations of fast response times, faultless uptime and the whole new level of expectation we have, even of wireless networks, these days.

Outsourcing > Google eyes the enterprise market

The search giant is showing signs of making progress in the enterprise as it targets Microsoft’s cash cows of Office and Exchange

SOA > Andy Hayler: The innovation game

Identifying five recent enterprise software innovations is almost as difficult as naming five famous Belgians, says Andy Hayler

Storage > The second age of e-discovery

Good governance – and the law – mandate that companies invest in e-discovery solutions for tracking down messages and files in the event of a probe