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Groupe Danone North America CIO Jeff Hutchinson on videoconferencing

Picturing the future today
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Telepresence promises meetings that are as productive as face-to-face

Virtually there
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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
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How to embrace millennial’ workers

Generation games
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Watch worker activity to predict software demands

CIOs need to monitor the behaviour of employees to predict software requirements
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Unified approach to rapid legal sector growth

Graeme Low of law firm Mills & Reeve explains how IT has enabled law firms to grow rapidly and improve cost control
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Sustainability is not an add-on or a departmental issue

Like security and compliance, sustainability is pervasive, creeping into every corner of the organisation, the CIO, will be right at the heart of its planning and implementation.
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Transport for London’s CIO Phil Pavitt makes travellers top priority

Ticket to ride
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IT and the business: sharing a common language

For IT to succeed in an organisation it must become a central part of the business. To do this requires effective communication. Mark Chillingworth reports from a recent CIO event at Claridges, sponsored by BMC
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In-depth investigation

Computer forensics has helped bust scams across the country – but could this re-emerging discipline help your organisation? Ambrose McNevin takes a look at the evidence
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Latest Concern Articles

People Leadership > Forging a Business Partner

CIOs reshape their IT culture to create an organization capable of partnering strategically with the rest of the business

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

Sumner Lemon

Business Alignment > The future state of the CRM market

SaaS payment will push it to the fore of CRM adoption in current market

Managing Budgets > Business intelligence oils the wheels of oil sector profit

BI tools are essential the multiple facets of the oil industry and its recent profits

Security > Know thy customer

Emerging markets are pioneering BI usage in traditional sectors like the oil industry

Managing Customers > 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

Compliance > Essential reading, books every CIO should have

Fact and fiction mesh for success

Resource Management > 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

Managing Change > Google: We are deadly serious about the enterprise

Search giant marks 10 years with renewed commitment to IT directors

Board Politics > 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

Latest News

EU looks to web future

European telecommunications commissioner Viviane Reding's vision for the future of the internet has been praised by Vint Cerf, one of the pioneers of the internet and now vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google.

CIO News View: Android phones add to handset chaos

In a standardised world, business phone scene remains the Wild West

IBM ready to roll out hosted Lotus Notes service

IBM said it has plans to crank up its first-ever Notes hosting service that will cater to companies with between 1,000 and 10,000 users.

South Tyneside Council inks £184m BT services deal

South Tyneside Council has signed a £184 million, 10-year IT services deal with BT.

Vast Wi-Fi hotspot live at Heathrow T5

A Wi-Fi hotspot the size of 50 football pitches has gone live at Heathrow Terminal 5.

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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.

Business Applications > 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

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

Mobile IT > Can Web 2.0 save BI?

Business Intelligence 2.0, a world in which one of BI's original big promises is finally being met.

Outsourcing > Managing career-threatening risks

Today’s comprehensive rules and regulations mean that any CIO can fall foul of the regulators. So what are the experts’ guidelines on managing career-threatening risks?

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