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CW500 and IT leadership skills

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Hancock appoints chief technology adviser

  Hadley Beeman will service as Matt Hancock’s chief technology adviser at the Department for Health and Social Care

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Finland government to review public procurement laws

  Finland's government is putting its procurement laws under the spotlight after a major IT fraud

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  Dubai Health Authority launches artificial intelligence strategy

  Healthcare organisation is rolling out next-generation technology in its health facilities to improve patient care

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  Google Cloud Platform enables faster mobile notifications for World Cup fans

  Onefootball exclusively used the Boost platform, which has now been officially launched, to offer faster mobile notifications for World Cup viewers

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands

  The use of chatbots by Dutch organisations is on the up, with KLM's chatbot a pioneering example

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  CEOs held back by boards wanting quick digital turnarounds

  Digital transformations tend to have a long return on investment, but most CEOs are failing to convince their boards that these things take time

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Barclays appointment will step up use of AI in investment bank

  Ex-Goldman Sachs expert will focus on improving Barclays’ trading services and making internal systems more efficient

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Estonia targets UK tech talent

  Estonian businesses are trying to close the country’s IT skills gap by targeting UK IT professionals as part of a recruitment campaign

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Celia Pronto, chief customer and digital officer, Casual Dining Group

  Casual Dining Group’s chief customer and digital officer, Celia Pronto, is overhauling technology, consolidating IT and improving collaboration across its 300 restaurants

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  Swedish government and industry address IT skills shortage

  Sweden faces major challenges in resourcing its growing IT sector with the right talent

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  Gartner recommends CIOs get skilled up on deep learning

  There may be some wacky predictions in Gartner's emerging trends hype cycle, but AI and even quantum computing need to be taken seriously right now

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Alan Turing Institute provides AI startups with opportunity to collaborate with researchers

  Alan Turing Institute and Digital Catapult will enable science and AI startups to work with researchers in the Data Study Groups

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  AI provides immediate diagnosis for serious eye conditions, research finds

  Artificial intelligence could diagnose eye conditions within seconds, and with the same accuracy as human experts, research finds

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Richard Corbridge, CDIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals’ new chief digital and information officer is putting together a plan for smarter use of information

• August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

  Consumers accept fraud danger as online shopping increases, research finds

  The majority of UK consumers see the threat of online fraud as “inevitable” as e-commerce popularity rises

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Liam Maxwell to swap government for AWS

  Government tech adviser Liam Maxwell is understood to be leaving government for a role at Amazon Web Services

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Dutch healthcare institutions need to think like tech sector

  The healthcare industry needs to approach technological innovation in a different way if it is to maximise the benefits for staff and patients

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Nordic fintech becomes a significant global player

  The Nordic region accounted for three of the 10 biggest financial technology deals in the first half of 2018

• August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

  A quarter of Brits expect their jobs to be replaced by tech

  A quarter of UK workers are worried their jobs will disappear because of automation and a third expect the technology to change their jobs for the worse

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  Centrica invests in software for electric vehicle charging

  Investment will help Centrica provide a fully managed electric vehicle charging service for businesses

• August 05, 2018 05 Aug'18

  The rise of humanoid robotics in the Middle East

  Middle East CIOs are planning to roll out intelligent automation technologies such as artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Alex von Schirmeister, CDTIO, RS Components

  The electronics distributor’s chief digital, technology and innovation officer (CDTIO) on putting in place a new IT infrastructure, creating a digital business and accepting risk

• August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

  GDPR harmonised with local laws in Nordic EU states

  Sweden provides an interesting challenge for the European Union’s data protection regulation due to its laws around freedom of press and free speech

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Public sector increases outsourcing in first half of 2018

  IT and business processing outsourcing in UK central government accelerates in the first half this year, almost matching the total spend by financial services firms

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Inner-city colocation space in demand as firms want better latency, says Interxion managing director

  Previous predictions that rural datacentres would be more common are being changed as enterprises aim to bring better latency to customers, says Interxion managing director Andrew Fray

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Cynozure lets you hire a chief digital officer on demand

  Why pay for a full-time chief digital officer? Cynozure has a new service to enable smaller businesses to swap them out, as and when they need a change

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Intelligent automation spending to hit $232bn by 2025

  Technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and machine learning could help traditional enterprises gain ground on digital-first giants

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Utilita Energy supplier uses cloud to rapidly scale IT service desk

  Energy provider Utilita Energy puts its IT service management in the cloud to support its rapid growth

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Court RPA or get sidelined

  Robotic process automation (RPA) is helping businesses go through digital transformation. Time for IT to play catch-up

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  CIO interview: David Ivell, chief technology officer, Good Energy

  Renewable energy supplier aims to pioneer change in the sector through innovation, having refocused the organisation with technology as a “driving force”

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  AWS’s sales up almost 50% year-on-year in second quarter

  Cloud giant’s quarterly sales hit $6.1bn in third consecutive year-on-year rise as Ryanair, Major League Baseball and 21st Century Fox join its list of customers

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  IT meltdown pushes TSB into loss

  Bank is feeling the effects of its recent IT problems, reporting a loss of more than £100m for the first six months of 2018

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  UK relegated to fourth place in UN e–government survey

  The UK has dropped from first to fourth in the United Nations’ ranking on e-governments across the world, falling behind Denmark, Australia and South Korea

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Large organisations less confident over cloud security compared to smaller businesses

  A study has found larger enterprises are not as confident as smaller businesses about the security of their data in the public cloud

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Fix culture to make digital a success

  Businesses with well-honed processes will often find it hard to adapt to new, digital transformation initiatives, according to Gartner report

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Government outsourcing at a crossroads, says PAC report

  The government needs to change the market that supplies it with services through better contracting practices if it is to achieve anything beyond lowest price, according to a PAC report

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Stagecoach trials full-size driverless bus

  Bus operator Stagecoach is testing out a full-size autonomous bus in its own depots, with future potential for use on passenger routes

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Nordnet drops AI assistant while SEB deepens collaboration

  One Nordic bank decides to stop using cognitive agent Amelia to focus on other AI technologies, but another widens the use of the software

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Organisations are ready to adopt DevOps to power digital transformation

  Companies across Europe are increasingly turning to DevOps to help them adapt their software processes to support new customer-centric business uses

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  CIO interview: Miranda Sharp, director of innovation, Ordnance Survey

  Ordnance Survey’s innovation director talks about how the mapping agency is embracing new technologies, working on infrastructure for connected cars, and creating a geospatial framework in Manchester

• July 23, 2018 23 Jul'18

  Marks and Spencer to invest in startups as part of retail partnership with Founders Factory

  Marks and Spencer is continuing its efforts to digitally transform its business by starting an investment partnership for startups

• July 23, 2018 23 Jul'18

  Commerzbank creates Hadoop-based platform for business-critical insights

  German bank creates an entire new department to build and support a platform to provide business-critical insights

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Cambridge students offered chance to win £10,000 to develop innovative tech ideas at Trinity College

  Cambridge University under and postgraduates are now able to apply for a competition to win £10,000 and the chance to develop their tech ideas at the Bradfield Centre

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  PAC doubts justice system transformation programme will be a success

  Public Accounts Committee says it’s difficult to see how the government’s “extremely challenging" £1.2bn project to overhaul courts through use of technology “will ever work"

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Interview: Dan Phelps, chief architect, Travelex

  Travelex is changing the way it works by combining people, processes and technology to transform the company and by setting up a digital platform

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Heathrow flights grounded by IT failure

  Aircraft unable to take off at airport following failure of an IT system at one of BA's suppliers, that even led to the temporary closure of the control tower

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  NHS on the hunt for chief data officer

  The NHS CDO will report directly to NHS Digital CEO Sarah Wilkinson, get paid up to £176,750 and be responsible for a budget of around £57m

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Global trading infrastructure firm opens office in Ireland because of Brexit

  Financial services firms are attracted to Ireland as the UK prepares to leave the EU, leading to the creation of IT jobs in the Emerald Isle

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  CIO interview: Jon Marchant, CIO, PayPoint

  PayPoint CIO describes the company’s shift to retail services and how it went from knowing very little about electronic point of sale system software to creating its own

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  Interview: Pippa Thomas, regional IT director, Freeman Clarke

  Freeman Clarke’s regional IT director, Pippa Thomas, on the role of interim CIOs and why organisations use them