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CW500 and IT leadership skills

• March 20, 2012 20 Mar'12

  CIO interview: Rob Pringle, global IT director, Gazprom

  Rob Pringle, director of global IT at Gazprom Marketing and Trading, reveals the secret of rolling out IT quickly

• February 29, 2012 29 Feb'12

  IT departments risk losing responsibility for IT security

  IT security professionals can no longer take it for granted that IT security will continue as part of the IT function

• February 20, 2012 20 Feb'12

  CIO priorities 2012: Ali Jaffri, ICT manager, Gallions Housing

  Ali Jaffri, ICT manager at Gallions Housing, talks about the challenges of 2012.

• February 17, 2012 17 Feb'12

  Generation Y is a myth, says Corporate Executive Board research

  Generation Y – the computer-literate youngsters who need the latest high-tech gadget to work effectively – is a myth, the latest research reveals

• February 08, 2012 08 Feb'12

  CIO interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury’s IT chief talks about why in-house IT works better than outsourcing and how to double revenue without doubling IT spend.

• February 03, 2012 03 Feb'12

  Volkswagen UK CIO leaves to go nuclear

  Nick Gaines, formerly CIO at Volkswagen UK, has left the car firm to join Ultra Electronics Nuclear Control Systems.

• January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12

  Selfridges IT chief moves on to British Car Auctions

  Duncan Gray, formerly the group IT director at luxury retailer Selfridges, has been appointed as the new chief information officer at British Car Auctions (BCA).

• January 25, 2012 25 Jan'12

  UK IT budgets under pressure in 2012

  UK IT budgets will remain flat in 2012, a worldwide survey of more than 2,500 IT professionals has revealed.

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  Gartner identifies trends in CIO spending in 2012

  Chief information officers are facing an austere 2012. Spending on IT will rise on average by just 0.5% worldwide, but IT budgets in the UK, Europe and North America are declining.

• January 16, 2012 16 Jan'12

  Apple aims to improve working conditions for technology workforce

  Apple has published a list of all suppliers for the first time and says it will allow independent observers into its facilities around the world to monitor working conditions.

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT

  Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  CIO interview: John Finch, global CIO, Experian

  John Finch, global CIO of Experian, discusses his plans to simplify supplier management and his approach to people development.

• November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

  Centrica CIO quits to join HP

  David Bickerton, the global chief information officer at Centrica, has resigned from the utilities giant to join Hewlett-Packard.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Computer Weekly wins digital publishing award

  Computer Weekly has won a prestigious publishing industry award for the product development of the year.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann

  Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer, says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Welcome to the new-look ComputerWeekly.com

  Computer Weekly has launched its brand new website - the most important online development in the brand’s 45-year history.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  UKtech50: We launch the search for the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has launched the second annual UKtech50, the definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the leaders driving the creation of a high-tech economy.

• October 31, 2011 31 Oct'11

  What can a CIO learn from Steve Jobs?

  Steve Jobs might have been a product and marketing wonder kid but there are lots of lessons CIOs can learn from his method.

• October 20, 2011 20 Oct'11

  Cloud ERP to be adopted by hundreds of Maruti Suzuki suppliers

  Maruti Suzuki plans to persuade its tier-2 suppliers to adopt cloud ERP. Learn more about the challenges involved and Maruti's cloud ERP adoption targets.

• October 14, 2011 14 Oct'11

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympics

  With less than 10 months to go, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell is fully focused on the task of delivering a project that simply cannot miss its deadline.

• October 10, 2011 10 Oct'11

  CW500: Martin Taylor, head of infrastructure and service delivery, Mitchells & Butlers

  In this CW500 Club video, Martin Taylor talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  CW500: Andy Beale, technology director, Guardian News & Media

  In this CW500 Club video, Andy Beale talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud.

• May 26, 2011 26 May'11

  CIO interview: NHS IT chief Christine Connelly on the National Programme for IT

  As director general for informatics at the Department of Health, Christine Connelly has had one of the least enviable jobs in public sector IT: defending the much- maligned NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). But despite a fiercely critical ...

• April 26, 2011 26 Apr'11

  Technology boosts savings at WHSmith

  Retailer WHSmith says it has delivered savings thanks to IT improvements and tight cost management.

• March 25, 2011 25 Mar'11

  Announcing the CW500 Club online community

  Computer Weekly is pleased to announce the launch of the CW500 Club online community

• January 24, 2011 24 Jan'11

  Bala retires from CIO role

  S R Balasubramanian has retired from the role of CIO at Godfrey Phillips, but continues his professional activities through consultancy

• August 27, 2010 27 Aug'10

  Don't buy cloud computing hype: Business model will evaporate

  Cloud computing will not solve the data center industry's problems. Thanks to compliance issues, cloud computing will never get off the ground for commercially viable companies, and cloud providers will evaporate.

• January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08

  Social networking for business pros

  Social networking sites have created a venue for socialising, but is this venue a good locale for business users to network and generate new business leads?

• June 18, 2007 18 Jun'07

  Training budgets proving hard to justify without business metrics

  Surveys show most companies are still complacent about green computing. But ActewAGL CIO Carsten Larsen is one of a growing number of CIOs taking up the call to make sustainable ICT a bigger priority.

• October 26, 2006 26 Oct'06

  IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people

  For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell – there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward