In this first in a series on globalisation, Lindsay Clark looks at how this conceptual shift is changing the way businesses operate and how the IT function is managed and deployed
London is creating 39% of new IT roles in the UK, despite accounting for just 12% of the UK population, research by IT staffing company ReThink Recruitment has found.
Tracing business benefits back to IT systems can be difficult. But when it comes to professional sports events such as the America's Cup, the systems used by sailing teams for navigation and diagnostics can make the difference between first place and the long walk home.
CIOs have been advised to promote themselves as business-focused innovators, rather than IT experts, following news that Boots and House of Fraser have axed the IT director role.
The biggest barrier to collaboration between IT and compliance professionals is the lack of understanding about risk and compliance issues by corporate IT, according to a survey.