Management Matters

July 2014

• Think customer first, not technology first

  Caroline Baldwin - Freelance editor and journalist 29 Jul 2014

CIOs need to be thinking about the end customer and their experience of technology, not just technology for technology's sake, said Eamonn O'Hare, ex-CFO of Virgin Media and Tesco. Talking to ...

• Government drives away from Silicon Roundabout investment

  Caroline Baldwin - Freelance editor and journalist 25 Jul 2014

Back in 2012, the government announced to huge fanfare that it was putting aside £50m investment to regenerate Old Street's Silicon Roundabout (aka Tech City) in London. The money was meant to be ...

• e-Commerce tech provides online magazines with seamless retail channel

  Caroline Baldwin - Freelance editor and journalist 23 Jul 2014

Bauer Media has begun a partnership with Atosho to allow readers of their online magazines to purchase products without having to be redirected to the retailer's website. Bauer's Mother & Baby ...

• Free iBeacon tech for retailers - but do they even know what to do with it?

  Caroline Baldwin - Freelance editor and journalist 21 Jul 2014

A specialist company has announced its ambitious plan to kit out FMCG, alcohol and publishing retailers - big and small - with free iBeacon technology. Set up in 2013, Appflare has said it will ...

• Why working out the cost of Scotland replicating Whitehall's IT systems is so difficult

  Caroline Baldwin - Freelance editor and journalist 04 Jul 2014

If Scots vote 'yes' in the Scottish referendum later this year, Computer Weekly has calculated that Scotland could spend over £1bn on replicating the necessary IT systems needed to run an ...