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CW500 and IT leadership skills

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  Forging a new identity: IT underpins Openreach’s independence

  Openreach chief technology and information officer Mark Lam discusses how IT is helping to forge a new and distinct identity for the network infrastructure business as it leaves the wider BT Group

• December 07, 2017 07 Dec'17

  Hortilux uses Mendix-powered application to digitise greenhouses

  Grow light maker shifts from product to digitally enabled service to support greenhouse growers

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  UKtech50 2017 - The most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has announced the eighth annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK IT sector

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  UKtech50 interview: DWP chief digital and information officer Mayank Prakash

  The UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2017, Department for Work and Pensions chief digital and information officer Mayank Prakash, talks about changing ways of working, the importance of culture and the role of new technologies

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Carlos Abarca, TSB

  Carlos Abarca is guiding TSB through its migration from systems hosted by a competitor to a digitally focused in-house core banking platform.

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Chief data officer role is key to business success, says Gartner

  There’s a new chief in business, set to take on stewardship of the company’s data assets, research shows

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  Third of Sweden's IT providers could be gone in two years

  The IT services sector in Sweden will be decimated as hundreds of local suppliers disappear

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  ‘Depressing’ lack of diversity in UK IT workforce sees widespread discrimination

  The UK IT sector is a difficult place to find a job unless you are a white, able-bodied male under 50, says BCS research

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Fintech is increasing operational risk to banks

  European Banking Association report reveals fear of greater operational risk because of increased take-up of fintech in financial services sector

• November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17

  UK IT professionals could lose out in a free trade deal between UK and India

  There could be an increase in Indian IT professionals coming to work in the UK post-Brexit if a new trade deal is signed with India

• November 26, 2017 26 Nov'17

  UK only average in terms of digital public services

  UK government has the innovation skills to become a digital public services leader, but needs to improve the ID and authentication that sits underneath it to reach this goal

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  CIO interview: David Southern, director of ICT, WWF UK

  In his 17 years in the IT department at the WWF, David Southern has seen many changes – and the advent of cloud computing is one of the biggest

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  Nordic CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia

  Swedish construction company Svevia is transforming digitally, driven by chief information officer Emil Dahlin

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  CIO interview: Juan Perez, CIO, UPS

  UPS CIO Juan Perez talks about the importance of having a “business-intimate” IT department and using technology to develop a “personal touch”

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  CIO interview: Claire Priestley, IT director, City, University of London

  City, University of London's IT director is leading her team's drive for innovation while seeking collaboration with other public sector bodies in the capital

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Dubai Health Authority completes final phase of Salama electronic medical records system roll-out

  Dubai Health Authority completes medical records digitisation scheme, 21 months after the project was first unveiled

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Private Swiss bank Julius Baer to save $1m a year with cloud HR

  Julius Baer banks on higher returns after replacing on-premise systems with cloud HR services

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Post Office court case judge issues warning to legal teams

  The high court judge managing the sub-postmasters versus Post Office legal case over an allegedly faulty computer system tells legal teams to cooperate

• November 09, 2017 09 Nov'17

  Bangalore offers the best ecosystem for digital transformation, says Economist report

  Bangalore ranked as the number one location for businesses looking to access the right ecosystem to support digital transformation

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  The digital transformation journey – four IT leaders share the lessons learned

  CIOs discussed the best practices in driving digital change at the recent Gartner Symposium event in Barcelona

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  People ready to consider AI, but businesses must tackle ethics

  Study from Sage finds technology early adopters and consumers are ready to try artificial intelligence, but there are concerns over ethics

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  CIOs need to champion digital change as IT leadership roles evolve

  Gartner CIO survey shows digital business is changing mindsets and culture at organisations that are successful in transformation

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  How soon will we be driving fully autonomous cars?

  Nvidia sets out vision for driverless cars as its new Pegasus processor promises to support “level 5” autonomy

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  Monique Shivanandan leaves Aviva

  CIO has left the insurance company after more than three years in the role

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  NHS England on the hunt for new CCIO

  NHS England is looking for a chief clinical information officer to replace Keith McNeil, who resigned from his role earlier this year

• October 27, 2017 27 Oct'17

  Nordea lays off 6,000, citing digital transformation as the driver

  Nordea is cutting staff as a result of its ongoing digital transformation, which means it needs less people

• October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17

  IBM’s Joanna Davinson to become new Home Office tech boss

  IBM executive to replace Sarah Wilkinson as chief digital, data and technology officer

• October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17

  Operators urged to find compelling B2B use cases for 5G

  5G has the capability to bring froward a number of use cases for the business-to-business sector, says Innovate UK

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Millions being lost due to downtime in industrial systems

  Industrial companies are losing $260,000 per hour due to unplanned downtime, but predicting failure using digital twins can help overcome the problem

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Post Office computer system legal case reaches important procedural juncture

  Sub-postmasters group action against the Post Office reaches an important milestone

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Norway’s Trondheim embraces the cloud with Google G Suite

  Municipality is reaping the benefits of moving productivity software to the cloud

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

  Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  RSA’s Middle East cyber security conference gains its own identity

  RSA Abu Dhabi conference focuses on region’s cyber security needs as digital technology deployments expand

• October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17

  CW500: How the NHS WannaCry cyber attack unfolded

  NHS Digital’s head of security talks about the security landscape in the NHS and why it led to extra challenges when the WannaCry cyber attack hit the NHS in May 2017

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  How technology is transforming healthcare delivery in Gulf region

  IT will transform the healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the coming years

• October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17

  UK bank Standard Chartered opens IT service centre in Bangalore

  Bank is expanding its operation in India, which provides business services to its operations globally

• October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17

  CW500: A perfect storm – the cyber attack that hit Parliament

  The former director of the Parliamentary Digital Service shares details and lessons learned from the cyber attack that hit UK parliament in June and explains why it was a “good experience”

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Teva Pharmaceuticals turns to cloud HR as it weathers difficult trading conditions

  One of Israel’s largest manufacturing companies has invested more than $10m in cloud HR. The technology is helping Teva Pharmaceuticals turn its fortunes around.

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Abu Dhabi transport department uses drones to improve traffic flows

  Data collected by live video stream from drones is analysed at control centre to help alleviate traffic jams and other issues

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Some IT contractors earning more than £700 a day

  Research shows 40% of contractors reach the average annual IT salary within three months

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017

  Computer Weekly has announced the list for Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017, including this year’s winner Sherry Coutu

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017: Rising Stars

  Computer Weekly reveals the judges’ choice for this year’s female Rising Stars of the UK technology industry

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  Role models best way to increase diversity, says Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2017 Sherry Coutu

  The winner of Computer Weekly’s 2017 Most Influential Woman in UK IT award, Sherry Coutu, says role models are the best way of addressing the diversity imbalance in the technology industry

• October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17

  Dubai Land Department launches interactive app

  Mashrooi app will track real estate project progress and allow users to compare construction against developers’ plans

• October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17

  CIOs moving to revenue-generating roles

  Gartner survey shows changing role for CIOs to cover revenue generation and deriving value from data, and spending less time on traditional IT delivery

• October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17

  Hard Brexit would see UK tech exports fall by £1.7bn

  UK manufacturers including those in the technology sector will lose billions of pounds of export revenue if the government completes a hard Brexit

• September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17

  UK-EU talks have failed to raise confidence of IT leaders

  IT decision-makers are no more confident about how Brexit will affect them despite this year’s general election and talks between the EU and the UK

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Amazon launches Middle East region

  Amazon opens its latest delivery hub in Bahrain to serve customers in the Middle East

• September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17

  Uber fails to get licence to operate in London renewed

  Transport for London has rejected Uber's application for its licence renewal, citing a lack of corporate responsibility as the reason