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IT project management

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  Women should worry less about not having tech background when going into Stem

  Panellists at Tomorrow’s Tech Leaders Today conference claim women don’t need a technical background to build a career in the technology industry

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Jo De Vliegher, Hydro

  The CIO at Norway's Hydro has established an IT department that allows for regional autonomy and central guidance at the same time

• January 25, 2016 25 Jan'16

  Alstom outsources IT transformation to HCL Technologies

  Train engineering company Alstom has outsourced its IT to HCL Technologies as part of a five-year transformation project

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Digital methods will improve government projects, says civil service chief

  Civil service CEO John Manzoni tells MPs that lessons learned from digital technologies will help improve the track record of all major projects in government

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Gatwick Airport’s Community App keeps everyone better informed

  Gatwick’s head of IT commercial, Abhilash Chacko, explains the airport’s latest internal communications innovation

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Rapid Router: why Ocado Technology turned to open source

  Retailer’s technology division open-sources learning-to-code initiative to encourage continuous development of coding game

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Mats Hultin, Saab Group

  Saab Group's CIO talks to Computer Weekly about the huge challenge of integrating 40 separate IT organisations into one

• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Aviva partners Beyond the Classroom to inspire girls into tech

  Chika Aghadiuno, vice chair of Aviva’s women’s network, says it is important to make young people aware of potential careers

• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Nominet Trust 100 tech for good list: The organisations driving change

  Nominet Trust releases its annual guide of 100 organisations across the globe using technology to drive positive change

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  BBC CTO Matthew Postgate to head up technology division

  Matthew Postgate, chief technology officer of the BBC, will take on a different role in April 2016 leading a new division for the firm

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  IT industry needs people with emotional intelligence, says Network Rail CIO

  As Network Rail’s third ‘Could IT be you?’ competition draws to a close, the company’s CIO explains why the project was launched

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs

  London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Home Office e-Borders programme costs to reach £1.1bn by 2019, says NAO report

  The failed e-Borders programme has cost £830m to date, with a further £275m projected costs before the Home Office produces new systems in-house, due to go live in 2019

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Jesper Riis, DSV

  IT plays a business-critical role at Danish logistics and transportation company DSV. CIO Jesper Riis tells Computer Weekly about his current challenges

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  What type of CIO do you want to be?

  There are three types of CIO, a major global research study has revealed. Which type would you like to be – trusted operator, change instigator or business co-creator?

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  TUI develops apps to keep in touch with holidaymakers all year

  Travel group plans to create mobile apps for holidaymakers to ask questions, book excursions and potentially plan their next trip

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Five key strategies for IoT success

  Companies need to be agile because in some IoT systems, it will be a question of the winner taking it all, according to Kent Eriksson, IoT business consultant at PTC

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Lone Bundgaard, Coloplast

  IT development head at Danish medical products and services company plays core role in major change to how the company engages with its customers

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Placing unemployed women in the IT industry could solve skills gap, says Martha Lane Fox

  Speaking at the Microsoft Future Decoded event in London, Martha Lane Fox said giving unemployed women digital skills and IT jobs could solve the skills gap

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Secret report into rural payments IT problems points finger at RPA CEO

  The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is withholding a highly critical report into IT problems that led to the withdrawal of the £154m farmers' digital service

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

  The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Using open data to solve social challenges

  The Open Data Institute has spent the past two years funding startups to build applications that could solve socio-economic problems

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  British American Tobacco saves £1.4m after automating candidate selection

  British American Tobacco uses custom profiling software to cut the number of applications managers have to screen by half, as part of a major re-organisation of its recruitment processes

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Yakult uses data analytics to boost growth in the Netherlands by 20%

  Probiotics maker Yakult is using analytics and data visualisation tools to boost its sales in the Netherlands

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

  Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  How easyJet uses digital to drive competitive advantage

  The CIO and head of digital at easyJet tell Computer Weekly price is not the only way to gain competitive advantage in the airline industry

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  UK digital economy needs 2.3 million digital workers by 2020

  The UK will need the skills of 2.3 million digital workers by 2020 if it hopes to power the promised digital economy, according to research from O2

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  JLab’s 2015 startups explain how the accelerator has helped them

  Finalists of the John Lewis JLab accelerator explain what experience they have gained on the programme

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Care.data chief Tim Kelsey to leave NHS England

  NHS England’s digital chief will leave the organisation in December to take up a new role with Telstra Health in Australia

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Early plans for Universal Credit show DWP expected to complete project in two years

  An early plan drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for its Universal Credit scheme reveals unrealistic ambitions for the troubled project

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  The Data School: Former Facebook employee launches training programme for future data analysts

  After working at Facebook as a data analyst, Andy Kriebel explains why he moved to the UK and launched a training programme for data scientists

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket

  When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Use technology to improve NHS, say patients

  Almost 70% of the population believes technology should be used in the NHS to improve patient outcomes and efficiency, says Trustmarque

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  What will happen to digital government when GDS chief Mike Bracken moves on?

  The government’s digital chief Mike Bracken has announced he will be leaving, raising concerns over the future of digital government

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  HMRC to transfer 250 Capgemini staff in-house ready for Aspire contract end

  HMRC’s Aspire outsourcing contract will be replaced by slowly bringing staff in-house to give the department more control over IT

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Sage Summit 2015: The move to cloud technology and the death of ERP

  Accountancy software firm Sage has released new cloud-based software, highlighting the gap between the use of cloud and on-premise in the workplace and declaring a move away from traditional ERP

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  HMRC explains plans for moving tax systems to the cloud

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reveals more details of its plan to move tax systems into the cloud on its digital blog

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  MoD shells out £1.5bn on two IT contracts

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) signs two IT contracts costing more than £1bn, which it hopes will save money over the next 10 years

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  NHS Central Southern deploys Clarizen for collaboration

  The NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit has enlisted Clarizen to improve cross-group collaboration and improve efficiency

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

  Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Metropolitan Police picks Innopsis to lead network procurement

  London’s Metropolitan Police Service signs public-sector networking association Innopsis to lead engagement on network procurement

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  NHS IT system for GP data upload slammed for delays and overspend

  National Audit Office report highlights problems that led to four-year delay and a system that did not work when completed

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Do not leave digital government development to Whitehall, says Chi Onwurah MP

  Whitehall should not be left with sole responsibility for the government drive to building a digital future, says shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Universal Credit costs leap by more than 20% to £15.8bn

  Figures reveal increase in lifetime cost since changes to the plan made to 'reset' the troubled welfare reform programme

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service

  The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Case study: Model railway company Hornby overhauls payments with Braintree

  Hornby’s head of digital strategy explains how the firm chose Braintree as its online payments platform following its website migration last year

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Bet365: A company betting on its own technology innovations

  While many sites make great use of agile development, run on the cloud and are built on Java and JavaScript, Bet365 is doing IT its own way

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Government Digital Service insists Verify safe despite claims of vulnerabilities

  An academic paper suggests the Gov.uk Verify system could be used as a spy network, but the Government Digital Service (GDS) insists this is not the case

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service