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• December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16

  CIO interview: MoD’s DII replacement will feed government as a platform

  Mike Stone, who will soon be leaving his position of CIO at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), explains how the MoD’s DII replacement will feed into government as a platform

• December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16

  Auticon: the IT consultancy that employs only autistic IT professionals

  IT consultancy Auticon explains why and how it employs only autistic consultants and why diversity is beneficial for businesses

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Metro Bank moves IT infrastructure to cloud

  Metro Bank moves its IT infrastructure to a private Rackspace cloud platform, which will allow it to keep up with the latest technologies and reduce costs

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  Government Transformation Strategy to 'fundamentally' change the way departments operate

  A background document seen by Computer Weekly outlines details of the forthcoming Government Transformation Strategy

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  UKtech50 2016 - The most influential people in UK IT

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

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  London Stock Exchange opens tech services centre in Sri Lanka

  The London Stock Exchange increases its technology support services operation in Sri Lanka

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  Group litigation against Post Office in Horizon system dispute prepares for next stage

  Postmasters’ legal case against the Post Office claims that computer system is to blame for losses, not false accounting or theft

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  How InterContinental Hotels connects with real-time marketing

  InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Middle East bank to launch AI for customer support

  Middle East bank Emirates NBD is piloting artificial intelligence to automate customer services

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Dutch IT ministry needed to take digital lead

  Whenever the media covers a failed Dutch government IT project, the question is always asked whether the government should have a ministry of IT

• November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16

  Foot Locker to roll out ‘best fit’ recruitment software after productivity hike

  Sports retailer to adopt online software to identify best job candidates after its use led to double-digit rise in team performance in US stores

• November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16

  Consider diversity when making hiring decisions, says Fujitsu chairman

  Michael Keegan, chairman and head of product business for Fujitsu in EMEIA, urges hiring managers to ensure they are seeing a diverse range of candidates when hiring for tech roles

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Dutch bank ING to spend millions ‘disrupting’ its own business

  Dutch bank ING used digital technology to reinvent itself following the financial crash, and is about to reinvent itself again, says its global CTO, Brendan Donovan

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

  Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff

  Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Unilever puts digital transformation in the hands of IT

  The global IT director of digital marketing at Unilever explains how the firm has managed digital transformation by shifting the role of the IT team

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Snowden: the IT analyst turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance

  Oliver Stone's biopic on Edward Snowden reaches the heart of the ethical crisis posed by mass surveillance for the state and ordinary citizens

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  Facebook at Work comes out of beta and launches as Workplace

  Facebook launches its Workplace application for use in a professional environment after a year of beta

• October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16

  Number of women working in IT to rise by 2020

  The proportion of women choosing to work in the IT profession is set to increase over the next four years as businesses adopt digital technology, according to a major study by the CEB

• October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16

  Swedish bank uses Amelia the robot for customer services

  SEB is using AI software from IPsoft for customer service after a successful internal project

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Splunk .conf2016: Closing the tech gender gap requires a shift in culture

  Cyber security experts assembled at the Splunk 2016 conference to discuss the gender gap in cyber security and what can be done to solve it

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  NGOs challenge UK and US mass surveillance in human rights court

  Privacy International, Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union are among 10 human rights groups backing a landmark challenge to mass surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Emirates Islamic bank and the Muslim finance revolution

  The CIO at Dubai-based bank Emirates Islamic tells Computer Weekly how IT is supporting the company through industry change

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Ministry of Justice IT systems are ‘fragile and precarious’, say MPs

  Public Accounts Committee calls on ministry to urgently improve its “inefficient” IT systems to avoid delays to service transformation

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Government’s lack of clear plan for digital NHS poses risk to ‘credibility’

  The King‘s Fund warns that the government’s plans for a digital NHS lack clarity around funding and priorities

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Alleged hacker Lauri Love can be extradited to the US, court rules

  Westminster Magistrates’ Court has ruled that alleged hacker, Lauri Love, can be extradited to the US, where he could face a 99-year prison sentence

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  MaidSafe secure internet concept enters testing phase

  Scottish internet startup MaidSafe brings its vision for a more private and secure approach to the web a step closer to reality

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  CIO interview: Neil Pearce, Travis Perkins

  Retailer Travis Perkins’ largest IT transformation programme to date is a challenge CIO Neil Pearce is more than happy to take on

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions

  IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  A quarter of local council procurement policies do not support use of G-Cloud, research shows

  Latest research by public sector-focused IT provider Eduserv sheds further light on reasons why local councils have been slow to adopt the G-Cloud procurement framework

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  MoD becomes first tenant in Microsoft's UK Azure datacentre

  Microsoft’s UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365

• September 06, 2016 06 Sep'16

  DWP "seriously considered" suing IT suppliers over Universal Credit failure

  Institute for Government report reveals that during the 2013 “reset” of Universal Credit, the Department for Work and Pensions pointed fingers at suppliers

• September 02, 2016 02 Sep'16

  Banks should avoid customer service robots for a few more years

  Banking sector should not use software robots to automate customer services such as chat because consumers expect better service levels when it come to their finances

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  Interim Gov.uk Verify boss sets out future priorities

  Jess McEvoy looks at potential for re-use of the government’s identity assurance platform in both public and private sector

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules

  Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud

  The latest move in the cloud journey of DBS bank in Singapore is an agreement with Amazon Web Services

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Will Whitehall power struggle cripple Government Digital Service?

  After losing its second leader in less than a year, does the Government Digital Service stand any chance of a successful future?

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Liv Fiksdahl, DNB

  CIO of Norwegian bank tells Computer Weekly how Indian outsourcing partners help her keep costs down and digitise the business

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  Stephen Foreshew-Cain confirms he is leaving GDS

  Head of Government Digital Service is leaving after nine months in the role, to be replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kevin Cunnington

• August 01, 2016 01 Aug'16

  IT boss Mark Dearnley to leave HMRC

  HMRC’s chief digital and information officer is returning to the private sector in the midst of the department’s Aspire contract exit

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Vesa Erolainen, Pöyry

  Doubts were raised when Vesa Erolainen, CIO at Finnish engineering and consulting company Pöyry, outlined his IT transformation plan, but he ended up winning an award for it

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  UK’s top security judges struggle to assess privacy threats

  Technological advancements make it difficult for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to assess privacy threats, say the tribunal’s own judges

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Date set for landmark hearing into EU-US data transfers

  Irish court hearing triggered by Austrian law student Max Schrems could have huge implications for EU-US trade and the data privacy rights of millions of EU citizens

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Benelux CIO interview: Paul Elich, CIO at KLM

  Paul Elich, CIO at Dutch airline KLM, tells Computer Weekly about building innovation into IT departments and the ongoing de-duplication of internal systems since its merger with Air France

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  How Salesforce is encouraging people into coding

  Trailhead initiative is targeting people of diverse ages and backgrounds to take up coding

• July 15, 2016 15 Jul'16

  Collaboration is essential in dispelling “deeply ingrained” gender career stereotypes

  O2’s HR director Ann Pickering urges collaboration between government, schools and business to break down tech industry barriers

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  CIO Interview: Elly Resende, CIO, Rio 2016 Olympics

  As Rio de Janeiro gets ready to host the Olympics, Computer Weekly speaks to the man in charge of its IT

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Roland Grunéus, Intrum Justitia

  Roland Grunéus, the CIO of Swedish-founded Intrum Justitia, reveals the credit management services group’s efforts to make better use of data