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• 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

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Rural payments problems led to 40% increase in costs, says NAO report

  Inappropriate behaviour and too much focus on IT procurement led to rural payments programme costs spiralling to 40% over budget, says National Audit Office report

• 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

  CIO interview: Abhilash Chacko, head of IT commercial, Gatwick Airport

  Airport’s head of IT commercial seeks to abandon old ways of thinking and collaborate with airlines to use technology to improve the passenger experience

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  How to avoid an innovation credibility crash

  Among the innovation challenges a head of IT will face is how to introduce a digital initiative without losing face

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Case study: Tideway uses private cloud to manage London ‘super sewer’ infrastructure

  Infrastructure services director explains why Tideway has opted for a managed, private cloud setup to support sewer project

• 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 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  How to offset Oracle costs when preparing a move to the cloud

  Savvy IT departments can mix and match support contracts as they negotiate with Oracle on a Fusion upgrade

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  How the CIO can get on message

  Microsoft talks of a beautiful experience. Rackspace says it's fanatical about support. Marketing fluff? Or is there a lesson for CIOs?

• 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 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  Fujitsu UK CEO calls for more Stem on TV

  Fujitsu’s UK and Ireland CEO Regina Moran argues for promoting science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects and careers in the mainstream media

• 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 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Microsoft UK datacentre plans win backing of government CTO Liam Maxwell

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell speaks out about the role Whitehall's played in convincing Microsoft and others to open UK datacentres

• November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15

  Communication Workers Union warns subpostmasters of flaw in Post Office Horizon accounting system

  The union that represents Post Office subpostmasters has warned of a problem with the Horizon accounting system at the centre of a long-running dispute

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  A tale of two HPs: Hewlett-Packard splits into two digital businesses

  The two Hewlett-Packard (HP) businesses are both digitally aligned. HP Enterprise is pushing hybrid clouds; HP Inc is taking the road to 3D printing

• 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

  Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits

  The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’

  HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive

• 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 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  German rail and transport group turns to virtual reality in war for talent

  Deutsche Bahn claims to be the first company in Germany to use virtual reality as a recruitment tool

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  Kent signs £23m digital services contract with Agilisys

  Agilisys to manage Kent County Council's digital services and customer contact in a six-year contract

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Google offers free cloud apps to encourage Office 365 users to ditch Microsoft

  Google ups ante in ongoing war to dethrone Microsoft as the enterprise's preferred provider of cloud-based productivity tools

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Philips uses AWS and IoT to deliver healthcare in the home

  Philips plans to make it easier for patients to self-monitor their health using Amazon web services (AWS) cloud and the internet of things (IoT) technologies

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  HMRC VAT rules cut cloud costs by 20% for NHS and government departments

  An HMRC ruling on reclaiming tax on cloud services could drive up the use of off-premise technologies in the public sector

• 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 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  ServiceNow powers Royal Mail multi-sourcing

  As part of its £500m IT transformation, Royal Mail has deployed ServiceNow to manage new suppliers

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  TfL appoints 12 companies for IT systems framework

  Capita, CSC, Atos and CGI are among the firms on TfL’s IT systems framework contract, which is worth between £80m and £95m

• 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 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Travelex rewrites its digital strategy

  Travelex’s digital transformation is based on short-term wins, long-term goals and disruption, according to its chief digital officer, Sean Cornwell

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Tesco decides to keep Dunnhumby after strategic review of business

  Supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped plans to sell analytics arm Dunnhumby after restructuring and analysing its assets

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

  Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

  The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service readies for change as its chief Mike Bracken prepares to leave

  GDS is setting up executive training for senior civil servants and looking to work closely with departments to continue the digital transformation of Whitehall

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Health chief 'should be held to account' for whistleblow errors

  Former nurse and clincial commissioner Bernie Rochford claims unfair dismissal after blowing the whistle on IT problems which put patient care at risk

• 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 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

  Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears

• 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 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia

  Svevia CIO Emil Dahlin transformed the IT of a former Swedish government organisation as it became an independent company

• August 16, 2015 16 Aug'15

  Mobile phone users at risk as hackers bug and track victims

  An investigation by Australian TV show 60 Minutes demonstrates how hackers based thousands of miles away in Germany were able to record the calls of an Australian senator and track his movements

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken – why I quit

  Mike Bracken, the outgoing director of the Government Digital Service, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his departure from Whitehall

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Mike Bracken: I turned down an increase in GDS budget

  Outgoing government digital chief says he rejected the chance of extra funding and that his platform strategy is still on the table

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• 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

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• 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 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mattias Forsberg, Systembolaget

  Systembolaget CIO Mattias Forsberg says IT and business need to have a relationship of co-operation and expects every successful IT project to include some pain

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

  The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Rolls-Royce signs up to supercomputing on-demand from HPC Midlands

  Rolls-Royce is the first company to sign up to a supercomputing brokerage scheme, giving it access to £60m worth of high-performance computing