CW500 and IT leadership skills
The most successful IT managers have developed beyond the core technology skills and exhibit great interpersonal and communication skills to make them effective IT leaders. We talk to today's CIOs and IT directors, and to members of our CW500 Club of senior IT professionals, to learn from their experiences and examine how you can improve and develop your IT leadership skills.
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News
18 Feb 2025
Meta’s planned subsea cable will exceed circumference of Earth and support AI innovation
Meta’s planned 50,000 km subsea cable will be the world’s longest and connect the five major continents Continue Reading
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E-Zine
07 Dec 2023
CW EMEA: Prepare for cyber war
When the war between Hamas and Israel began in October, cyber security professionals and major government and private organisations braced for an inevitable accompanying online war. In this issue of CW EMEA, we outline cyber war, patterns of threat activity, and find out what security teams can do to protect their organisations. We also look at Finland’s advances in quantum computing, how Belgian researchers have developed technology to help datacentres process data faster, and the secrets of KPN’s successful business transformation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2011
Government identity banks start to take shape
Here's a story that's going to run and run - and one I predict will start to make national news headlines once its significance sinks in to the consumer press. As part of its plans to create a ... Continue Reading
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Tip
03 Jun 2011
Design change management procedure in five easy steps
Clear-cut change management procedure is essential for success of any enterprise-wide IT deployment. Follow these simple steps to get it perfectly right. Continue Reading
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News
26 May 2011
CIO interview: NHS IT chief Christine Connelly on the National Programme for IT
As director general for informatics at the Department of Health, Christine Connelly has had one of the least enviable jobs in public sector IT: defending the much- maligned NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). But despite a fiercely critical review in a recent National Audit Office report and at a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting, she told Computer Weekly she stands by the controversial £11.4bn programme. Continue Reading
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News
26 Apr 2011
Technology boosts savings at WHSmith
Retailer WHSmith says it has delivered savings thanks to IT improvements and tight cost management. Continue Reading
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Tip
26 Apr 2011
Implement job rotation for team motivation, productivity
Indian CXOs are increasingly experimenting with job rotation for team motivation and productivity. Find out why job rotation helps, and how M&M practices it. Continue Reading
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Tip
21 Apr 2011
5 non-monetary rewards for your IT teams
Non-monetary rewards are an effective way to motivate employees. Learn five non-monetary rewards that CIOs can make use of to motivate their teams. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Apr 2011
The start of an era
The article below is the editorial leader column from the last ever printed issue of Computer Weekly magazine. If you like nostalgia, you may want to treasure the magazine you hold in your hands ... Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Apr 2011
The power of ICT and its multiplier effect
Meet Michael Hedley, National Policy Manager for the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA). Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Mar 2011
Dear Phil Pavitt, this one is for you
How often do you, as an IT leader, tell people in other parts of the business what you have achieved? For many IT folk, that sort of self-promotion doesn't always come naturally - and often that ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2011
Announcing the CW500 Club online community
Computer Weekly is pleased to announce the launch of the CW500 Club online community Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Mar 2011
When is the new government IT strategy due?
There's plenty of rumour and speculation doing the rounds over the timing and contents of the imminent government IT strategy, due to be released anytime soon by the Cabinet Office. I've been told ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Jan 2011
Bala retires from CIO role
S R Balasubramanian has retired from the role of CIO at Godfrey Phillips, but continues his professional activities through consultancy Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Jan 2011
Exit clause in SLAs: 7 key pointers
An exit clause is a useful tool to close a deal when any agreed and important terms of a service contract are dishonored. Here are seven points to include in an exit clause. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Dec 2010
Will John Suffolk be the last government CIO?
Government CIO John Suffolk effectively leaves his post at the end of this month - although I understand that he will still be on the public payroll until the end of March next year - but there ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Sep 2010
Stuxnet "most likely" to have originated from Israel
The cyber security world is alive with gossip about Stuxnet. The virus has been described as one of the most sophisticated yet created, containing an unprecedented four zero-day vulnerabilities in ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Sep 2010
"Up to now the use of IT in the NHS has not been a success story"
Many thanks to Chris Potts for this wonderfully timely and ironic spot from the annals of Department of Health history. Click here to read a document published in 1998 by the Labour government, ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Aug 2010
Don't buy cloud computing hype: Business model will evaporate
Cloud computing will not solve the data center industry's problems. Thanks to compliance issues, cloud computing will never get off the ground for commercially viable companies, and cloud providers will evaporate. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 May 2010
Goodbye ID cards - is it time to say hello to identity banks?
As expected, the new government has scrapped the controversial and unwieldy identity cards project created as a flagship of Labour policy. Labour's problem was that it never properly explained why ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Feb 2010
What Larry wants, Larry gets: what next for acquisitive Oracle?
Several years ago, I sat next to then-Oracle UK managing director Ian Smith at an industry event. At the time, the software giant was pursuing an aggressive and increasingly contentious purchase of ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Jan 2008
Social networking for business pros
Social networking sites have created a venue for socialising, but is this venue a good locale for business users to network and generate new business leads? Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2007
Training budgets proving hard to justify without business metrics
Surveys show most companies are still complacent about green computing. But ActewAGL CIO Carsten Larsen is one of a growing number of CIOs taking up the call to make sustainable ICT a bigger priority. Continue Reading
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News
26 Oct 2006
IT greats: Top 10 greatest IT people
For every world-famous name with a world famous fortune – think Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael Dell – there are hundreds of other individuals who have moved the IT industry and its technology inexorably forward Continue Reading