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
20 Mar 2026
Scotland launches five-year AI strategy
Scottish deputy first minister says the country aims to become a leader in AI through responsibly harnessing the economic and social benefits of the technology Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2026
Interview: Jem Walters, CTO, Vanquis
Having come into the company through the acquisition of his money-saving app, the IT chief is bringing an agile and startup culture to the 146-year-old financial services firm 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