CIO Insights

Archive: 04-2012

• Blinkered business created this mess: Don’t expect tech to dig us out

  It’s easy to be blinded by technology and markets, but business mustn’t lose sight of our real purpose and the responsibilities companies have to society.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | April 30, 2012, 8:56 AM PDT

• How Indian outsourcing’s hunt for skills is boosting women and cutting bias

  What started with the Indian services industry’s attempts to attract talent through women-friendly policies now extends to all parts of the equality agenda.

  Posted by Saritha Rai | April 30, 2012, 8:51 AM PDT

• Hardware hassles? Time to make it someone else’s headache

  Too many organisations give little thought to the lifecycle of hardware - from acquisition through deployment to disposal. That lack of management may be costing them more than they realise.

  Posted by Clive Longbottom | April 26, 2012, 7:37 AM PDT

• Seven-inch iPad: How far is Cook’s finger from the launch button?

  Despite the late Steve Jobs’ antipathy to smaller tablets, his successor at Apple might just take a different view.

  Posted by Seb Janacek | April 26, 2012, 7:28 AM PDT

• Why the lone wolf of IT has to come in from the cold

  Consumerisation, the cloud and the internet of things will force tech chiefs to rethink their attitudes.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | April 24, 2012, 4:37 AM PDT

• My laptop is so dumb - why can’t technology give me something smarter?

  The technological advantages we have enjoyed year on year are starting to top out because of our human limitations, but there are some clues about where the next phase will come from.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | April 23, 2012, 3:45 AM PDT

• Cloud computing: Five reasons why it won’t face a backlash

  Even the inexorable rise of outsourcing met with resistance, but IT experts seem to think cloud computing will escape a similar negative reaction.

  Posted by Mark Samuels | April 18, 2012, 1:35 PM PDT

• Five ways CIOs can keep the boss - and the IT team - happy

  Veteran CIO Ian Alderton shares his tips for tech leaders struggling to satisfy the CEO’s demands while keeping the IT from falling over.

  Posted by Nick Heath | April 17, 2012, 3:18 AM PDT

• Tech mind control? It’s not what you might think

  We should keep an open mind on what technology can and can’t do, and focus on benefits. Always looking for science and tech horror stories is in no one’s interest.

  Posted by Peter Cochrane | April 17, 2012, 3:14 AM PDT

• There is no tech skills crisis, say IT chiefs

  There is no widespread skills shortage, says TechRepublic’s CIO Jury - but IT workers with business skills are hard to find.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | April 16, 2012, 9:17 AM PDT