Mark Samuels, Author at TechRepublic

Mark Samuels

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Mark Samuels is a business journalist and editor at IT leadership organisation CIO Connect. He has written for various organisations, including the Economist Intelligence Unit, Guardian Government Computing and Times Higher Education.

Latest from Mark Samuels

Social enterprise

The four stages of creating a successful social enterprise

Learn how to use social media-style tools to help your organisation share information and collaborate more effectively.

Big Data

How to build the social enterprise

How social media-style tools can be used inside organisations to help them share information and collaborate more effectively

CXO

Outsourcing’s five cast-iron rules: Break them at your peril

How do you get the best from outsourcing contracts without them getting the better of you? One CIO who has worked on both sides of the outsourcing divide offers his key tips.

CXO

Future IT trends: Experts pick out their top tips

Spotting tech trends is notoriously difficult but a group of experts have put forward their best predictions for important growth areas for IT.

Tech & Work

Flexible working: Five top tips for bringing it home

For the IT department, successful flexible working is not just about getting the tech right. One CIO with over a decade of developing flexible-working policies offers five key pieces of advice.

CXO

IT skills crisis? How coding and cool can crack it

Some deny its existence. Others can't agree on its nature. But regardless of your viewpoint on the IT skills crisis, a shake-up of certain attitudes could really make a difference.

CXO

BYOD apps: Five ways business can tap into workers’ software

Staff using their own devices for work is the least of the problem. What really matters are the apps that come with BYOD and how organisations capitalise on that software.

CXO

Curtains for CIOs? Five tips to put them back in the spotlight

Some say the rise of the cloud and BYOD will spell the downfall of the CIO. But could these developments in fact strengthen the CIO's hand?

CXO

Does IT need an image makeover? Top tips for winning over the business

IT tends to neglect its own PR - and often only steps up communications with the business when things have already gone wrong. That approach has to change, say a growing number of IT leaders.

Top CIO Paul Coby: Never put innovation before day-to-day operations. Photo: John Lewis

CXO

Want to succeed in IT? Five tips from the top

How to reach the very top of the IT profession may remain a closed book to most technologists, but leading CIO Paul Coby has some simple advice on the best way to get there.

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