Business Technology

Business leaders tend to have strangely unrealistic expectations about  what constitutes a good IT leader. Keil Hubert suggests that a change of perspective is in order. I wanted to cover something that would resonate with the members of our profession for this week’s piece since this my fiftieth (50th!) column for Lyonsdown. I started the [...]

Cloud computing has made getting people and planes into to the air easier for easyJet. Paul Bray asks their CIO Trevor Didcock the secret to their success. Get ready for take-off… How does easyJet use cloud computing? We were quite an early adopter of cloud. Our first cloud application was a flight-planning system three or four years [...]

CIOs need to help CEOs overcome their reservations and find the right cloud technology partner for a serious, long-term relationship Studies suggest that our top ten fears as human beings include flying, speaking in public, spiders, snakes, water and heights. All of these in their own way can give many of us “normal” beings slightly [...]

The emergence of enterprise cloud software can help implement new business models and drive organisational change Every major business era shifts sources of competitive advantage and displaces sources of power. Advances in social, mobile and cloud technologies have changed the way organisations operate, enabling individuals and loosely governed networks to hold greater influence. This is [...]

A good chief executive recognises the importance of collaborating with the CIO to build a compelling IT vision for the company CIOs and CEOs have traditionally been known to go to war in the boardroom over decisions relating to software projects and IT purchases, but we are part of the fortunate few at Ocado where [...]

It won’t necessarily save your company money but the cloud approach will boost your business in a variety of other ways. Jonathan Watson talks to Ian Cohen, group CIO of Jardine Lloyd Thompson As group CIO of Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT), Ian Cohen is helping the global risk management and insurance broker to make greater [...]