Enterprise IT
Much-travelled CIO David Ivell is on a mission to help teachers support children with behaviour challenges
"There’s work to keep the IT wheels on but it’s a small part of the role..."
Enterprise IT
This UK government CDIO role has a salary of £54k: We're a little dismayed
A Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) role in a UK government agency is being advertised with the startling low salary for a C-suite position of £54,551-£62,118 – even as it eyes ambitious digital transformation. The CDIO at the Vehicle Certification Agency will be responsible for leading a
Enterprise IT
Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2023
Pressure on CIOs to help leaders reinvent businesses is mounting
Enterprise IT
Southwest Airlines’ $825m writedown is not a salutory tale about technical debt for CIOs
Failure to invest in modernising its IT estate contributed to what Southwest Airlines anticipates will be a colossal $825 million writedown in Q4, after it cancelled 6,700 flights between December 21 to December 31. The airline exposed the losses in an SEC filing ahead of its Q4 earnings, saying
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Job of the Week: CDIO, Thames Valley Police
As The Stack’s article on digital forensics challenges emphasised, both the opportunity for technology to transform policing and the headwinds – restrictive budgets, organisational sclerosis, change fatigue, technology debt, siloes – against it are significant. For those keen on a genuinely meaningful challenge at the highest level, however, there are few
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US Space Systems Command CIO “Colonel K” on shipping good code, transforming culture
"How did she work this fast-paced turnaround of a failing programme?"
Enterprise IT
US Army officially world's biggest Teams user as legacy email killed off
Army 365 migration completed
Enterprise IT
The Stack's Job of the Week: CIO, Colleague Experience, HSBC
HSBC is looking for a Chief Information Officer (CIO) responsible for improving the internal digital experience of the approximately 200,000 staff that use over 800 different “internally facing colleague systems”. The recruitment effort will be welcomed by the banking multinational’s staff who face a challenging and complex environment
Enterprise IT
58% of organisations now employ “borderless” IT staff
19% of IT staff are now "borderless". That causes unique challenges for CIOs even as it does opportunities.
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The Big Interview: SWIFT’s CIO Tom Zschach
SWIFT is building a new platform that will let it run cutting edge analytics on over 10 billion transactions a year using a containerised on-premises infrastructure, federated learning models and unique software-defined memory to help it utilise its existing hardware stack, says Chief Innovation Officer Tom Zschach. The platform will
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The Big Interview: IFCO Systems CIO Kare Heikkila
You will likely have relied on IFCO Systems, even if you haven’t heard of them. The Munich-headquartered company provides reusable packaging for fruit, vegetables, meat, baked goods and beyond for supermarkets like Waitrose and Walmart. Its crates are used in over 2 billion shipments per year. (They typically last
Enterprise IT
US State Department names DoD veteran Dr Kelly Fletcher as CIO
The US Department of State has appointed Dr Kelly Fletcher as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO). She will lead a team of 2,700 IT professionals and oversee $2.5 billion of digital transformation programmes. Among those programmes is a recently signed $1.58 billion contract with Verizon to