digital transformation

A collection of 39 posts

NATO

NATO to boost tech adoption – sees cyber, space, subsea as priorities

Alliance announces its new "Integrated Cyber Defence Centre" -- and is procuring extensively for a range of software and services as it works on projects like a new "MSaaS".

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Citigroup

Citi slashes 110 applications, overhauls backups: Next up...

CIO

Pepsi’s Seth Cohen to take over as Global CIO at P&G as Vittorio Cretella announces his retirement

"The reputation of the team and the digital capabilities that Procter & Gamble has developed under Vittorio Cretella is world class. I’m excited to join such a great organization to carry that momentum forward..."

HMRC

Digital dinosaur? HMRC slammed over “extraordinary” tech failings

“Digitisation is only a solution if it works for the users… HMRC are failing the taxpayer population."

utilities

National Grid eyes £50 million service desk, digital workforce overhaul, as changes loom

A UK net zero target and fossil fuel vehicle ban are likely to result in as many as 1,600 connections to the grid each day. Current application processes are inadequate.

CIO

IT’s inspiration must be astronauts, those champions of innovation and exploration

If you think the past five years you spent rebuilding your entire IT stack means you can now relax, think again, says former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker.

job of the week

Job of the Week: Head of IT Transformation, Allianz

Allianz more broadly has successfully ditched mainframe-based core IT applications for x67 servers with Linux operating systems.

Interviews

The Big Interview: Very Group Chief Data Officer, Steven Pimblett

"If you get a good grip on that, happy customers, happy shareholders. If you get it wrong, you are sat on millions of pounds-worth of stock in a warehouse that you have to write off..."

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Citi

Citi appoints co-CIOs, as CEO says deep restructuring will make “some of our people very uncomfortable”

"We will focus on simplifying how we work"

Opinion

For IT Project Success, Consider The Wider Competition, not Just Today’s Fixture...

"One reason we have become so short-term focused is Agile and how easy it makes it to spin projects up in the cloud..."

digital transformation

E-stonia: How the Baltic minnow became a tech powerhouse

Automatically generated government services? 0% tax on reinvested profits? The most unicorns per capita in Europe? Estonia's a technology powerhouse in the Baltics. Lara Olszowska went to find out how it did it...

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aviation

Flights chaos: UK airspace's legacy tech challenges mount

A similar earlier incident was blamed on software from the 1990s...

telecoms

Google Cloud General Manager takes over as Telenor CTO

Amol Phadke joins the global telecom after three years at Google

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CEO

Amidst job cut plans and digital transformation, BT appoints its first female CEO

Citigroup

Citi’s tech spend hits $3 billion in Q2, as CFO highlights in-sourcing efforts

Citigroup spent the equivalent to some $50 million on technology every single working day over the past quarter..

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CIO Featured

Q&A: NATO's first CIO Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer on priorities and progress

"NATO finds the organically grown ‘IT garden’ in need of some pruning, cleanup, and restructuring. My focus is to pivot to a centrally anchored Enterprise Architecture..."

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public sector

Government's Big Beasts join forces in £1 billion ERP "Synergy Programme"

The four departments employ 250,000 end users, over half the entire civil service, and the programme, which aims to separate technology from service centres, is one of HMG’s most ambitious...

ERP

Botched ERP migration costs CEO his job, company €25m

Drinks spilled at Bulmers cider owner...

Cloud

Citi adds 8,000 tech staff, hikes IT spending 12%

Citigroup has added 8,000 people in its technology function over the past 12 months as it ramps up an ambitious digital transformation programme, hiking IT spending by 12% in Q1 2023 and slashing app numbers. Recent successes include the retirement of 20 trading platforms to consolidate around one, an

Enterprise IT

Unilever needs to “stop shackling employees, stop the corporate gobbledygook”

Analysts get blunt, whilst Global CIO eyes digital transformation

Enterprise IT

Digital policy veteran Jerry Fishenden: We need our "digital mojo" back

"I want to stimulate debate about how we can rediscover and re-energise" digital ambitions

Enterprise IT

‘29 systems to order boots’ – MOD warned on digital strategy hurdles

“The high level of support may help the MoD achieve more fundamental change this time."

Enterprise IT

Deutsche Bank turns to a known quantity as digital shakeup continues

Deutsche Bank has extended a contract with Kyndryl (previously IBM Infrastructure Services) to run its continental European core banking and mission critical IT infrastructures, in what the two described as one of the “largest and longest-running vendor contracts in the financial industry” at nearly 20 years together. Kyndryl will also

Enterprise IT

Natwest appoints Scott Marcar as new Group CIO, amid £3b digita drive

Incoming Group CIO joins from Deutsche Bank.

Featured

Credit Suisse seeks salvation in digital transformation

100,000 servers, 90,000 workstations, 37,000 relational databases, 3,000 apps...