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".
Citigroup
Citi slashes 110 applications, overhauls backups: Next up...
Remediating data is a major 2024 priority
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..."
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...
aviation
Flights chaos: UK airspace's legacy tech challenges mount
A similar earlier incident was blamed on software from the 1990s...