telecoms
Google Cloud General Manager takes over as Telenor CTO
Amol Phadke joins the global telecom after three years at Google
CEO
Amidst job cut plans and digital transformation, BT appoints its first female CEO
The Telia CEO will start her term at BT at the end of January 2024
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..
CIO
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..."
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.