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Bureaucracy is killing policing and any chance London’s Met has of giving a CIO a meaningful beat

CIO has analysed the latest report into the use of technology by London's Met police force and yet again finds too many stakeholders are eroding the CIO role and therefore technology outcomes read more

Royal Caribbean CIO Bill Martin says Tibco integration hub the platform for putting the pieces together

Royal Caribbean CIO Bill Martin said that moving to a customer-centric model was the cruise company's focus as he described their IT transformation programme at Tibco's TUCON event in Las Vegas. read more

At a time when we need new thinking, CIOs are finding independent thought hard to find

Organisations need new ideas, yet the UK has a youth unemployment issue and from the conversations we had yesterday, it looks like the policies of Michael Gove and his predecessors will give the UK an innovation problem in the future. read more

GSK CIO Daniel Lebeau says simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

GlaxoSmithKline CIO Daniel Lebeau has described the current climate as the most fantastic time to be a CIO, but warned his peers against the hype associated with conferences, supplier marketing, and BYOD. read more

A&N; Media is part of the Daily Mail and General Trust media company which publishes the tabloid Daily Mail national newspaper as well as regional titles and has a significant interest in the UK’s commercial television sector. read more

As the leading insurer to farmers and rural communities, NFU Mutual must modernise to survive in a competitive market and attract younger customers, says its CIO Tim Mann

A key attribute of leadership is to understand your organisation, its customer base and workforce. No business change project will succeed unless these practices are followed. So as CIO of an insurance firm specialising in farming and rural customers, Tim Mann has learned to adopt a pace of change and a set of suppliers that the community can readily accept. NFU Mutual – the commercial financial services business to the National Farmers Union – was founded in 1910 and is in good shape, so change has had to be careful. read more

CIO Editor in Chief Mark Chillingworth looks back at the 2013 CIO Summit, including presentations by Financial Times CIO Christina Scott, Barclays CIO Anthony Watson, Aston Martin head of IT Simon Callow, LV= CIO Richard Warner and James Thomas, director of ICT at University College London Hospitals, in conversation with columnist Mike Altendorf. read more

Over 100 of the leading CIOs in the UK gather in London to discuss the digital revolution and the challenges they face

A look back at some of the highlights of last month's CIO Summit at the Langham Hotel in London. read more

Microsoft's productivity apps are $22 billion cash cows

As Microsoft Word turns 30 today it is not only the world's most pervasive word-processing applications, it is a cash cow for the company. read more

Smart CIOs will align themselves to the digital, 2.0 version of their organisation

Fellow CIO blogger Ian Cox wrote a very revealing piece about the CIO-CMO relationship. For me the critical take-away was that the IT function needs to respond to the needs of the marketing function or stand by and watch a third party fulfil that role. read more