One of the most important roles MVPs play is prepping customers for the release of major, new Microsoft products. The MVPs' commitment to Microsoft products can play a key role in influencing the buying decisions of many of the company's larger...
Currently Abbey National, Barclays, HBOS, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, NatWest and RBS all make debit cards available to under-18s yet it is the bookies that end up shamed in the newspapers and on television, with little mention of the roles played by banks...
He has now developed a five-year strategic IT business plan to simplify and streamline the infrastructure, repositioned IT as a profitable business unit within FirstGroup and regained board-level trust in the IT department.
A key priority during his time there has been the 'One Unilever' programme to streamline and simplify the organisation. Following a series of management roles at Dixons, Aer Lingus and IBM, Cameron joined Marks & Spencer in 1987 and rose up the...
It seems there are eight other roles - all of which conveniently also have the initials CIO - that the "multi-dimensional" tech chief also has to play. EDS also identifies three roles the CIO needs to avoid: chief inertia officer, chief impediment...
Then there's the 'chief innovation officer', for configuring a neat way of calculating how many staff are wasting away company time on Facebook, 'chief investigative officer', for working out how a member of staff worked a way around the system...