My own experience bears out that of others, that budgets are the only realistic obstacle to technical innovation& It must be nice to work in a department like HR, where hundreds of people do nothing but shuffle paper to justify their existence...
But with IT budgets still tight, how can companies hope to comply with the new legislation, especially within specified deadlines? The recent rise in the amount of government regulation of corporations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the US and Basel II...
Chris Ford, IT director, Severn Trent Water IT budgets are set to increase in 2007 on the back of technology refreshes and mobile working projects, according to UK CIOs. Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury IT user panel this week said...
More importantly, on the demand side, departments and agencies will be left with little choice but to consider offshore with a need to deliver more for less due to reducing or limited budgets. But there are departments and agencies that have chosen...
In his speech, the prime minister also said CPNI will begin to provide a higher level of protection to UK organisations that oversee essential systems and services, such as telecommunications and the water supply.
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