RBS fiasco is a wake-up call to boardrooms of the importance of IT professionals

"Financial services can be thought of as a technology business with a financial domain of expertise."
That quote came from the CIO at investment banking giant JPMorgan Chase, and it's one that senior executives at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would do well to pin on their walls.
...The success of Microsoft Surface depends on who makes the decision to buy

Microsoft's release of its first own-brand tablet computer - Surface - is an example of the dilemma the software giant is facing.
Predictably, Surface has been...
IT professionals must counter fear and ignorance of technology

We all know the good that technology can do, and the benefits it brings for the way we work, live and play. The future growth of the UK economy will be built on IT. Consumers are embracing technology in their everyday lives like never before.
Yet residual fear and ignorance is still...
NHS IT managers finally get their chance to shine

My leader article in Computer Weekly this week should have been easy to write. It's about the new NHS IT strategy, and it would be a simple task to cut and paste pretty much every similar article about