We need more visionary IT leaders

When IT leaders explain their reasons for not moving to a new technology, it is almost always due to immediate or short-term perceived problems.
Should you move to the cloud? Security is a concern. Should you overhaul your information security? Ooh, too risky, what if we get hit by...
Time to invest in the future – and the future is technology, not banks

After the latest banking industry scandal, it is surely time for the government to invest in the future - and that future is surely technology.
For the last 25 years, since Margaret Thatcher deregulated the City of London in the so-called Big Bang, government industrial policy has...
Could the cashless economy finally be here?

Since the first stirrings of the dot com boom, we have been told that cash is on its way out, and electronic money is around the corner. Next week, on 14 February, is the fifth anniversary of the switch to chip-and-PIN cards in the UK - the only really significant step that has been taken...
Data security is more than just an IT problem

There was a coincidental, but important, thread running through the articles in this week's issue of Computer Weekly magazine. Take a look: