The management and staff at The Corporate IT Forum would like to extend our best wishes for Xmas and the New Year.

A recent availability and capacity workshop hosted by the Corporate IT Forum on 9th December was well attended by 22 highly qualified delegates from a broad cross sections of business sectors.

 The following Top Tips were thought to be of particular relevance to CIO’s: [Read more →]

An important tISS information security workshop around eCrime took place in Birmingham this week. It brought together the government’s PCeU (Police Central eCrime Unit) and security chiefs from some of the UK’s leading corporates. It was an important milestone in building a working relationship between business and the authorities responsible for stemming the increasing tide of eCrime.

The workshop identified some important trends in the development of eCrime. [Read more →]

The Real IT Awards for 2009 were presented by ITN Economics Editor, Daisy McAndrew at a glittering ceremony last night. The ceremony was held at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London’s Covent Garden.

The event was a complete sellout with over 200 guests.
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iPhone is presenting some real challenges to corporate IT user organisations. So, this week 26 member organisations participated in 2 online forums on the use of Mobile devices.
From a straw poll 21 of the organisations present deploy RIM blackberry, 8 Windows Mobile while 2 have iPhones in use by small groups of senior business users. 9 organisations have or plan to have iPhone tests/pilots in the next 12 months. Read comments from delegates below:

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The workshop “Embedding enterprise architecture into the corporate culture” held on 22nd October 2009 was attended by 27 delegates from 23 organisations representing the Aerospace, Airline, Central & regional government, Automotive, Construction, Energy supply & distribution, Financial service, FMCG, Law Enforcement, Legal, Petrochemicals, Retail, Transport Infrastructure, Travel sectors. 

The key points to emerge from the discussions were: [Read more →]