Network Rail’s CIO, Susan Cooklin, says her biggest challenge is increasing the business literacy of her IT staff. She said the rail company faces a period of restructuring and budget pressures. 

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. 

This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

Many organizations struggle to carry on the processes of multiple large data integration and SOA projects for reconstructing data flows, ontologies, transformations and more. This paper addresses the obstacles faced when attempting data projects and the strategic plans for overcoming these issues to attain a higher ROI and reduce overall cost. 

Planning is a key component of any IT transformation effort, whether the effort is large or small. This resource discusses top ten tips for successfully planning your IT transformation in an efficient, cost-effective manner. 

Colin Rees, IT Director at Domino’s Pizza explains how a project to move the company data centre into the cloud has transformed its online business. 

To embrace the new instant-on, mobile, interconnected business world, IT organizations need to transform their infrastructure and data centers to support agility. This video series features 10 expert tips for planning your IT transformation. Check out this brief video for tips 7-5. 

Read this white paper to learn more about how this solution can provide assessment for up to 50 of your applications and help you align business and technical goals. 

In today's instant on world, instant results can put your enterprise ahead of the competition. To embrace this new view, enterprise IT must overcome complexity and critical constraints. This resource explores how organizations can meet today’s instant on demands efficiently and cost-effectively. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com discusses the top five unified communications issues for 2012 and how these will affect the transformation and evolution of UC for the better.