CIO
Better communication, better program management needed says watchdog amid concerns that...
“A digital minister asked a CTO to colour code their Word documents…”
Respected Chief Information Officer to call it a day in March
On going from academia to CIO; learning from hyper-growth Cisco (“make sure you are part of the team that is tackling the thorniest, ickiest, hairballiest problems in your organization”), being blown away by the first browser, and ‘build versus buy’
Healthcare project has "undergone a thorough reset since early 2023, focusing on integrating user feedback into system design" after audit found that failures caused patient harm.
The life cycle of tech debt is boom and bust. You buy a lot of equipment, you start moving the cloud; you build tech debt [there too]; then over the next ten years you fund another massive program to get rid of it. We’ve tried to avoid this...
On dumping VMware, 8,000 databases, scepticism about systems integrators and positivity about the cloud…
Intelligence Community CIOs are concerned at cloud and data silos that have "significant mission and cost implications” with hyperscalers acting as "competitors, not teaming partners"
"We all pulled off real magic the first time I was at DARPA... a lot of the magic created through things like Cyber Fast Track (CFT) were due to the direct participation of this community"