European CIOs Announce Latest Plans for Europe

Leading European CIOs met in Germany last week to discuss the future plans for the continent.

Representatives from ArcelorMittal - Patrick Vandenberghe, Group CIO, BP - Michael Terhorst, CIO Europe & Africa FVC, Citi Group - Steve Perry, SVP & Global Head of Application Security, FedEx - Michael Foster, VP IT, EMEA, Rolls-Royce - John Gibbs, Director - IT Operations and Infrastructure and Novartis - Matthias Trabandt, CIO met in Bremen to discuss the bonuses of moving to the Cloud and how best to implement change at the CIO EU summit (hosted by GDS International).

As organisations digest plans to drastically reduce the structural budget across industries in Europe, CIOs share their reactions to the announcements at the CIO IT leaders believe that the current climate presents opportunities to do things differently. Change isn't new, but the pace of change in the next ten years is going to be breathtaking. The balance of power is shifting; emerging markets are becoming leading markets. Boundaries are blurring; companies are relying more than ever on the expertise and resources of a global ecosystem. Technology that was hype is becoming business as usual, paying for IT 'as you go' is becoming the norm. The workforce is changing; new recruits are bringing new ideas, new ways of working and their own state-of-art devices with them.

Keeping the IT environment current has always been a challenge for Corporate IT. Commoditization of IT and the speed at which new things are developing in the consumer space has made this a much bigger issue. CIOs are being challenged to provide flexibility and simplicity at costs which are orders of magnitude lower.

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