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Millions of passengers rely on the London Underground every day. It is one of the busiest subways in the world and technology plays a crucial role in keeping people moving.

In this podcast Cliff Saran speaks to Adrian Davey, head of IT at Tube Lines, the company which manages the Northern, Jubilee and Piccadilly Lines on the London Underground, to find out how Tube Lines uses cutting edge technology to keep everything running smoothly.

Cliff Saran speaks to three experts in Business Process Management (BPM). According to analyst group Gartner, IT directors and CIOs will take more responsibility for business processes over the next five years. There is a growing number of products IT directors can implement for automating business processes in order to improve operational efficiency. Janelle Hill of Gartner feels BPM is the next big thing. Paul Tuffs of Orange talks about his experiences of working on a BPM project and BEA's Martin Percival discusses how BPM is being used in the UK.

Where does a business begin if it wants to install unified communications? How should go about doing it? And how can a network manager make the career jump to CTO?

Deputy Technology Editor John-Paul Kamath talks to Nortel’s CTO John Roese who discusses how the growing importance of IP networks is shaping future business trends.

At the Construction Computing Event held in London’s Emirates Stadium, Warwick Ashford interviews Neill Pawsey, strategic alliance manager of Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT (COMIT).

Pfizer is rolling out wide area network optimisation technology for a series of 30-day trials across sites in India, Costa Rica, South Africa, Romania and the US. The numbers of users at these sites range from 75 to 10,000. Feedback from end-users has been key.

In this podcast, based on a presentation at the Burton Group Catalyst conference in October, Ron Rapp, associate director in Pfizer's worldwide technology engineering division discusses the approach the company has taken.

As in any successful business, Swedish construction company Skanska needs to balance quality with the need to maintain profitability. At the same time, Skanska is addressing environmental issues and becoming safety conscious.

In this interview Peter Thomson, chief information officer of Skanska, discusses how his IT strategy helps the company to minimise the environmental impact of new buildings and to improve safety.

IT security is a problem that won’t go away. No matter what chief information officers and IT directors do, there always seems to be a security problem.

In this interview Martin Sadler, director of HP’s Trusted Systems Lab discusses how much should chief information officers and IT directors be expected to spend and how much security is enough. Martin also reveals some of the work the Trusted Systems Lab is doing to secure the desktop PC environment.

In this interview Martin Smith, director of group technology and innovation at Manchester Airports Group discusses how his IT strategy is aligned to business needs. The airport plays a critical role in the prosperity of the North West of the UK and . He is joined by Michael Earl, a professor at Oxford Said Business School and Mark McDonald, a vice president in Gartner’s Executive Programs (EXP), who quiz Martin on how the 240 companies that operate at Manchester airport are able to work together to improve customer service and achieve greater levels of efficiencies.

Technology reporter JP Kamath talks software development with IBM’s director at the Hursley laboratory , Dr Graham Spittle.

Research at Hursley is critical to companies around the world and the labs are a hotbed for UK IT graduates looking to further a career in software design.

What new software is being developed at the labs and how will businesses put this to task? What role will technologies such as Second Life play? And, how should IT graduates steer a career in software development?

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Almost 50% of IT outsourcing projects fail. In this interview Cliff Saran speaks to Paul Michaels, senior consultant at Metri Measurement Consulting, who shares some of his experiences of why so many IT outsourcing projects fail. Paul believes there are a number of warning signs IT directors and CIOs should check on a regular basis. These metrics should be used as a dashboard to enable the CIO to work with the outsourcer in order to guide the project through difficult and easier times.