Paving the way to IT success

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Former HBOS CIO Heather Jackson tells Computing how laying out a well-defined career path helped attract a wider range of skills to the bank's IT team

Jackson gave IT workers at HBOS a choice of three routes for advancing their careers Heather Jackson is the former chief information officer (CIO) of HBOS ­ – now part of Lloyds Banking Group, t...

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