British boadrooms 'not getting' IT, CIOs 'locked in vendor thinking'

Danny Palmer
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Saul Klein, senior partner at Index Ventures, says some CIOs are too close to vendors

The boardrooms of big British companies are "not getting tech" while CIOs and CTOs are "locked into an old world of vendor thinking", both of which combined mean businesses are very much in danger ...

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