What it means to me: ‘It’s not just the IT – we’re transforming work practices, too’

Keith Little is the BBC’s chief information officer, the first to hold such a position in the UK’s biggest broadcasting organisation. As such, he is both the “intelligent customer”, charged with getting best value from the corporation’s slew of technology vendors, and the key individual in what is arguably the BBC’s most important recent development, the Digital Media Initiative.

The three-year DMI programme now under way at the corporation’s huge White City complex in west London, will transform the way the corporation creates, edits, stores and broadcasts material.