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Blog: Kundra's "Projects as Stocks" Approach Highlights the Ultimate Role of the CIO 10 March, 2009 12:36:00
US Federal CIO Vivek Kundra treats projects as investments, like stocks. This model provides leadership towards the ultimate destiny of the CIO role - as portfolio investor in business change - provided that everyone bears four things in mind. - +
Blog: 2009 CIO Strategy: Business Productivity will Trump IT Efficiency 09 January, 2009 09:48:00
In 2009, more than ever, the CIO will need to shine as a leader of productivity-led business innovation and change. But she may be under pressure to simply focus on IT efficiencies. She will need to show that a productivity-driven strategy has efficiencies built-in as standard, but that the opposite is not true. - +
Blog: Unlocking the CIO's Strategic Contribution 08 January, 2009 09:30:00
Three independent surveys into the role of the CIO highlight some keys to unlocking the CIO's contribution to corporate strategy. - +
Blog: Live Research: The CIO Role is Reaching its Destiny 29 November, 2008 11:29:00
Nearly a third of CIOs have reached the ultimate destiny of their role, recognised by the Board as a leader of investments in business change. At least, that is, in one remarkable country. - +
Blog: Beyond the Trillion Dollar Bonfire 24 November, 2008 13:54:00
As CIOs and their departments move into their next generation, promising to 'enable' others to achieve their business goals is unlikely to be enough. - +
Blog: It's That Misleading IT Ratio, Again 27 October, 2008 12:14:00
An article from the Financial Times serves to highlight yet again the damaging flaws in the often-repeated ratio of IT maintenance to new IT investment. - +
Blog: The Next Generation of CIO Depends on Which One You Already Are 03 October, 2008 14:13:00
CIOs are in any one of four generations, and a company and their CIO need to generationally match. - +
Blog: Enterprise Architecture: The Model or The People? 25 August, 2008 14:38:00
According to The Economist, in a review of banks' strategies and the credit crunch, ‘what separates the winners and the losers is not models, but management.' Enterprise Architects, take note. - +
Blog: "The Appearance of Change Can Be The Enemy of Real Change" 25 August, 2008 14:33:00
An observation about government politics in The Times yesterday might equally be true of business. However, investing in the appearance of change may be either the friend or enemy of real change... - +
Blog: OK, you're not a 'beard in the basement'. So who are you? 13 August, 2008 15:28:24
Prospective IT employees want a company's culture to value them as business innovators, not 'beards in the basement'. Given the preconceptions many cultures have about IT people, you'll need to be clear about your strategy. - +
Blog: It's the company's investment culture. Always was. 01 August, 2008 14:44:36
As people now move on from wondering about the value of IT, the way clears for the question that everyone has been implicitly asking all along. That question, and its answer, radically enhances the CIO's role as a corporate strategist and leader of change.
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CIO Industry Insight Podcast #9 Scott Dawes, VP of Applications Business Unit, Oracle ANZ 03 March, 2010 10:26:28
CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers catches up with Scott Dawes, VP of Oracle's Applications Business Unit in A/NZ, about the role supply chain and logistics software plays in keeping global businesses moving. - +
CIO Industry Insight Podcast #8: Michael Sentonas, Chief Technology Officer for McAfee Australia 25 February, 2010 11:26:51
CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with McAfee Australia CTO Michael Sentonas about the findings of McAfee's latest critical infrastructure protection report, In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the age of Cyberwar as well as the new security threats CIOs face in today's Web 2.0 world. - +
CIO Industry Insight Podcast #7: Peter Thomas, Senior Director for Exadata Solutions & Architecture, Oracle ANZ 17 February, 2010 10:01:02
CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with Peter Thomas, Oracle's Senior Director for Exadata Solutions and Architecture, about the company's latest high-end database and storage system. - +
CIO Industry Insight Podcast #6: Brenton Smith, Managing Director, CA (ANZ) 26 October, 2009 12:47:52
CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers talks with Brenton Smith, CA's managing director in Australia and New Zealand, about how the software multinational coped with the global economic downturn, it's Mainframe 2.0 initiative and the company plans for cloud computing. - +
CIO Live Podcast #88: Mark Toomey, author of Waltzing with the Elephant: A Comprehensive Guide to Directing and Controlling Information Technology 24 September, 2009 11:55:25
CIO Australia Editor Matt Rodgers interviews Mark Toomey, author of "Waltzing with the Elephant: A Comprehensive Guide to Directing and Controlling Information Technology". Framed around the international standard ISO/IEC 38500, Waltzing with the Elephant explains what IT governance is, how it fits into the overall regime of corporate governance and IT service management and also defines the characteristics that organisations should exhibit when they are truly effective in governing their use of IT.
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Facebook users targeted in massive spam run 19 March, 2010 06:50:00
The messages try to get users to dowload a malicious attachmentFacebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee. - +
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For biometric access systems, the devil is in the details. Here are implementation strategies from users and analysts.Considering a biometric access system? Experts offer practical advice in these dos and don'ts. - +
Seven Firefox Plug-ins That Improve Online Privacy 18 March, 2010 06:18:00
It does help the more nerdy among us ascertain what's going on under the hood of a websiteAs strange as it might sound, there are times when I wish for the old days of the Internet circa the early 1990's. The days of Mosaic and Lynx, where there was no Flash, no Javascript and no Java. A simpler time where protecting your privacy and security wasn't as essential as it is today. - +
Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules 18 March, 2010 05:04:00
The changes would make it more difficult for criminals to register under false details for domain namesLaw enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system. - +
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The company hopes to make money by selling services to small companiesWep Solutions, an Indian security software and services startup, is offering its unified threat management appliance software free to small businesses around the world.
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