IDC's ANZ CIO Annual survey

Run annually, IDC's ANZ CIO Annual survey (formerly Forecast for Management Survey) is a barometer of business priorities, technology deployment plans and IT spending expectations of CIOs and IT Managers across Australia and New Zealand and across all industry sectors. IDC asks approximately 300 CIOs about their ICT related strategies and preferences for the coming 24 months, and how they expect developing trends and external factors such as social networking and the development of the NBN to impact their business and ICT decisions.

Transformation for Business Growth

Now is the time for CIOs and their senior teams to take the lead on transforming their enterprises. CEOs are expecting their IT organisations to not just serve as a key pivot point for business change, but to drive game-changing strategy. These transformation moves are happening across many industries, from mid-sized corporations to the largest businesses in the world. In this presentation, our CIO presenter will give examples of how information technology is transforming the business and elaborate on the role CIOs play in future business success.

The Future of Mobility and Collaboration in the Cloud

As organisations adjust to a post-PC world, 2012 is proving to be the year the mobile enterprise truly emerges. Today’s CIOs face intense pressures as they embrace this shift and explore new technologies and services enabled by cloud computing, particularly in “BYOD” trend of user-owned consumer devices. This transition creates challenges for IT departments struggling to manage more applications and devices than ever before. Yet there is a long-term upside in significantly reduced costs and a role for IT that is inherently more strategic and dynamic. Learn how mobility is shaping the next frontier for cloud computing in the enterprise, and why CIOs must meet employee demands for simple, intuitive experiences while also supporting security and integration needs.

Taking a Holistic Approach to Mobile Security

Consumerisation of IT and the “Bring Your Own Device” phenomenon continues to drive enterprise smartphone and tablet adoption. The benefits of a mobile workforce may be many but they also carry some notable risks to company networks and data: Hackers and viruses are growing in sophistication. Well-intentioned employees unknowingly download malicious apps. Companies are still losing data through innocuous practices such as putting confidential documents in unsecured cloud-based systems. For all these reasons, security must be implemented at the application level -- not just the device level. Traditional mobile device management solutions only address part of the issue—the device—yet today’s perilous environment calls for a more holistic approach to mobile security. This will highlight essential best practices for mobile security and bring you up to speed on the latest in data loss prevention.

Taking Business Relationships to the Next Level

In order for IT to become a business influencer and game changer, the technology organization must transcend its “service provider” relationship with stakeholders and become a trusted business peer and partner. The task of guiding that relationship journey falls to the CIO and the senior IT leadership team. In this panel discussion run by our CIO Executive Council you'll hear directly from a panel of IT leaders about their own challenges, roadblocks and successes and explore the panel’s ideas and identify further best practices.

The Convergence of Innovation, IT and Business Strategy

Innovation can drive a company forward if the senior leadership team knows how to lead the charge. In this address, a prominent Australian CIO will talk about how an executive team can best position IT as a strategic and highly-valued business partner. This IT leader will discuss the vital role that an enterprise roadmap plays in the IT/business partnership.

Discovering Your Leadership Brand: The CIO as Business Strategist

When CIOs think like business strategists, they stop managing technology projects and start seeing products instead. That vision of CIOs “productising” and branding technology work is a driving force in the way top-flight CIOs are leading their IT organisations forward. In this inspiring but practical session, an enterprise CIO will share his out-of-the-box thinking and advice on everything from IT investment management and productising/branding tech initiatives to driving innovation and entrepreneurship within the IT group, generating business value and expanding the business role of the CIO.

Business intelligence: Do a lot with a little.

All organisations can benefit from better information about their business. But how do you achieve better business intelligence without completely overhauling your IT architecture? This practical session will focus on how to get the most from your BI investment to break down information silos, govern and help provide a single source of truth for your company

Strategic Planning

A true ICT strategic plan requires you to know your businesses vision and outlines how to get from point A (current state) to point B (vision) and the resources required to fulfil that mission. It is important to distinguish between a departmental operational plan (focuses on the ‘how’ to manage/implement the resources required) and a true ICT Strategic plan which integrates a ‘big picture’ view of goals with how to achieve them and envisages future trends and their impact on current organisational strategy. This session outlines where the ICT strategic plan belongs in an organi­sation’s strategic framework along with what to include and how to develop it.

The State of Play for the Role of the CIO

With technology advancement finally reaching a level of maturity which can truly deliver business innovations and advantage many claim we are heading into an era that will see a revolution traditional ICT functions. As a result it is more crucial than ever for CIOs, and their organisations to understand the future, and the potential, of the CIO role so as to avoid throwing the baby out with the bath water.

This session we will examine;

• Trends and focus areas identified by CIOs for 2012  - and what that means in the real world

• The fundamental differences between an operational, transformational and business strategic CIO - and why it is essential  your business identifies which they need – including the questions to ask

• The future of the ‘true’ CIO role - and what remains

Vendor Partnering : a model for a true win-win relationship

At a time where IT departments are under more pressure to  be adding value to their business whilst funding becomes increasingly tighter, CIO’s must find ways to ensure maximum value for every dollar they spend on each IT project.

We will take you through an alternative to the traditional supplier engagement methods and propose an approach of vendor Partnering to achieve a true win-win relationship to the benefit of all parties and increasing project success rates

The CIO Executive Council panel session

This is an informal, energetic and interactive session to end the day. The audience will have the opportunity to ask three key CIO panellists the question they would like answered. They may be points raised earlier in the day that could do with further discussion or simply something on which you would like to hear the opinions of your peers.