Stories about: Vigilance

UK organization says agencies must combine PDF/A with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policies

If not planned in a careful way and overseen with vigilance, IT systems can easily grow into complicated beasts that are hard to manage, overly expensive and, ultimately, a roadblock to corporate success. For many firms, simplifying their systems is the key to ensuring that IT is more of a help than a hindrance. Canada-based furniture manufacturer Palliser Furniture has been undertaking its own simplification process for the last three years. CIO Jason Bergeron talks about the difficulties involved and his team's successes.

If not planned in a careful way and overseen with vigilance, IT systems can easily grow into complicated beasts that are hard to manage, overly expensive and, ultimately, a roadblock to corporate success. For many firms, simplifying their systems is the key to ensuring that IT is more of a help than a hindrance. Winnipeg-based furniture manufacturer Palliser Furniture Ltd. has been undertaking its own simplification process for the last three years. CIO Jason Bergeron talks about the difficulties involved and his team's successes.

At lunchtime one day last January, Jill Hein, an Iowa mother of eight, took a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter out of her pantry. She opened the lid. Everything seemed fine. No funny odour. No odd colour

The call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network

Karl Wachs, CIO at global industrial chemical company Celanese Chemical, had a problem and it was making him very nervous. After an 11-month approval process, the board had given him just 21 months to roll 13 SAP systems scattered across five data centres into a single instance of the enterprise software.

How you can groom your best employees to elevate department productivity and status, and ensure strong leadership succession in your management ranks

Tired of justifying your seat at the executive table? Get your peers to stop thinking of the CIO as a service provider and start treating you like a business partner.

Companies on the front lines of the phishing wars share tactics for making their sites spoof-proof and protecting online transactions.

With much of its membership increasingly angry about offshoring, an expert group of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) is developing guidelines for responsible offshoring for both government and business.