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    The Thermocline of Truth 27 June, 2008 11:22:52

    Business consultants and analysts use a range of models and analogies to explain and describe complex concepts in a manner that is understandable by their audience. Sometimes they fail, quite spectacularly, and sometimes there comes along a new way of encapsulating difficult concepts. One such approach is Bruce Webster's "Thermocline of Truth".
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    Tune IT Up 05 June, 2007 11:31:41

    Until a relatively few years ago, business did not think twice about handing off computing requirements to IT, perfectly content to leave all that specialized stuff to the experts. After all, IT was all about providing the tools to support the business, right? Getting what business required was just a matter of getting the techos to do their job - and really, other CXOs did not want to confront any of the bothersome details.
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    Just Human, Would Do 06 November, 2006 13:19:06

    Project managers must move beyond methodology and focus upon the often neglected and hardest part of project management - the people.
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    Learning From Disaster | Part Two - Transparently Obvious 11 November, 2002 11:38:08

    "I am incredibly nervous that we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals," she wrote in a letter to Kenneth Lay, the corporation's chief executive officer. Congressional investigators looking into the company's collapse revealed the letter's existence in February. The letter, said one, is "breathtaking in detail".
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    The 5 Keys to Supply Chain Success 06 September, 2001 11:00:00

    Get it right, and supply chain software can bring order of magnitude savings in the way you plan, make and ship products. Get one piece of it wrong and it will break you.
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    Shark Repellent 17 November, 2000 11:24:57

    How CIOs can help keep their companies out of court and the lawyers at bay.
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    IT's All Happening at the Zoo 09 March, 1999 17:35:26

    Disaster recovery is very much front-of-mind for the person upon whom the zoo is dependent come 1 January 2000.
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    In ITs Own Defence 09 December, 1997 17:15:41

    New Australian Defence Force Corporate Information Program (CIP) CIO Phil Huntley has probably the toughest CIO's job in the country -- and he's not even an IT man by training.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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