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    Skills Shortage, Business Alignment, Green Issues at the Top of CIO Agendas in 2008 30 November, 2007 14:16:39

    What's on the minds of Australia's banking and finance CIOs as 2008 approaches? Finding skilled and talented people to work for them, effective communication with the other business leaders, and, of course, going green.
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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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    Banker Sours 04 August, 2006 14:56:41

    In early 2002, the then chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), David Murray, set headlines ablaze with a blistering attack on information technology and the IT industry's ability to deliver on its promises.
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    A New Focus: The Innovation Imperative 08 March, 2006 11:55:00

    You still need to keep your eye on the cost-control ball, but the good news is that CEOs expect CIOs to drive business innovation with technology.
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    Heir Supply 09 March, 2005 09:55:16

    Developing one or more strong succession candidates demonstrates that the incumbent CIO is concerned about the continuity of IT leadership and about protecting the company's technology investment.
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    Fightin' Words 08 October, 2003 10:06:26

    Nicholas Carr's provocative essay: IT Doesn't Matter ignited a war of words between IT professionals and their business colleagues, but amid the slanging match serious questions are being raised about IT's ability to deliver competitive advantage.
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    A Happy Medium? 14 July, 2003 12:40:06

    Vendors have pretty much wooed (and won) most of the CIOs at the big end of town. Now they have a new object of their affection: small-to-medium enterprises. But are SMEs ready, willing and able for courtship?
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    Conversion Timetables 11 June, 2003 12:03:17

    Y2K, GST, conversion to euro, B2B . . . It seems CIOs are doomed to expend huge amounts of energy racing to complete work imposed on them by others with unrealistic ideas about deadlines and zero comprehension of the complexities of IT
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    Nothing But Value 07 May, 2003 13:09:59

    Corporations grapple with the shifting nature of competition on a daily basis. Once competitive advantage could be held in your hands - it was a better mousetrap, a richer mine, a faster car
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    From Here to Maturity 11 April, 2003 12:42:17

    When Bob McKinnon stepped into the CIO shoes at CommBank, he was stunned by the lack of maturity around management thinking and operating models for IT within organisations in general. McKinnon, who trained as an accountant, is on a mission to bring more accountability to IT&T.
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    Lingua Banca 05 February, 2003 14:56:36

    The XBRL system for tagging electronic financial information is developing all the hallmarks of a looming international standard. And it will be a standard demanding collaboration between the CIO and the CFO.
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    CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00

    For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders.
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    CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25

    For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders.
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    CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00

    Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00

    Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05

    Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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    TJX Maxx hacker banged up for 30 years 09 January, 2009 11:26:00

    Key figure in the infamous TJX Maxx Wi-Fi hack of 2005 has been sentenced to 30-years in prison by a Turkish court.
    Maksym Yastremskiy, the Ukrainian accused of being a key figure in the infamous TJX Maxx Wi-Fi hack of 2005, has been sentenced to 30-years in prison by a Turkish court.
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    Data breaches rose sharply in 2008, says study 08 January, 2009 08:27:00

    More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.
    More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
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    Rogue SSL certificate exploit puts VeriSign on the spot 07 January, 2009 11:04:00

    Wishes "white hat" researchers had notified VeriSign before public demo.
    Following the success of researchers last week in creating a false SSL certificate based on VeriSign's RapidSSL brand, the company is scrambling to explain how it happened, how it's preventing it from reoccurring, and whether its other SSL certificate-generation services are at risk.
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    With Gaza conflict, cyberattacks come too 05 January, 2009 08:03:00

    Pro-Palestinian hackers have defaced thousands of sites following attacks in Gaza.
    The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet.
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    5 ways to secure your Blackberry 18 December, 2008 12:58:00

    What do Tom Cruise and the McCain campaign have in common? They have both been bitten by the loss of a Blackberry. Mobile expert Dan Hoffman gives advice on how to keep your cherished mobile device safe, even if it's out of your hands
    What do Tom Cruise and the McCain campaign have in common? They have both been bitten by the loss of a Blackberry. Mobile expert Dan Hoffman gives advice on how to keep your cherished mobile device safe, even if it's out of your hands.
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