Stories about: Ernst & Young

With compliance emerging as one of today's most prevalent business issues, multiple corporate functions are beginning to converge in a federated approach to addressing quality, risk and overall compliance management

Canberra-based knowledge economy and social computing evangelist Stephen Collins heard a quote earlier this year that perfectly describes the Enterprise 2.0 dilemma: "If you want to find out what tools your staff are finding most useful at the moment, just go and see what your IT department is blocking"

The CIO of defunct telemarketing firm GoInternet.net was charged with fraud on Friday, September 14, according to the Associated Press. Billy Light was charged with tricking potential customers into paying for web hosting and advertising services they hadn't signed up to buy. GoInternet.net president and CEO Tyron Barr and VP Neal Saferstein were also charged.

To call Clyde Thomas a high performer would be an understatement. As CIO and executive vice president of global operations and technology for eFunds, a $US600 million financial services company, Thomas logs nearly 70 hours a week on the job. He oversees five data centres in the US and two abroad, managing 450 people who serve 6000 users overall. He is responsible for the company's software engineering, call and data centres, and security. He is also building new enterprise projects in China and Eastern Europe

Becoming the chief information security officer (CISO) of a corporation makes you a strategic IT adviser to business management, the chief information officer, and the rest of the information technology staff.

For all the profitability they currently enjoy, Australian companies have a "date with defeat" unless they stop inhibiting innovation and learn how to keep abreast of changes - at macro and micro levels - that are occurring at a faster pace than ever before, according to Jan Kolbusz, a serial entrepreneur who is probably best known to the ICT community for the time he spent as director of technology and operations at Sealcorp.

Google should shoulder some responsibility for remote access to corporate information systems. Its Internet engines suggest it is possible to access anything anywhere anytime. If Google can do it, executives argue, why not rip down the walls on corporate information systems and let employees access them anytime anywhere too?

How to leave the comforts of technology and join "the dark side"

When it comes to planning for the future, what you think you know can be more dangerous to your organization's competitiveness than what you don't know

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches".

Large-scale outsourcing deals promise big savings, but they fail half the time. Here's how to make them work for you