Stories about: Mindshare

Businesses considering Android as a corporate handset standard should consider the decision carefully, because it may prove hard to justify later on.

"We have come into real contention [for mindshare] in the enterprise," said Tim O'Reilly, CEO at O'Reilly Media, in his keynote address at OSCON, last week's Open Source convention in the US. "So we should be patting ourselves on the back, right? I'm not so sure."

I think CIOs are justifiably nervous about their staffs. It was good to see a few newbies in Society for Information Management's (SIM) 2007 Top "10" IT Management Concerns , findings from their 2007 trends survey. Notably new to the top 10 and weighing in at #3: the need to 'build business skills in IT.' That old chestnut, 'IT and business alignment' was still there, down from #1 to #2 (tackled elsewhere by Chris Potts) and moving up to #1 from second place: 'attracting, developing and retaining IT professionals', which seized mindshare of nearly 51% of responders. Other concerns new on the list: reducing the cost of doing business, improving IT quality, managing change, making better use of information, and the evolving CIO leadership role.

Ian Murdock says he drew a lot of puzzled looks from his colleagues in the Linux community when he joined Sun Microsystems in its newly created position of chief operating platforms officer. "What's a Linux guy doing at Sun?" he was asked.

The newly appointed IT and Communications Minister Helen Coonan plans to undertake widespread consultation with industry before making any firm policy decisions.

The notion of planning fell out of fashion about two years ago - after all, business models and technologies were shifting at such speed, how could you plan anything effectively? In the past six months there's been a rebirth of interest in how you can plan effectively in an e-world.

After decades of hard slog, the value of information technology is finally pulling into focus for Australian boardrooms. However, CEO's and company directors still prefer to keep their IT staff at arm's length. Beverley Head reports on the scratchy relationship which persists between the CEO and the CIO.

Freeware promises to give CIOs control over their computer systems' destiny.Should you join the revolution?

On the Internet, no one can hear you scream. So scream a little louder. Simply building new systems and hoping your good reputation will carry you through is no guarantee of success.