Stories about: NRMA

CIO sat down with the head of actuarial studies at the Australian School of Business, University of NSW, Associate Professor John Evans, to talk risk management and the role it plays in the enterprise.

Three federal government departments, four state governments and industry groups will be among the first Australian recipients of Mitsubishi's innovative all-electric car.

Melbourne’s taxi industry was rocked yesterday when a fire at Silver Top Taxi’s city headquarters struck down call centre and computer dispatch systems, leaving cab drivers stranded without job notifications.

Put simply, the effort of sharing knowledge has to be less than the value of participating. People have to see tremendous immediate benefit. They have to see, smell, touch and taste how it's going to improve their work lives.

With Linux and open source software, CSIRO’s mathematical and information sciences division is now able to model information for business benefit without relying on proprietary software, according to principal computer scientist for enterprise data mining Dr Graham Willliams.

Two years in the making, rego.act, Canberra's $6 million vehicle registration and driver licensing project, scales to 600 concurrent users and gives the public 24x7 access to the ACT's Road Transport Authority's business transaction processing.

When IAG merged with another insurance company, CIO David Issa used the new operation's increased scale to reduce costs, creating a virtuous loop that passes the benefits on to customers

By the late 1980s, a major IT project under way at the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFTsc) was beginning to drain significant resources, with the well quickly running dry. The project, according to former SWIFTsc security adviser Erik Guldentops, now a management consultant and executive professor at the Management School of Antwerp University, suffered from "moving goalposts" for requirements, budgets and objectives. Business, IT and audit management began sparring over who should take the blame. Tensions escalated to the point where hostility and friction were close to paralysing the project.

Last year may have been a low-water mark for mergers and acquisitions in Australia but 2003's M&A activity is expected to hot up. The M&A challenge for the CIO is to ensure that due, not dud, diligence is done with regard to information systems.

A generous and growing IT budget? In fact it is a rare organisation over the past couple of years that has had the luxury of having loads of cash to pour into IT. For most, belt-tightening has been the order of the day, and predictions for this year remain just as gloomy.