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    IT Governance Tips: Help to Improve Executive Buy-In 27 May, 2008 11:52:46

    Beset by funding and other resource challenges? IT governance, if done right, will improve your reputation, increase funding and help your IT systems impact strategic business operations
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    5 Tips on IT Alignment That Can Generate Profit 15 April, 2008 11:17:05

    IT governance is not IT alignment. This primer on alignment can help you recognize the difference and create increased business value
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    Federal government announces technology research grants 17 March, 2008 12:22:03

    The federal government today announced more than $5.9 million in funding for counter-terrorism science and technology research as part of the Office of National Security's, Research Support for Counter-Terrorism (RSCT) program.
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    10 Reasons Why You Should Get an MBA 23 January, 2008 11:47:50

    An MBA education provides communication skills and training in pragmatic, analytical thinking, argues Thomas MacKay
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    Centrelink sites IT shop in Adelaide 22 August, 2006 11:26:06

    Canberra's shortage of IT skills is good news for Adelaide where Centrelink will build its new IT shop and have access to graduates from the city's three universities.
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    RFID: Revolution in Logistics or BigBrother Technology? 28 August, 2005 14:47:59

    Radio Frequency Identification has the potential to revolutionize logistics, but first it must overcome its reputation as an intrusive technology.
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    Sensible behaviours for nonsensical data 07 December, 2004 13:24:18

    Data quality is critical to the success of any enterprise application. Systems from business intelligence to customer relationship management are destined to fail without high-quality data - the "garbage in, garbage out" theory
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    IT Gets Organized: Introducing the Office of the CIO 10 September, 2004 13:51:21

    An Office of the CIO can improve IT management and free up the CIO. But it’s only as good as the deputies who fill the slots
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    SA Joins High-Performance Computing Fraternity 01 July, 2003 15:00:19

    South Australia’s fledgling biotechnology industry has received the first of two shots in the arm with the commissioning of Hydra, a $1.7 million system that is Australia’s third-largest supercomputer and the largest of its type.
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    Getting the Big Guns Onside 07 May, 2003 12:19:11

    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.
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    Human Error 22 May, 2000 10:31:34

    Your ability to think like a politician and a psychologist can mean the difference between success and failure in the biggest project of your career
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2008 CIO Summit

19th August, 2008 Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney Developed in partnership with CIO Magazine, IDC, INTEP and the CIO Executive Council.

The world of the CIO is extremely complex and diverse. Multiple priorities demand attention and decisions are needed instantly. Individual teams need to be driven towards common goals, and businesses strive to become more mobile, agile and responsive. For CIOs, the challenge never ends.

Every year the CIO Summit identifies what is top of mind for CIOs across Australia and New Zealand, and offers insight for CIO benchmarking and vendor strategic planning alike.

Recent IDC research shows that over 59% of CIO's believe that 'to achieve their business strategies, technology should be used more aggressively than today.'

Join us on August 19th to discover how this is possible with the latest technologies including Virtualisation, Web 2.0, IP Surveillance and Software as a Service (Saas).

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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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    Information security governance: Centralized vs. distributed 05 September, 2008 10:15:00

    Should security policies, procedures and processes be managed within a central body, or distributed at an individual level? You need to find the middle ground.
    The management of information risk has become a significant topic for all organizations, small and large alike. But for the large, multi-divisional organization, it poses the additional challenge of determining how to deploy an information security governance program among what are often disparate business units. Should the policies, procedures, and processes that define the program be developed and managed within a central, corporate body? Or perhaps responsibility would be better placed at the individual unit level? Is there a workable middle-ground?
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    DNS error brings Sophos antivirus updates to a halt 05 September, 2008 13:40:00

    Optus, Internode and Equinix affected among others.
    A sporadic Domain Name Server (DNS) error has blocked Sophos anti-virus updates around the world.
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    Ouch! Security pros' worst mistakes 04 September, 2008 08:05:00

    We've all done regrettable things on the job, but does any valuable wisdom come of it? Four security pros candidly explain their biggest blunders and what they learned in the process
    It was a mistake so bad the person who made it asked that his name and company not be mentioned here. Let's call him Frank.
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    Security ROI: Fact or Fiction? 03 September, 2008 08:32:00

    Bruce Schneier says ROI is a big deal in business, but it's a misnomer in security. Make sure your financial calculations are based on good data and sound methodologies.
    Return on investment, or ROI, is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive return on investment, and a good one at that, in order to be viable.
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    Information Security and the Importance of Context 01 September, 2008 10:00:00

    Those entrusted with information security must raise their contextual awareness
    When the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was first created, it created a sudden need for tens of thousands of screeners. Getting a job as an airport screener was a pretty easy process. It seemed as though if you had a pulse, you were in. Jump forward to 2008 and becoming a screener is a bit harder as the TSA has instituted background checks, has upped the educational requirement to include a high school diploma or GED, and added other significant requirements.
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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
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