Stories about: KPMG

The monarch was dead. Demoralized and shaken, the organization spent time mourning for a popular and high-profile CIO who had reigned for many years. Then, with time starting to dull the pain, the young princes began sharpening their knives, sensing their best opportunity in years to seize power

In this episode of CIO Live we discuss how to approach secure application development with Rob Goldberg, partner of the IT advisory division for audit and advisory firm KPMG. We also analyze the commoditization of security products and look at a tangible method for examining the ROI of security.

In this episode of CIO Live Rob Goldberg, partner of the IT advisory division for audit and advisory firm KPMG, discusses how enterprise security product integration is the weakest link at your organization and how this affects your customers.

As long as they're meeting their regulatory reporting deadlines, most enterprises don't think a lot about closing their books more quickly.

Maybe they should start.

Increasingly, the speed with which an organization closes its books and reports its financial results is being looked at by practitioners, analysts and investors as a defining metric for evaluating whether the organization possesses the best possible processes and enabling technologies. And it turns out that many companies don't, even those making huge IT investments and supporting equally large IT departments.

CIOs have been cutting costs for years - and not seeing those savings coming back to IT. That's why you have to learn to cut strategically.

Human Services Minister Joe Hockey has vigorously defended the virtues of the federal government's planned smartcard, saying the project's cost will be controlled and people's privacy will not be compromised.

Details surrounding costing for the federal government's access card initiative remain elusive, but last week's Senate Estimates hearings has revealed that consultancy fees will certainly top $2 million.

Shadow Minister for Human Services Kelvin Thomson has labelled the $1.1 billion costing for the federal government's smartcard rollout as "fictional".

Federal Cabinet has approved the introduction of an Australian identity card amid claims it could be a $5 billion noose for the government.

Even though the Australian government may have an effective IT security framework, a recent report shows that certain government agencies are not living up to it, highlighting a great concern.

This week: Mark Tims, a partner with KPMG's IT Project Advisory Group, discusses why today's project governance practices tend to focus on making committments but not keeping them -- and what CIOs can do about it.