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Avram Grant was ousted at Chelsea after taking the club to within an ace of the Premiership and Champions League so perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised to hear that VMware is parting company with its CEO despite having become the most successful business technology startup of the last 10 years.

Getting closer to customers seems like a no-brainer - but it may not make you any more profitable than you were before. The key is to take it slow

Unfettered globalization is not creating the wealth and global stability its supporters claim. Rather, the new world economic system makes first-world economies more vulnerable to terrorism, war and natural disasters. CIOs have a role to play in protecting these fragile supply chains

Not content with the announcement of a $50million IT services and infrastructure deal with Woodside Energy, fledgling IT services outsourcer Hewlett-Packard (HP) has revealed it will gun hard for the public sector in the wake of the break up of large cluster agreements.

SOAs promise to speed development and decrease integration time and effort - but only if you implement them correctly

Six Sigma is a defect reduction methodology that forces organisations to focus on the quality of the customer experience. And it can most definitely be applied to IT

Now that we’re on the other side of the silly season, most businesspeople are feeling refreshed and renewed after their holiday break. Even though we’re now a month into 2004, I’d like to share some insights in the form of New Year’s resolutions.

In its latest move to protect critical infrastructure, the federal government yesterday launched a secure Web site to report information security attacks, but the initiative has raised the ire of Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCert) which has spent the last two years establishing a national reporting and alert system with a broad membership base.

Corporations grapple with the shifting nature of competition on a daily basis. Once competitive advantage could be held in your hands - it was a better mousetrap, a richer mine, a faster car

It's been a cause of simmering discontent in many businesses for some considerable time. St George CIO John Loebenstein was only the most recent to manifest the complaint, when he delivered what Computerworld called "a peppery wake-up call to business leaders" to stop blaming the IT department for project failures and take some responsibility for poor management culture themselves. Delivering a speech to the March METAmorphosis conference in Sydney, Loebenstein said it was about time IT broke out of the blame game which all too often saw it carry the can for the failures of others.

In much the way a weary traveller can step across the threshold of a Holiday Inn in even the most exotic corners of the world and feel at home, so any ANZ bank manager can walk into the comms closet in any branch and know exactly which buttons to press