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When Bob McKinnon stepped into the CIO shoes at CommBank, he was stunned by the lack of maturity around management thinking and operating models for IT within organisations in general. McKinnon, who trained as an accountant, is on a mission to bring more accountability to IT&T.

Announced in 1996, AMPlus, the IT alliance between AMP and then Andersen Consulting, was hailed as an "engine of transformation" by then CEO George Trumbull. Today, AMP is minus the "plus" and going it alone - welcome to IT@AMP

Project management, long an "accidental" skill, is fast becoming the new source of technical brilliance in the IT department.

Predicting the future isn't easy, but there are ways to diminish the uncertainty through scenario planning.

Many CIOs have discovered the hard way the hurt that can be engendered by trying to force change on unwilling recipients. Just look at the widespread dissatisfaction and mistrust that early business change projects targeted at slashing costs and head counts left in their wake. What those pioneering mistakes taught above all is that the only successful change program is one that involves all participants early, identifies champions of change throughout the organisation, inspires people to embrace rather than fight the changes involved, and fosters commitment to a common purpose.

Is there a happy ever after when you tie the knot with an outsourcer? After all, this isn't just about having someone to go out to dinner with - it's about having a partner who'll stick with you through good times and bad

The fund management industry is fast catching up with its broking and banking counterparts in the race for cyberspace

What happens when one of them becomes one of us? CIO asks the question of Com Tech's new chief information officer, who has recently leapt the fence separating computer user and computer provider

Doing the right thing as an enterprise leader has never been more important than in today's rapidly changing business environment. Are you the leader you need to be, want to be, can be?

This article explains how working closely with your international counterparts can pay off for the entire global enterprise.

Companies are increasingly hiring CIOs with non-technical backgrounds in areas such as marketing and finance. As head of the Technology, Operations and Property division at the Commonwealth Bank, John Mulcahy was cut from that cloth. He speaks about the advantages a non-technical CIO brings to the job