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Keeping the Boss Happy 15 November, 2000 10:20:29
Last year I asked 23 leading CIOs in Australia and Great Britain what they would request if they found a magic wand. The most common response was a desire to complete straight away IS's foundation stones. - +
Renovating the Business 16 October, 2000 09:18:22
IS is very much caught between a rock and a hard place when it plans the architecture on which to build an e-commerce site. - +
Doing Windows 04 September, 2000 10:56:56
The annual Forecast for Management survey asks local CIOs to identify the three major challenges ahead for them in the next 12 to 18 months [For an overview, see the June issue of CIO]. - +
Bend Me, Shape Me 11 August, 2000 14:00:08
W e live at a time of great corporate change. World-famous brands and household names are disappearing almost overnight as a wave of "merger mania" sweeps the business world. - +
You Make Your Own Luck 31 May, 2000 16:02:07
In this year's Forecast for Management overview, the message for CIOs is clear: it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game - +
Learning the Ropes 28 January, 2000 13:19:43
Ask CIOs to list their top 10 challenges and many will put increasing the IS department's business acumen on their lists. After all, if IS understands the business and its challenges, then IS is more apt to promote technology solutions more pertinent to end-user needs. - +
Customer Valued 03 November, 1999 12:41:55
For much of the 1990s many organisations have been so focused on cost containment they have overlooked their customers. It has taken consumer backlash against things as diverse as bank branch closures, globalisation and privatisation to remind these businesses that it's the customer who is footing the bill. Perhaps that explains the burgeoning interest in customer relationship management (CRM) systems. - +
Project Management Blues 03 May, 1999 12:58:28
The 1990s very much seems a decade where the dominant catchcry is: "more is less". It is very hard to find any IS executive who does not feel they are working more hours with less staff than they were in the 1980s. - +
Digital Apartheid 12 April, 1999 10:23:49
I remember it as one of my parents' major investments. Both of them placed a great emphasis on education, so they were keen when the Encyclopaedia Britannica salesman called some time in the mid-1960s. Little was I to know then that their great sacrifice was to cost me half a day in lost productivity, and several hundred dollars in out-of-pocket expenses, 35 years later. - +
What's in a Title? 15 December, 1998 12:25:23
Column Eight in the Sydney Morning Herald recently spotlighted the phenomenon of nominative determinism. - +
Practice Makes Perfect 01 July, 1998 12:04:56
It was Ray Davies of the Kinks who wrote the satirical pop ballad "Dedicated follower of fashion". He was inspired by the London youth of the 1960s slavishly following Carnaby Street fashion trends.
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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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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. - +
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. - +
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. - +
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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CBS website bitten by iFrame hack 02 December, 2008 07:30:00
Russian malware distributors have launched another iFrame attack on a sub-domain of the cbs.com site.TV network CBS has become the latest big name to have it website used to host malware, a security company has reported. - +
Excerpt: Counterterrorism Strategies for Corporations 27 November, 2008 12:36:00
Mike Ackerman calls terrorism "the skunk at the globalization lawn party." His new book lays out 10 principles for how businesses can prepare and respond.Mike Ackerman calls terrorism "the skunk at the globalization lawn party." His new book lays out 10 principles for how businesses can prepare and respond. - +
The 10 Ackerman Principles of Counterterrorism 27 November, 2008 12:43:00
Consultant and author Mike Ackerman's 10 counterterrorism principles for business.Consultant and author Mike Ackerman's 10 counterterrorism principles for business. - +
Survey: Despite Risks, Employees Still Holiday Shop at Work 27 November, 2008 10:02:00
As Cyber Monday approaches, research suggests a majority of workers will use their work computer to shop this holiday season. But despite the continued growth in online shopping, employees and business still don't understand the riskAs Cyber Monday approaches, research suggests a majority of workers will use their work computer to shop this holiday season. But despite the continued growth in online shopping, employees and business still don't understand the risk. - +
Why Cybercrime is Thriving 27 November, 2008 11:52:00
A new Symantec report reveals just how large and sophisticated the online underground economy has grownA new Symantec report reveals just how large and sophisticated the online underground economy has grown.
FrontRange Solutions launches HEAT Plus Mobile to reduce help desk costs and improve service management productivity 02 December, 2008 15:15:00
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Orbis selects Telstra International as its data centre partner for the UK, Europe and Middle East Region 02 December, 2008 11:23:00
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Mornington Peninsula Shire implements Objective to manage knowledge and deliver service excellence 02 December, 2008 09:56:00
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