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  • Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore

    As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company owns and manages across North America and Australia. In Western Australia’s Pilbarra region alone, for example, Rio Tinto operates a network of 14 mines, three shipping terminals and the largest privately owned heavy freight railway in Australia, which spans 1400 kilometres.

    Written by Matt Rodgers • 09 Dec. 11 07:00

  • Rohan Davidson, CIO Rio Tinto Iron Ore

    As CIO of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group Rohan Davidson plays a critical role in overseeing the IT requirements of the operations the mining company owns and manages across North America and Australia. In Western Australia’s Pilbarra region alone, for example, Rio Tinto operates a network of 14 mines, three shipping terminals and the largest privately owned heavy freight railway in Australia, which spans 1400 kilometres.

    Written by Matt Rodgers • 08 Dec. 11 14:17

  • Vito Forte, CIO, Fortescue Metals Group

    After joining the Fortescue Metals Group as CIO in January 2011, Vito Forte now leads the company’s IT department as it assists the resources industry giant to keep pace with its strategy of rapid growth and expansion. In this interview, he talks to CIO about Fortescue’s transformation plans, the rise of Cloud and mobile technologies, and why, when it comes to IT innovation, culture eats strategy for breakfast.

    Written by Matt Rodgers • 07 Dec. 11 08:16

  • CIO's to watch: Parmalat's Barry Wiech

    With its extra screen space, it makes sense for an avid Angry Birds gamer to choose a tablet. But Parmalat chief information officer — and Angry Birds player — Barry Wiech still favours the game on an iPhone; its portability allows him to carry it around in his pocket. It is this practicality that Wiech also applies to his role.

    Written by Diana Nguyen • 04 Nov. 11 12:01

  • CIOs to watch: McGrath's Tod O’Dell

    Tod O’Dell worked his way up from the help desk to service delivery and management of the development team at McGrath Estate Agents.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 03 Nov. 11 09:41
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    Cloud computing and governance in the digital age

    During the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk about Cloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panel was made up the former US federal government chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, and Burberry chief executive officer, Angela Ahrendts. The four leaders discussed various issues during the course of the wide ranging conversation, including best practice for Cloud computing by governments and the importance of human rights.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 05 Sept. 11 13:37
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    NBN Co CIO: The IT leadership strategy of Australia’s new telco - Part 2

    NBN Co’s tasks are split between network construction and business-as-usual telecommunications, and few of the company’s employees could map out the same 20-year careers at the company that often herald the same position at Telstra. They share much of the history, however; many of the staff hired so far herald from chief executive, Mike Quigley’s own alma mater — Alcatel-Lucent — as well as a range of Australian and international telcos.

    Written by James Hutchinson • 16 Aug. 11 08:00

  • NBN Co CIO: The IT leadership strategy of Australia’s new telco - Part 1

    NBN Co has a head start that would leave many telcos green with envy. Armed with $27 billion in government funding, and at least $9 billion from debt markets, the two-yearold National Broadband Network wholesaler has the resources and backing that could catapult it ahead many of its decadesold equivalents. That’s not to say the challenge before the organisation isn’t any less daunting; within the decade NBN Co is set to change broadband in Australia. The monopoly wholesaler is bound by carefully worded legislation to provide equal access to many of those it will compete with on a shiny fibre-to-the-home network, and satellite and wireless offshoots. Best of all, the company is starting with a clean slate.

    Written by James Hutchinson • 15 Aug. 11 11:04

  • The business of risk management

    CIO sat down with the head of actuarial studies at the Australian School of Business, University of NSW, Associate Professor John Evans, to talk risk management and the role it plays in the enterprise.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 28 Feb. 11 12:55

  • Risk management: A CIO's strategic role

    Michael Cusumano is a professor of management and engineering systems at MIT's Sloan School of Management and author of Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World.

    Written by Kim S. Nash • 02 Feb. 11 15:04

  • Interview: Douglas Merrill, Former Google CIO

    Merrill spoke to us before he announcing his move from the search giant.

    Written by Thomas Hoffman • 18 April 08 14:17

  • Interview with a Headhunter

    How does the recruiting industry work?

    Written by Meridith Levinson • 07 Nov. 05 16:37

  • The Argument Over IT

    Author Nicholas Carr and CIO (US) editor in chief Abbie Lundberg go toe-to-toe on the strategic value of IT

    Written by Abbie Lundberg • 10 May 04 10:17

  • Service & Return

    Hosting the Australian Open might sound glamorous, but for Tennis Australia it also means coping with the mother of all seasonal spikes.

    Written by Matt Rodgers • 05 Feb. 03 13:28

  • The Real(time) McCoy

    And there he was there in force, kicking off the first-day keynote, meeting with a covey of clients and going "one-on-one" in the advisory sessions, all of which left him a bit hoarse, but no less vocal, during an interview with CIO - one of a handful he gave during his visit.

    Written by Linda Kennedy • 09 Dec. 02 13:40

  • Implementation Is Not for the Meek

    Corporate executives have a hard time executing their business strategies because they just aren't tough enough, says strategic planning expert C Davis Fogg. A US-based consultant to blue-chip companies and the author of Implementing Your Strategic Plan (Amacom, 1999), Fogg says strategic plans flop because executives don't follow through. They fail to lead. They fail to hold their employees - or themselves - accountable for results.

    Written by Elana Varon • 09 Dec. 02 11:48

  • It All Began with Drayer

    Now that every company on the planet is trying to automate the relationship between suppliers and customers, it's worth remembering who invented this stuff more than 20 years ago: Procter & Gamble. Specifically, teams of business and IT people led in 1980 by P&G brand manager Duane Weeks (who now runs his own software company, Exemplary) and in 1987 by Ralph Drayer, P&G's vice president of customer services (who now runs his own consulting company, Supply Chain Insights).

    Written by Christopher Koch • 06 Sept. 02 10:45

  • The IT Inside the World's Biggest Company

    Wal-Mart is big. To understand just how big, consider that on November 23, 2001, the 40-year-old retailer sold more than $US1.25 billion worth of goods in a single day. The company has 4457 stores, 30,000 suppliers, annual sales of more than $US217 billion - and one information system. According to CIO Kevin Turner, running centralised IS with home-grown, common-source code gives Wal-Mart a competitive advantage and helps the company maintain one of the lowest expense structures in retail.

    Written by Abbie Lundberg • 06 Sept. 02 10:45

  • Retails Well Told

    Keith Power talks to the former CIOs of US retail giants Wal-Mart and Lowe's about the benefits their IT strategies delivered.

    Written by Keith Power • 26 Nov. 01 10:00
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