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  • Think Tank: An elevator pitch for your project

    When you are a project owner, manager or a sponsor you are often asked what the project is about. It is important because bosses, employees, customers, and partners all need to ‘buy-in’ and become excited about your idea. They will form an initial impression in three minutes or less. This first impression is the lens through which everything else is viewed.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 07 Feb. 12 12:02

  • Internet broadcast rights in doubt following court ruling

    The landmark ruling by the Federal Court, which found Optus did not breach copyright by broadcasting NRL and AFL matches via its new TV Now service, has cast a doubt over the financial viability of internet broadcast rights.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 03 Feb. 12 09:38

  • Work anywhere, win anywhere

    They are coming — the invasion of mobile devices has begun. The four little letters that are keeping many a CIO awake at night are BYOC, or bring your own computing, aka bring your own device. And 2012 will be the biggest year yet for this new kind of mobility.

    Written by Bruce Carlos • 03 Feb. 12 07:36

  • Project management salaries show earnings growth, career potential

    Project management may not be the most exciting job in IT these days, especially when most of the talk about hot IT jobs pertains to software developers, information security professionals and business intelligence analysts.

    Written by Meridith Levinson • 03 Feb. 12 04:19

  • Paul Glen: The 'Low Affect' Effect

    In my exploration of the differences between technical and business people, nothing surprised me more than this: Business people tend to think that we don't care about anything. One of their biggest complaints is that we don't share their passion for the business. When-ever I hear this, I have an immediate, visceral reaction of outrage: "How could you possibly think I don't care about anything? I work like a dog to try to turn your visions into reality!"

    Written by Paul Glen • 23 Jan. 12 22:11
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    Should you consider a generic top level domain?

    Chief information officers understand the importance of domain name registrations in maintaining the integrity of their organisation’s brand. Now a study estimates the .au domain contributed $475 million to the Australian economy in 2011 and created more than 4300 full-time jobs.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 20 Jan. 12 10:08

  • CA Technologies revises Clarity interface

    CA Technologies has updated its CA Clarity Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software with a new user interface, one that the company hopes will appeal to a broader set of business users.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 19 Jan. 12 03:29

  • Bold hiring strategies from fearless CIOs

    Everyone's afraid. You can't read an article, watch a news broadcast or speak to another human being without tasting the fear. We all may agree that we'd be stupid not to be cautious, but smart leaders are working to mitigate fear and move their organizations forward.

    Written by Kristen Lamoreaux • 01 Dec. 11 06:26

  • Editor's Letter: Make Your Vendors Work For You

    What have your vendors done for you lately?

    Written by Maryfran Johnson • 01 Dec. 11 05:00

  • Victorian Ombudsman slams Labor government for failed ICT projects

    The Victorian Ombudsman has lambasted the former Labor government for causing major ICT project management issues, with a relaxed approach and inconsistent staff training causing many projects to fail.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 23 Nov. 11 16:11

  • Ensuring project success

    Project plans sometimes go off the rails. That's always been the case, and with the perfection of the human race nowhere on the horizon, it will remain true. But we can reduce the number of projects that fail.

    Written by Bart Perkins • 21 Nov. 11 22:10

  • The New Metrics for CIO Success

    When I began my career as a CIO in 1997, success was defined by the basics: email delivery, network connectivity and application functionality. I personally wrote code, experimented with new operating systems and created novel analytics.

    Written by John D. Halamka • 21 Nov. 11 22:10

  • Kelly Racing streamlines car design process, gives V8 team competitive advantage

    V8 Supercar team Kelly Racing has streamlined its design process through the use of digital prototyping and multiphysics software.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 10 Nov. 11 13:05

  • A/NZ software companies awarded for innovation

    Australian and New Zealand software companies were honoured in Sydney at the 12th annual Consensus Software Awards.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 10 Nov. 11 08:02

  • Talking to the Business: Our Problems, Their Visions

    The first meeting for a project is a tense affair. There can be a lot of new things coming at you all at once. New co-workers. New technology. New processes. And, perhaps most problematic, new business partners.

    Written by Paul Glen • 08 Nov. 11 02:22

  • Racing and Wagering Western Australia off and running for Melbourne Cup

    The IT systems of Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) are off and racing in time for this year’s Melbourne Cup, the culmination of a four-year modernisation program that includes the implementation of a Cisco Unified Computing System and intelligent network.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 01 Nov. 11 00:01

  • IT tier-level support, chargebacks, called wasteful

    ORLANDO -- With their budgets seeing little increase, IT managers are being urged by Gartner Inc. to reexamine many of their long-followed IT practices and then, quite simply, kill them .

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 20 Oct. 11 06:04

  • CIO Summit Roundtable: Application specific SLAs for the enterprise

    Some enterprises have centralised, moved consolidated global ICT assets without giving much thought to the performance of their business applications. While consolidation can help to lower costs, users can have very different experiences for accessing data and applications based on the physical distance to the data centre, where latency may be an issue.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 12 Oct. 11 11:06

  • It's not the coding that's hard, it's the people

    The data about software development is sobering. Many projects end up over budget and over schedule, and one study puts the failure rate at one-in-five.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 06 Oct. 11 22:33
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    How to undertake needs assessment

    To undertake needs assessment, there are some basics steps that you can work through to assess what resources will be required to complete a project.

    Written by CIO Staff • 21 Sept. 11 09:00
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