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  • Strategies for successful long-term planning

    Gartner issues a note to clients warning of impending economic doom. On one hand, it could be dismissed as just another research missive injected into the steady stream of bad news flowing out of Europe and North America.

    Written by Mark Jones • 12 April 12 14:37
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    What went wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope (and what managers can learn from it)

    There's nothing unusual about having a bad day at the office. But some people have worse days than others, and in his time Charles (Charlie) Pellerin has had a few notable ones. Not many people find themselves having to explain why an organisation has invested a decade and half and in the vicinity of $3 billion on a project that has failed.

    Written by Rohan Pearce • 29 March 12 14:35

  • Windows 8: Assessing IT risks of a consumer-driven wave

    There isn't a great deal of demand for Windows 8 at the moment, but then, this early in the cycle, new versions of Windows rarely garner much enthusiasm.

    Written by Rob Enderle • 10 Feb. 12 04:23

  • 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

  • Growth-Market M&A: A Risky Necessity

    Companies wanting to use deals as a way to enter growth markets, or build their presence when they're already there, this year face risks and rewards well worth contemplating.

    Written by Roy Harris • 24 Jan. 12 11:48

  • Marketing IT to the business: Part 1

    Chief information officers have some things down pat. For a start, they’re good at working with a business to find out how information technology can automate processes to improve productivity and efficiencies.

    Written by Mark Phillips • 14 Nov. 11 12:57

  • Root cause analysis and corrective action for project managers

    Project managers have the immense task of juggling requirements and resources that are often not under their direct control in order to produce the required project deliverables within the limited constraints to which they must adhere (scope, time, quality, etc.).

    Written by Gareth Byatt, Gary Hamilton, Jeff Hodgkinson and Duke Okes • 31 Oct. 11 08:13

  • Apple vs. Samsung highlights importance of IP for CIOs

    CIOs and IT managers must closely examine contractual agreements when purchasing IT goods or services to ensure all bases are covered when it comes to intellectual property (IP), a legal expert has advised.

    Written by Chloe Herrick • 19 Oct. 11 12:57
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    Disaster recovery: The next generation

    Traditional disaster recovery has undergone a fundamental shift as simple backup strategies are replaced by technologies that create resilient businesses.

    Written by Joshua Gliddon • 21 Sept. 11 09:58
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    How to create a risk register

    A Risk Register, also referred to as a Risk Log, is a master document which is created during the early stages of your project. It is a tool that plays an important part in your Risk Management Plan, helping you to track issues and address problems as they arise.

    Written by CIO Staff • 19 Sept. 11 11:19

  • Business analytics comes of age

    Business analytics has been effective in decision-making for three of four enterprises, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services survey sponsored by SAS.

    Written by Mark Phillips • 02 Sept. 11 12:10

  • Avoid Patriot Act surprises: Encrypt Cloud data on-premise

    CIOs the world over who do business with US organisations do so under the shadow of the US Patriot Act.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 20 July 11 00:02

  • Project communications: To blog or not to blog?

    We have all been told that communication with all stakeholders, particularly the core project team, is one of the central responsibilities of the Project Manager.

    Written by Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt and Jeff Hodgkinson • 12 July 11 11:43

  • Want to get 'old' CEOs into social media? Try success stories

    What do IT and marketing people do if their CEO and other senior managers are stultifying the use of social media? Show them case studies and examples of how other C-level executives are using it to their advantage, say leading social media professionals from Telstra and Facebook.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 07 June 11 09:59

  • Don't gamble your company's reputation on data governance

    Over the last two decades, the primary contribution of information technologies in firms has been about efficiency and enablement: to improve processes, make people more productive, reduce time to market, or enable things that couldn't be done previously.

    Written by Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan • 21 May 11 02:33

  • Define, educate, prevent: Avoiding data loss is easier than you may think

    Most organizations believe they aren't in danger of losing data, but as recent news demonstrates, the threat is real and no organization is immune.

    Written by Sadik Al-Abdulla, senior manager, CDW Security Practice • 19 May 11 01:32
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    Risk management and project management go hand in hand

    Here’s a question for you to quickly consider: Effective risk management underpins a successful project – true or false? Was "true" your first reaction? We believe that you’re right.

    Written by Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt and Jeff Hodgkinson • 03 May 11 10:42

  • What your business can learn from Amazon Cloud outage

    The servers are back up and users can once again check in on Foursquare and ask questions on Quora, but the legacy of last week's Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) outage will live on and provide important lessons for businesses as they look to cloud computing for their IT future.

    Written by Robert Dutt • 27 April 11 05:34

  • NSW DSTA adds risk management software

    The NSW government department tasked with the state’s data centre reform program, the Department of Services Technology and Administration, has the green light to procure a software package to support internal audit and corporate risk management.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 04 April 11 12:01

  • SCADA security arms race underway

    While the race between industrial control system attackers and defenders didn't start with the Stuxnet worm, it certainly acted as a catalyst to a new arms race and more researchers taking a closer look at the quality of SCADA software.

    Written by George V. Hulme • 01 April 11 23:45
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