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    Why You Need More Than One Software Vendor 14 January, 2008 12:58:31

    The conventional wisdom is that it's always better to have fewer software vendors - or even a single vendor - to manage than it is to use multiple vendors.
    Lining up a single vendor to supply most of your software seems easy but isn't always smart, says an IT management expert. With fewer vendors to choose from these days, it's best to hedge your bets
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    10 Tips to Help Employees Collaborate 03 December, 2007 13:05:58

    Collaboration has always been an essential part of the fabric of the Internet. E-mail, instant messaging, chat rooms, discussion groups and wikis are common collaborative elements that have matured over time
    Collaborative development environments will be the next "killer app" in software development. They'll make use of wikis, instant messaging, forums and online presence. But don't just barrel into it without thinking through the options
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    Are You Misusing the CIO Title? 03 December, 2007 13:25:24

    A message to the CIO community from the CIO Executive Council
    "A CIO should be enabling the business to grow. If all the CIO does is oversee tech systems, he or she should be renamed 'tech manager'," declared Louis Ehrlich
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    How to Package Yourself for a New CIO Job 05 June, 2007 10:17:59

    Why it pays to treat an IT executive job search like a product launch
    CIOs love a good analogy: an IT infrastructure is like a house; business is like a football game; an IT project (too often) is like a patient bleeding on the table. With that in mind, I thought I'd apply a new analogy to an old question: Just how does one go about conducting a proactive, precise, effective job search?
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    True Colours 03 April, 2007 13:02:21

    Character is an essential element of leadership. HereÂ’s how to develop yours and let it shine
    In my experience, most people are good. Walk the halls of any company and you will find committed parents, involved community members and hardworking professionals. How then to explain the fact that on a daily basis many of us behave badly, demonstrating such self-defeating behaviours as pessimism, selfishness and insecurity?
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    Zapped! 03 April, 2007 12:33:13

    Rising energy costs are short-circuiting performance gains from faster, cheaper servers. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to keep your costs in line
    Server prices are dropping, performance is increasing, and IT is consuming less space. So why is total cost of ownership headed through the roof?
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    Leadership Under the Influence 05 March, 2007 12:09:32

    Inexperience, old habits and fear can lead to unnecessary risk taking by the CIO. Avoid this trap by following these simple rules for safe and effective IT leadership
    IT leadership is never easy, but some people make it harder than it has to be.
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    Get Smarter About Security Risks 07 February, 2007 15:43:41

    How much you should invest in protecting corporate data depends on how good you are at assessing the threat
    There's a reason companies are asking CIOs to solve a new kind of security risk every time they turn around. Business continuity threats, data breaches, malicious code and stolen laptops all have one thing in common - they're the price of information technology's success.
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    New Year, New You 05 February, 2007 14:58:51

    Lay the groundwork for your next career move by mastering the skills to succeed as CIO
    A generation ago, if you could claim a 10-year career as CIO, you were probably nearing retirement. After all, the position was only really formalized in the mid-1980s.
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    Preludes to a Customer Kiss 11 December, 2006 13:10:29

    Getting closer to customers seems like a no-brainer - but it may not make you any more profitable than you were before. The key is to take it slow
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    CIO in the Round 11 December, 2006 13:00:29

    CIOs can push their leadership skills to the next level by using a 360 review to understand what they do well - and to start doing it better.
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    A Good Offence Is a Good Defence 06 November, 2006 12:56:06

    Why it pays CIOs to map their plays before a dictate to outsource comes down from on high
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    Value? Added 09 October, 2006 13:30:31

    How CIOs can engineer a "tipping point" to speed up adoption of value management practices and prove - once and for all - that IT matters
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    The Case for Advocacy 09 October, 2006 12:17:21

    If you as CIO launch an initiative inside your company, perhaps a new systems architecture or a revised help desk process, but you fail to support it with communications to employees, then that initiative - no matter how important - is dead on arrival
    Good leaders advocate for their own initiatives. And sometimes help others advocate for them
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    The Folly of Finger-Pointing 04 August, 2006 12:45:56

    If individuals don't accept personal responsibility when things go wrong, their organizations will become dysfunctional and stay dysfunctional
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    Inside Internode's data centre 05 June, 2009 14:39:00

    Computerworld gets an exclusive behind the scenes look inside Internode's Adelaide data centre with network guru Mark Newton
    Computerworld gets an exclusive behind the scenes look inside Internode's Adelaide data centre with network guru Mark Newton
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    HP uses outside air, big fans, 12-foot raised floor to cool servers 03 June, 2009 07:44:00

    It's also cutting data center power use by painting server racks white
    Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.
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    HP targets the cloud with new hardware 12 June, 2009 08:27:00

    HP offers complete cloud computing package for businesses
    HP has designed a new portfolio of hardware, software, and services, aimed at reducing costs and saving resource, particularly for businesses involved in Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing.
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    Defence to spend $700m on ICT reform 05 June, 2009 11:13:00

    Strategic Reform Program report reveals only half of defence IT budget visible to CIO
    Less than half of the annual $1.2 billion spent by Defence on its ICT is visible to its chief information officer, Greg Farr, a new report has revealed.
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    Inside Telstra's Virtualisation Strategy 11 May, 2009 14:12:00

    Need to cut infrastructure costs driving the strategy
    Telstra is increasingly turning to virtualisation as its core strategy to both manage the rising costs of, and growth in, its data centres, according the companyÂ’s CIO, John McInerney.
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    Defence to Initiate ICT Reform Program, Expand CIO Role 05 May, 2009 11:56:00

    ERP rollout, data centre consolidation, single architecture all on the cards, according to the Department of DefenceÂ’s strategic policy white paper
    The Defence department has signaled a raft of changes to its approach to information technology under a new ICT reform program.

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    New scam email uses Australian Federal Police to gain victims' trust 03 July, 2009 10:49:00

    Fake offers of free AFP monitoring service to stop "cybernetic attacks"
    Cyber criminals have changed tack in their ongoing scam campaign against banks, moving to the use of government agencies to gain the trust of unsuspecting email recipients.
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    AFP hits $6 million identity fraud syndicate 03 July, 2009 08:25:00

    $500,000 of goods per week purchased with fake credit cards
    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims to have struck a major blow to a multi-million identity fraud syndicate.
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    5 steps to secure a new PC 30 June, 2009 00:19:00

    Just unwrapped a brand-new PC? Security pros share their secrets for making your system Internet-safe.
    A common misconception is that a shiny new computer is more or less secure because it hasn't yet been exposed to the Internet's sinister underbelly. But the truth is, these machines come out of the box needing scores of patches, some basic security software downloads and the disabling or replacing of items security pros don't typically trust.
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    Facebook simplifies privacy settings, calls them too complex 02 July, 2009 05:48:00

    The social-networking site is also getting ready to let members share content with anyone on the Internet
    Facebook will simplify the way in which it offers privacy options to its users, as it gets ready to give its members for the first time the option to make the content they post on their profiles available to anyone on the Internet.
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    DR a growing concern for A/NZ CIOs: Symantec 02 July, 2009 09:16:00

    Mission critical apps and cost of down-time major drivers
    CIOs in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly getting involved in the disaster recovery planning of their organisations, according to a new survey from Symantec.
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