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Ever just want to slow down at work? Remember the days when you had space in your diary, could make a snap decision to take a long lunch, or when you regularly used that gym membership? What happened to work-life balance? When did it become so hard and where did the time go?
Next year will carry big expectations for Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs).
The world is more interconnected and intelligent than ever and most companies operate in a global market place. Best practices and operational excellence from a single innovative company, instantly affect the market for another company on the other side of the globe. As business gets more complex, the IT applications and systems that support it need to do the exact opposite -- become simpler and easier to use.
Imagine this -- a typical Tuesday morning, the corporate network is down. A few years ago, this would have sent offices into panic mode, leaving employees helpless to act until the IT department fixes the problem. Not anymore -- today’s employees have their email and diaries on their smart phones, client lists on their Blackberrys and documents on their iPads. What started as organisations tolerating the odd iPhone and Tablet at the workplace is rather reluctantly evolving to a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) culture.
The uncertainty in the stock market and global economy is driving the growth of the managed services market in Australia. With IT budgets tight, CIOs risk adverse and boards looking for flexibility, managed services appear set to dominate IT activity, according to John Taylor, chief technology officer of Logica.
Every day, organisations are producing and capturing enormous amounts of information about their customers, suppliers and operations. Add to this the information now available from multimedia, smart phones and social networking sites, and we are faced with more data than ever before.
The markets in Asia, particularly China, present a wealth of new business and growth opportunities for Australian organisations looking to extend their international footprint. Culturally diverse and complex, the region has a challenging legislative and political landscape but for those that can succeed, it holds huge economic rewards. It is also a market no business can afford to ignore, particularly as China continues on its path to become the number one player in the international marketplace.
With wave upon wave of new, consumer devices coming into the enterprise in the hands of employees, the question 'How can I put this on the network?' is ringing loudly in the ears of CIOs.
It will come as no surprise to most IT professionals that the greater the IT infrastructure sprawl, the less interesting your typical working day will be.
The introduction of the carbon tax has put additional pressure on companies to report their carbon emissions, requiring them to understand their position throughout the year – not just at year end. It’s time therefore for CIOs to start thinking about how they’re going to gather this information.
The days of large IT transformation projects are over. In their place will be a new kind of IT transformation: smaller in scale, near-constant and more responsive to business needs — but with vast potential to revolutionise how IT is used by enterprises.
The IT team at Sanmina-SCI works in the competitive high-tech manufacturing industry. It must constantly look for ways to improve service levels while cutting costs. So it took a look ...
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