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• IT outsourcing: Will CIOs reclaim their power?

  By Stephanie Overby | 22 May, 2012 00:36

  IT outsourcing has always been a double-edged sword for CIOs. What starts out as a cure for IT's ills always seems to cause more headaches down the road.

• BYOD stirs up legal problems

  By Tom Kaneshige | 10 May, 2012 22:29

  Let's say you need to pull some corporate data off an employee's personal iPad. Under the newly and hastily crafted bring-your-own-device policy, or BYOD, the employee is required to hand over the iPad to the IT computer forensics team.

• Kaiser Permanente's CIO aims to make healthcare more delightful

  By John Gallant | 02 May, 2012 23:32

  With the U.S. Supreme Court now debating the fate of the so-called 'Obamacare' legislation passed in 2010, healthcare has been much in the news of late -- and not much of the news about healthcare is very good.

• CIO's digital spotlight on BYOD

  By CIO Staff | 01 May, 2012 08:26

  The fact that your employees--not to mention your CEO--are bringing their own devices to work is well-known. Now the question is, how can your IT department approach this BYOD phenomenon?

• Opinion: CIOs' Cloud strategy must include public Cloud

  By Bernard Golden | 27 April, 2012 02:58

  Over the past year, I've noticed a significant shift in my conversations about cloud with senior IT managers.

• SMS messaging tech company looking for CIO

  By CIO Staff | 16 April, 2012 12:13

  Looking for a CIO with an operational focus to drive mission-critical infrastructure.

• WA businesses ramp up CIO, senior ICT hires to deal with mining boom

  By Chloe Herrick | 13 April, 2012 10:04

  Western Australia has seen a ramp up in recruitment of CIOs and senior ICT employees as companies try to meet increasing demands of the ongoing mining and resources boom.

• Chevron's CIO talks transformation and why IT leaders should smile

  By John Gallant | 13 April, 2012 04:56

  Ask Louie Ehrlich, CIO and president of Chevron Information Technology Company, about the most important things he's learned leading a giant, global IT team through massive change and you get a surprisingly non-technology focused answer: You've gotta scratch the itch, act like a two-year-old, mind the gap and live like you're dying. Those things sound simple, but they're hard-won lessons for Ehrlich, the top tech executive for the nearly $250 billion energy company, whose three-year transformation effort has yielded the better part of a billion dollars in payback for Chevron.

• Will Windows 8 survive in the post-PC world?

  By Shane O'Neill | 04 April, 2012 04:11

  Try as it will to break through in the mobile space, Microsoft is still struggling to gain any ground with Windows Phone almost a year-and-a-half after its launch.

• Govt launches $5m robotic labs at UTS

  By Chloe Herrick | 30 March, 2012 10:38

  The Federal Government has launched a $5 million facility at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for nurses and midwives to train with robot patients.

• IT outsourcing system is broken, how can service providers fix it?

  By Stephanie Overby | 30 March, 2012 06:33

  Andrew Wasser's perch affords him a broad view of the IT outsourcing industry. Wasser serves as associate dean of the Heinz College's School of Information Systems and Management at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where a third of the graduate students studying applied business and information technology are refugees from the IT services industry.

• Q&A: NSW Electoral Commission CIO, Ian Brightwell

  By Chloe Herrick | 28 March, 2012 10:51

  As CIO of the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC), Ian Brightwell has been pivotal in the agency’s journey towards electronic voting over recent years.

• J.C Penney slashes CIO role

  By John Dodge | 22 March, 2012 06:51

  On Jan. 18, JCP named Kristen E. Blum as Chief Technology Officer and executive vice president. Her appointment resulted in the elimination of the CIO position held by Ed Robben, who left the company this month. The elimination of the CIO position was revealed in a memo sent out by Blum to the JCP IT staff.

• Updated: ACMA seeks deputy CIO

  By Chloe Herrick | 20 March, 2012 14:22

  The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is seeking a new deputy CIO ‘Transformation’ after former CIO, Carsten Larsen, moved into a general management role with the communications regulator.

• UTS details ICT overhaul, shortlists CIO candidates

  By Chloe Herrick | 15 March, 2012 11:10

  The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has shortlisted applicants for its newly created CIO role, with a possible appointment to be made by the end of April.