• Three easy ways to get better at the hard stuff

  By Madeline Weiss and June Drewry | 16 December, 2011 12:56

  The old adage that "the soft stuff is the hard stuff" certainly applies to CIOs. Consider the many new ways we work together today as companies adopt global shared services, enterprisewide architectures and systems, and entirely new business models that arrive in mergers and acquisitions or outsourcing arrangements. All this requires finely honed skills in transformation and transition.

• Corporate IT spending gets boost as hiring increases

  By Todd R. Weiss | 15 June, 2011 08:26

  The good news is right there on the balance sheets of some of the nation's largest and most influential IT companies: Their income and revenue are higher and growing again, and the effects are starting to be very noticeable across the U.S. tech industry.

• BUDGET 2011 ECONOMY: On course for surplus in 2012/13 - Swan

  By AAP | 10 May, 2011 20:41

  Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan remains on course to preside over the first Labor government budget surplus since Bob Hawke was returned for a fourth time as prime minister in 1990.

• We can handle another GFC: Swan

  By AAP | 30 August, 2010 09:39

  Australia is well placed to deal strongly with another global financial crisis, should one arise, federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

• International banking debt poses a major challenge to Australia's economic future

  By Lisa Banks | 11 August, 2010 14:00

  A panel of economic leaders have discussed the future of the global economy, with Bill Evans from Westpac saying foreign debt may still affect Australia in fifteen years time.

• CIOs fear mass IT exodus following economic recovery

  By Denise Dubie | 19 November, 2009 08:32

  IT professionals asked to do more work for less pay and fewer benefits might be able to forgive their employers' financial choices, but industry watchers say high-tech workers won't soon forget being treated poorly during the most recent economic recession and will look to find other employment opportunities as soon as the recovery gets under way.

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