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• 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.

• GDP economic measure misleading: Stiglitz

  By Lisa Banks | 11 August, 2010 10:49

  Replacing the gross domestic product (GDP) with another measure of economic output holds distinct advantages, says the World Bank former chief economist and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Stiglitz. The GDP could be “a misleading indicator” for countries trying to measure their economic success, Stiglitz told delegates at the Australian Economic Forum in Sydney.

• Top 10 ways CIOs can prepare for another recession

  By Thomas Wailgum | 05 August, 2010 09:03

  As Gartner warns IT leaders in the US to be ready in case a second recession hits, CIO.com's Thomas Wailgum shares his thoughts on how CIOs can actually slash pesky budgets. Hint: Unpaid interns, meet Russian hackers!

• ACT ranked best performing economy

  By AAP | 19 April, 2010 12:37

  The April CommSec state of the states survey, released on Monday, shows the ACT outperformed Western Australia after the two states shared the top position in January.

• Cisco's Chambers sees hope after recession

  By Stephen Lawson | 19 May, 2009 04:12

  The current recession is almost the opposite of the 2001 downturn for Cisco Systems because of permanent cost-cutting and the company's move into new technologies and markets, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Monday.

• Paper: Consumer data helps fuel Internet economy

  By Grant Gross | 19 May, 2009 04:31

  Online targeted advertising and the collection of consumer data are the fuel of Internet commerce, not the major privacy problems described by some advocates and U.S. lawmakers, according to a new paper.

• Ballmer: IT has opportunities from economic recovery

  By John Ribeiro | 14 May, 2009 04:24

  Growth will have to come from higher productivity and innovation when the economy begins to recover, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told developers gathered Wednesday in Hyderabad for the company's India edition of the Tech Ed conference.

• In tight times, IT managers more likely to postpone than cancel a project

  By Matt Hamblen | 15 May, 2009 02:30

  IT managers have canceled outright fewer client computing projects during the recession than expected, preferring instead to postpone or scale them back, according to a Gartner Inc. survey of 475 IT administrators at large companies in nine countries.

• Tough economic climate can heighten insider threat

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 16 October, 2008 08:09

  With a faltering economy resulting in increased jobs cuts and corporate belt tightening, security analysts are warning companies to be especially vigilant about protecting their data and networks against disgruntled employees.