• Yahoo board to 'review' discrepancy in CEO's resume

  By John Ribeiro | 04 May, 2012 14:23

  Yahoo said late Thursday that its board will review a discrepancy in the resume of its CEO, Scott Thompson, and "make an appropriate disclosure" to its shareholders.

• Yahoo CEO's resume overstated his technology background

  By Cameron Scott | 04 May, 2012 09:54

  Yahoo acknowledged on Thursday that its new CEO, Scott Thompson, does not hold a degree in "accounting and computer science" as his resume and the company's financial filings claimed, and instead majored only in accounting.

• Yahoo makes a play for small business ad dollars, dives into proxy fight

  By Cameron Scott | 03 May, 2012 05:17

  Yahoo launched a free marketing dashboard on Wednesday to boost its advertising appeal for small and midsized businesses by simplifying digital marketing for them.

• Busting CIO myths

  By Martha Heller | 01 May, 2012 07:29

  Welcome to IT MythBusters, where we take your most cherished beliefs about IT and rake them over the coals. In this edition, we feature Jeanne Ross, director of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research and co-author of books on enterprise architecture, governance and IT value. Enjoy.

• Houston, we have an IT governance problem

  By Harvey Okin | 18 April, 2012 04:49

  "Houston, we've had a problem." With these understated words, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert announced a crisis whose resolution would become a signature example of how to manage on-the-fly. But it also demonstrated how better advance planning and coordination among the space program's contractors and NASA could have averted many of the ensuing difficulties the space crew faced.

• Cloud security: how to protect your data

  By CSO staff | 14 June, 2011 21:17

  To use Cloud computing securely requires companies to know where their data is stored and who has access to it. Ironically, the reason Cloud is so popular is because organisations don't want to worry about these details.

  So can the issue be solved by adhering to standards? Increasing legislation? Maybe we need a global technical disaster to ‘sober up’ an industry drunk on the power of Moore's Law.

• Sydney Water IT security manager talks governance strategy

  By Rodney Gedda | 03 September, 2010 09:41

  Information security governance should not be treated like corporate governance, IT security steering committees must have the right stakeholders and the board can remain largely unaware of security issues. Those are key strategies for effective security governance, says IT security and assurance manager at Sydney Water, Stephen Frede.

• Open-source software's hidden snags

  By Mary Brandel | 11 May, 2010 03:54

  When CIO Daniel Chan was first prompted to use open-source software, cost savings weren't top of mind.

• Project Governance Part 5: Project Governance as Managing

  By Jed Simms | 15 December, 2009 09:10

  The Project Sponsor should manage the project manager! Now, this may be news to some project managers (and some Project Sponsors!)...

• Project Governance Part 4: Project Governance as the Approving body

  By Jed Simms | 08 December, 2009 08:43

  Ultimately accountability for the returns on investment lie with the Project Sponsor and governance team. So they should be actively reviewing and approving several aspects of the project. This should not be a 'tick and flick' type of approval, but a due, considered review with consideration as to the pros and cons and downstream implications.

Whitepapers about governance

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  OVUM Report: Governance Risk and Compliance-- GRC usage and buying trends in the ANZ markets

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