• 5 Things IT Pros Need to Know About SaaS Governance

  By Chris Kanaracus | 26 February, 2013 16:14

  Software as a service is here to stay. So CIOs need the tools to manage their sprawling portfolios of SaaS applications with the same rigor they use for on-premise software.

• IT Department Reorgs Are on the Horizon

  By Lauren Brousell | 26 February, 2013 14:53

  An IDG Enterprise study finds that most IT departments are centralized, but the federated model is gaining momentum as CIOs reorient their staffs to focus on business needs

• 9 ways to stop your IT outsourcing deal from leaking money

  By Stephanie Overby | 16 June, 2011 07:18

  If there were a relatively straightforward way for an IT leader to boost his company's bottom line by millions of dollars a year, chances are he wouldn't ignore it. But that's just what many CIOs are doing as a result of poor outsourcing management.

• Overthinking governance prevents innovation

  By Lisa Banks | 09 March, 2011 09:59

  Minimising overthinking of governance issues when deploying SharePoint is vital if CIOs are to achieve long term innovation, a SharePoint specialist has claimed.

• The state of the Australian CIO 2010

  By Rodney Gedda | 08 October, 2010 17:00

  The annual State of the CIO study provides Australian chief information officers with local research on leadership strategies, salary ranges, tenure and business priorities in mid to large organisations. CIOs in organisations with an average of 145 IT staff, supporting 7000 users participated in this year’s study and provided a benchmark for best-practice in IT business management. The study is part of a global research project which allows CIOs to compare their priorities and objectives with those of equivalent organisations in the United States.

• 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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