Australian businesses need to make IT leaders part of the executive team to drive business strategy, according to one leading CIO.
Executives wanting success from major IT projects need to be "ruthless" in spruiking their benefits to staff, and should only give their direct reports three months to win employees' hearts and minds before replacing them, a senior PricewaterhouseCoopers analyst has reported in sharing the results of recent research on CEO effectiveness.
Three-quarters of the way through a massive consolidation and overhaul of its core business applications, dairy and juice giant National Foods has found that the most difficult parts of the project aren't related to technology, but to processes and the simple challenge of keeping skilled people on track.
Australian Taxation Office officials have opted for homegrown software development to keep the Change Program on track, and have all but ruled out offshore labour.
Australian Taxation Office (ATO) second commissioner Greg Farr said his staff are performing the equivalent of one regular Siebel implementation per week as they keep a case management system deployment on track.
Last week we looked at the history of the internet in Australia. It's been around for 20 years and changed our lives in so many ways. Imagine what it could do given another 20 years.
Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
Web 2.0 start-ups never die, they just go into stealth mode.
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.
Most change managers spend most of their time recording already enacted changes. Why not work instead with key decision makers to get ahead of the change process?
Good change management acts like a traffic light that regulates the smooth flow of changes. Set up a well-deployed process to ensure changes don't negatively affect your company.
Sometimes the best practices of one of our superiors contradicts what we know to be right. How we handle the effort could well determine the fate of our project.
Business changes can disrupt your carefully constructed plans. Learn how to maintain your portfolio by working with your business partners to manage those changes and reprioritise.
The newly-appointed CEO meets the press for the first time and talks about his mission to improve Hewlett-Packard's performance by focusing on clear targets and a "team" approach to reaching them.
Most PCs are equipped with power management functions, but people turn them off. Turn them on, says Simon Mingay, research VP, Gartner. Savings can be achieved in datacentres also. Most companies run test and development centres constantly, but some are changing their ways.
Patchlink's international senior vice president Andrew Clarke told ZDNet Australia that the company is taking a slightly new direction after acquiring a vulnerability management company earlier this year. Clarke also admitted that the company is likely to change its name within a few months.
Chipmaker will release its "LaGrande" security technology in the second half of the year with the launch of its second-generation vPro business desktop technology.
We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.
Collaboration, records management, and workflow are just some of the features in current electronic document management software. We examine your options.
If your company needs to manage a large collection of multimedia files, FotoWare's solution is powerful, quick and easy to use.
Does your company's human resource management functions need to be automated? We look at what you need to consider, and three packages to help you do it.
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