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  • Commonwealth Bank names new tech boss

    The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has appointed an expert in open systems architecture, investment management software and systems development to its top technology post.

  • AMP CIO scores promotion

    AMP’s chief information officer has been promoted to enjoy a direct reporting line to the chief executive officer, the financial services heavyweight announced today.

  • Superannuation guru appointed KAZ Business Services CIO

    Telstra's KAZ subsidiary has appointed superannuation veteran Tony Gold to a newly created chief information officer role in its business services division.

  • Qantas appoints new CIO

    Qantas has announced its new chief information officer (CIO), with current head of IT business services John Willett to take over the reins from Fiona Balfour, who is departing for the CIO role at Telstra.

  • New Medibank CIO takes reins

    Medibank Private chief information officer (CIO) Surinder Singh has left the health fund to return to his systems integration company.

  • Genworth gets Aussie CIO

    Genworth Financial has hired a new chief information officer to replace Christopher Hatzidis, who left the mortgage insurer to join Aussie Home Loans last October.

  • Suncorp-Promina merger to birth new CIO?

    The multi-billion dollar merger of financial services giants Suncorp and Promina looks set to create a new chief information officer role at what would be one of the nation's largest companies.

  • NSW fills CIO vacancy to fix e-gov worries

    The NSW Minister for Commerce, Eric Roozendaal, has the state government's new chief information officer, after a five-month interruption to its "People First" IT overhaul.

  • National Australia Bank replaces CIO

    The National Australia Bank has replaced chief information officer Ian Crouch with the current executive general manager of financial services Australia, Ian MacDonald as part of a management restructure designed to rebuild the reputation of the financial heavyweight.

  • Keeping a cool head

    Aviva Australia CIO Sharam Hekmat is not one to rush into things without his eyes wide open. He tells Renai LeMay why a large HP outsourcing contract was split into several chunks and the reasons for bringing some services in-house.

Features and Case Studies

  • NAB takes AU$200 million writedown on failed ERP project

    The National Australia Bank has taken a pre-tax writedown of AU$409 million on its software assets for the year as botched initiatives such as its notorious global enterprise resource planning project take their toll on the financial institution's full-year bottom line.

  • IT still struggles with growing pains: CIOs

    The information technology industry continues to suffer from growing pains associated with its immaturity relative to other aspects of business, a panel including some of Australia's leading chief information officers has concluded.

  • Microsoft, Adobe in document showdown?

    Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant Microsoft.

  • Succeeding in integration: Part two

    Nothing succeeds like other people's success if you can learn from their experiences, that is.

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