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  • 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.

  • Sydney Uni gets new CIO

    The University of Sydney has a new chief information officer, with incumbent Robert MacKinnon having passed on the reins to Bruce Meikle in January this year.

  • 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.

  • Citibank nabs Aussie Home Loans CIO

    Former Aussie Home Loans chief information officer Steve Lindsay will take a top spot in Citibank's consumer operation after leaving the mortgage specialist in late June.

  • Asteron ready for Suncorp IT integration

    The CIO of local financial services company Asteron has signalled his group is ready for the extensive technology integration work due to commence shortly as Suncorp swallows Asteron's parent Promina.

  • Ex-Telstra CIO Smith nabs Suncorp role

    Former Telstra CIO Jeff Smith has been appointed group executive, Information Technology, of the new financial giant created by the multi-billion dollar merger of insurers Suncorp and Promina.

  • 'Green' ANZ CIO wages war on servers

    ANZ CIO Peter Dalton is on a mission to remove as many as 400 servers from the bank's infrastructure by the year's end as part of its ambitious environmental targets.

  • Aussie Home Loans CIO walks ... and now talks

    update: Aussie Home Loans has lost its second chief information officer in nine months, but Christopher Hatzidis says he's left the mortgage specialist on good terms.

Features and Case Studies

  • Charles Schwab: Gideon Sasson, CIO

    Gideon Sasson, the CIO of financial services giant Charles Schwab, talks to ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber about mistakes the company made during the dot com bust, and says innovation used to start with technology, but now IT is more closely aligned with the business. Below are excerpts from the video interview.

  • Commonwealth Bank: Michael Harte, CIO

    ZDNet Australia meets with Michael Harte, CIO of the Commonwealth Bank to find out his views on security and sourcing (both out- and open-).

  • CIOs must bridge gap between business and tech

    The CIO must act as the link between IT and the wider strategy of the business, and not get too bogged down in technology alone.

  • Offshoring: How far, how deep?

    The question on the lips of most CIOs is no longer whether to send work offshore. It's a question of how much to send.

  • Networking CIOs

    A compelling force has come to the fore, with its eye set on products and services.

  • Aust CIOs becoming business clairvoyants

    CIOs, CTOs and IT managers are increasingly being called on to look into their crystal balls to predict the future, and then translate the options into language management can understand.

  • Empower your IT staff to make decisions

    IT chiefs at financial services organisations should encourage staff to take greater control of business decisions, says JP Rangaswami, global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

  • 10 mobile trends: Should you care?

    silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?

  • 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.

  • Get executive buy in: BankWest CIO

    Australian businesses need to make IT leaders part of the executive team to drive business strategy, according to one leading CIO.

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Blogs

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    Celebrity comes with its perks — free alcohol, better-looking partners, lots of holiday time — and disadvantages — constant media intrusions, being forced to appear in films with Eddie Murphy for the long-term good of your career, and having to do mindless radio interviews with angry men who've been awake since 4am.
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    Earlier this month, Telstra put out a press release trumpeting that it's come up with a new phone coaching service to help people who are "bamboozled" by their mobiles. Another excellent example of wrongheaded thinking from the mobile industry.
  • Array Dear carriers: More walking, less talking
    Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all — and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.
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