Victoria's Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has started looking for a new chief information officer, with incumbent Susan Greenwood to leave the position.
Former Visy Industries CIO Roland Spitty has joined the ranks of Australian supply and demand system vendor SolveIT Software.
In today's highly dynamic banking world, top-ranking technology tsars tend to change roles or company every few years. But some have more longevity. Long-time AMP chief information officer Lee Barnett fills us in on her priorities, seven years after she first won her role.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has appointed a new chief information officer, who has been in place since mid January.
Victorian shared services agency CenITex signed a contract with its then CIO Bruce Carlos which agreed to pay him $396,000 for a year's work, the state's tendering system has revealed.
This week the Australian online banking system was tested by an agent of KAOS Kevin Rudd and his $10 billion dollar fiscal package that, as Agent 86 would say, "missed it by that much" on knocking out the banking system.
While some states boast about procurement plans and how much they'll boost industry coffers, the NSW government appears to be heading in the opposite direction.
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Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.
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Is Australia and New Zealand Banking Group suffering from a lack of strategic IT leadership as its year-long search for a new chief information officer drags on?
How on earth can organisations justify paying their IT executives millions of dollars in bonuses, or in the case of the public sector, handing out salaries of half a million dollars?
The average traveller may think of air travel in terms of security checks and airport lounges, but Melbourne Airport IT manager Mark Funston has a completely different perspective.
A series of inspiring conversations with Australian chief information officers over the past five years has led me to believe the profession and ICT industry as a whole has the attitude, skills and drive to push through the global financial crisis and other challenges to the better world ahead.
Get an insider's look at the recent history and potential imminent future of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's technology operation in the third of our Changing of the guards series examining generational change in the nation's big four banks.
Billy Hinners, CIO of Autodesk speaks to ZDNet Editor-in-chief Dan Farber about creating design software for its eight million customers in the construction, media and manufacturing industries. He also talks about the company's green strategy, his 20 years in product development and transitioning to his new role as CIO.
At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Symantec CEO John Thompson talks about three security trends he believes will significantly impact the tech industry in the years to come. He predicts that malicious software will outnumber legitimate software; identity management will grow far beyond the enterprise; and digital-rights management will become...
In this Super Techies interview, tech star Marc Benioff talks with CNET's Dan Farber about his career as a business entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Benioff discusses his early work as a programmer for Apple; honing his sales and marketing skills with industry mogul Larry Ellison at Oracle; and his current...
JP Rangaswami, managing director at BT Design, talks about transformation and convergence at one of the worlds' largest telecommunication companies, and, his belief in Web 2.0 and the power of social networking. Rangaswami speaks with ZDNet's Dan Farber, sharing his visionary thoughts about the tech industry. And why he calls himself the managing director instead of chief information officer.
When Paul Coby became British Airways CIO five years ago, the airline's very existence was under threat as a financial crisis engulfed the entire travel industry following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In this Vision Series video interview, Coby explains technology's role in BA's remarkable turnaround.
Why do it vendors insist on creating catchy phrases to sum up their products? Is it to further confuse us, or are they really trying to help?
Getting a firewall to do what it promises--protect the network--doesn't begin with an equipment purchase and end with the plug-in. It starts with security assessment and continues with constant vigilance.
Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.
The GPS system originated as a military application; its business uses now have CIOs interested. How can it can help your business with tracking applications?
With chip makers chomping at the bit to update systems to create a 64-bit world, CIOs need to ask the tough question, "why?" This article provides compelling arguments for the switch.
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