The new wave of government CIOs is business and relationship focussed, with IT knowledge being pushed into the background, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Australian information technology (IT) managers will struggle to become good chief information officers (CIO) unless they learn the skills to manage the role's increasingly strategic influence on business, according to former Telstra manager-turned-academic, Professor Steve Burdon.
Significant delays to the Australian Tax Office's five-year AU$700 million Change Program have not been caused by skills shortages, says ATO CIO, Bill Gibson.
The UK Department of Health has named the new leadership team that will direct the future of its mammoth e-health initiative, the NHS National Program for IT.
CSC has been awarded an outsourcing contract worth up to AU$21 million by West Australian electricity provider Western Power.
The more I think about the issues surrounding the under-representation of women in IT, the further I get from finding a solution. Overanalysis is a real drag. And that's why this year I'm going to be blogging direct from the FITT lunch.
ANZ CIO Peter Dalton thinks the bank may have an answer to improve retention of key IT staff -- send them to other companies.
With a star-studded employment history including a stint as the chief information officer of Telstra, Jeff Smith is one of Australia's top-flight technology executives.
The average annual salary of an Australian IT professional is currently $82,507, according to an extensive survey of the sector recently conducted by ZDNet.com.au.
Australian Customs CIO Murray Harrison dislikes SLAs and runs away if a vendor talks to him about innovation. In this interview, he also explains why getting excited about gadgets can be dangerous and talks about how Customs' outsourcing strategy has evolved.
In the second part of his interview, Defence CIO Greg Farr talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
Centrelink, Australia's welfare payment organisation, deals with millions of transactions and billions of dollars every week. CIO John Wadeson recently spoke to ZDNet.com.au about the challenges of running one of the country's largest IT infrastructures.
Suncorp CIO Jeff Smith talks about his recruitment strategy for IT skills.
Defence CIO Greg Farr (part two) talks about outsourcing, the skills crisis and reveals his most urgent IT priority.
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...
China and India's massive investments in education will pay dividends for Australia but CIOs will need to look at restructuring the organisation to make use of the abundance of skills in Asia, says Marcus Blosch, research VP, Gartner.
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.
You've got a lot invested in that current infrastructure, but there are those who are telling you it's time to upgrade. When is really the right time?
IBM has embraced wireless LAN technology at the Australian launch of its new PC range.
Can virtualisation help you simplify your storage management? And when will it be ready?
IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?
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