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As CIOs and IT managers move up the corporate ladder--focusing more on strategic issues--do they lose touch with the day-to-day technical concerns facing their IT divisions?
Difficult team members, excessive workloads and project overload--Australia's IT professionals are grappling with how to cope with doing more tasks, in less time with shrinking resources.
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There's a huge amount of satisfaction in seeing a system you've set up functioning in the way you intended, according to one telco CTO.
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