Corporate collapses and highly publicised financial mismanagement has been making headlines in 2002. But do issues about corporate governance affect the way Australian CIOs and IT managers make decisions?
Ericsson Australia and New Zealand has announced today that it intends to slash the number of its contractors in half and reduce its permanent workforce by around 100 over the next six months.
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A salary survey conducted by IT recruitment company Robert Walters suggests big money IT jobs may be on their way back.
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Corporate collapses and highly publicised financial mismanagement has been making headlines in 2002. But do issues about corporate governance affect the way Australian CIOs and IT managers make decisions?
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IT managers often find themselves in the unenviable position of trying to reconcile an overextended budget by midyear. Here are some of the reasons why this happens.
With Australia's ICT sector experiencing a wave of layoffs, it's time to look for the positives. Take a leaf out of Steve Jobs' book and ask yourself what would you be doing if money wasn't important?
The leaders of Australia's ICT industry are currently in a state of panic over the debatable prospect of an economic downturn in the sector and are going too far with cutting jobs.
While delivering an elegy for Mac OS 9, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has promised that Apple would ship the next major upgrade to OS X--including handwriting recognition--by the end of the year.
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