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    Chief information officers from two of Australia's largest banks today warned their peers not to poison outsourcing arrangements by obsessing over costs.

  • Skills shortage could scuttle Tanner's grand plan

    Unwieldy IT procurement has led to widespread duplication, according to the new finance minister, Lindsay Tanner. However questions remain over whether greater centralisation will lead to actual savings on the AU$6 billion the government spends on IT each year.

  • Baby boomers choking AU$11bn IT outsourcing

    IT outsourcing in Australia is set to crack AU$11 billion in 2008, according to Gartner, but Australia's dwindling IT baby boomer generation will cause problems

  • Satyam's Geelong plan to boost Aussie IT gene pool

    Outsourcer Satyam has announced a major investment in Geelong, Victoria's second city, where a full-scale campus will eventually provide training and global career opportunities for up to 2000 recent university graduates.

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    Satyam Computer Services has bucked talk of a skills shortage by unveiling a 150 seat regional solutions hub in North Sydney and plans to hire 100 Australian graduates.

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    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.

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    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • Do business people get IT?

    Everyone always says IT workers need to better understand business - but, asks Martin Brampton, could the real problem be business people who don't understand IT?

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    As the world's environment changes, scientists are becoming increasingly worried that large numbers of species will become extinct. Could this also happen in the corporate environment?

  • The right and wrong predictions of 2007

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