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  • Free change management templates
    If you forget change management when designing a project, you risk alienating users and wasting resources. Don't fall into that trap: uses these free change management templates to give your initiatives the best chance of success!
  • Sesame Street's 10 lessons for the IT department
    Seminal kids TV show 'Sesame Street' turned 40 this week. You may have been raised by the show and forgotten it since. But our columnist believes there are 10 lessons from the show that CIOs will do well to remember.
  • How to get your outsourcer innovating
    You can get more from outsourcing by writing contracts that encourage innovation and exploration of new technology models.
  • How IT can lead change management
    The CIO's role in organizational and IT change management is to ensure service availability and business support. Learn more about IT's role in change management.
  • Eight mistakes that can cost CIOs their careers
    When CIOs make mistakes, it can cost them their careers and send their organisations backwards. We list eight common career-killing CIO mistakes and explain how to avoid them.
  • Where to outsource? We assess India, China, the Philippines and Vietnam
    Considering offshoring some work? We look at what you can expect in India, China, the Philippines and Vietnam.
  • How one CIO graduated to become a business leader
    We interview Sanjay Sharma, the managing director and CEO of India's IDBI Intech, to learn how he rose from CIO to lead a major corporate turnaround.
  • Don't fire your project managers - you need them now more than ever!
    Good project managers can help CIOs to demonstrate why they need to keep their teams intact.
  • What to look for in a business analyst
    Learn about the skills to look for when you hire a business analyst in this Q&A and book extract with Barbara Carkenford, author of Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis.
  • Ten tips for midmarket CIOs
    From IT security and compliance to IT staffing and IT portfolio management, here are 10 maxims for success in the coming year, spanning people, process and technology.
  • Female CIOs must not let themselves be branded geek girls
    Female CIOs have two stereotypes to overcome, says the CIO of a global advertising agency.
  • CIOs take e-waste into their own hands
    Some CIOs are taking steps to clean up their companies' e-waste, which can otherwise end up in landfills or third-world countries.
  • Project management needs to get nimbler
    Project management practices need to change, argues Gartner, leaving CIOs to oversee more, smaller, faster projects over which they may have little control.
  • How to hire BI professionals
    Finding good business intelligence experts is tough. Get five tips on hiring good business intelligence pros in this tip!
  • Resistance to training: how to get your staff on-board
    It's not uncommon for a CIO, hired from the outside, to come on board only to discover that most of the staff is lacking in broader skill sets (they either know A or B skills, e.g., Windows or Java, but not both). As a CIO, you understand the importance of a well-trained, diverse IT staff, but as a newcomer, you wonder if it's wise to attempt to cross-train the staff, especially if you sense resistance. And with a limited training budget, you have to ask yourself: Is it worth the money?
  • Innovation Teams an essential tool to power growth
    Does your organisation have a team that drives innovation? Some CIOs believe dedicated innovators are an essential resource for business.
  • Commentary: How to solve the skills crisis
    Cisco says it is struggling to address industry's need for skilled networkers. We wonder if there is any way to help.
  • Gartner's China, India guide book
    A new book from Gartner offers valuable insights into China, India and their respective and combined impact on IT.
  • At Crayola, silos no more
    CIO Sandra Brandon has broken down barriers at historic crayon maker Crayola.
  • Business innovation in five (not-so-easy) steps
    Get past the cliches and on to business innovation by taking five practical steps from a Forrester Research analyst report.
  • Ten strategic technologies to watch in 2008
    Gartner picks the technologies that are likely to have the biggest impact on your business in the next 18 to 36 months.
  • Second Life job fairs boost IT prospects
    Companies are finding that Second Life is proving itself a worthwhile venue for finding future employees.
  • Best Buy age discrimination suit a reminder of outsourcing sensitivities
    Australian Computer Society Philip Argy believes Australian companies are fair in dealing with older employees, but US company Best Buy’s recent settlement of an age discrimination suit keeps the issue alive in CIOs’ minds.
  • ITIL tough but worth it, CIOs say
    Deakin University CIO Craig Warren has been living the ITIL way for four years now. Just another process? Perhaps. Yet as many companies are finding, using ITIL to build a well-tuned IT organisation also has its costs.
  • Project managers top CIOs' must-have list
    Doug Horsley, CIO at Perth based St John of God Health Care, knows the company's near total systems upgrade wouldn't have been possible without rigorous project management. While project managers were once a luxury most midmarket companies couldn't afford, a growing number of CIOs now say without a project manager, why bother?
  • PwC study: Majority of top executives bullish on outsourcing
    Forget the anti-outsourcing hype: Damian Smith, general manager for digital media with Network Ten, is one of a growing number of technology executives that know their business depends on it.
  • Forrester: Seven things to tell your CEO over coffee
    Forrester Research gives some conversation starters for your next coffee klatch with the CEO.
  • CIOs become teachers, shape new IT talent
    With enrollment in computer science programs down, CIOs must work with universities to make sure graduating students have the skills they need.
  • Gartner to CIOs: Think, talk and walk like a CEO
    Successful CIOs will become business leaders first, technology gurus second. Gartner analysts give CIOs a roadmap.
  • Business process outsourcing can be key for survival
    Executives like St Leonard’s College’s Brad Sims already know outsourcing can be critical to survival, but many technology executives in larger companies are finding it takes an impending catastrophe to drive acceptance of outsourcing.
  • Business intelligence projects fail without C-level ownership
    Westpac's Fernando Ricardo knows the bank's five-year, business intelligence-based customer service initiative would never have succeeded without senior executive sponsorship. However, recent figures suggest the majority of business intelligence deployments lack C-level executive ownership -- dooming them to failure.
  • CIOs scramble for the right project managers
    Boral’s Sally Milne knows how important it is to find good people when driving major change. Yet many CIOs report challenges finding the right project managers to meet growing pressure to deliver projects on time and on budget.
  • Email archiving: Four steps to ensuring success
    Compliance regulations and legal discovery issues are playing an increasingly important role in how emails are stored and retrieved. As a result, the need for email archiving has skyrocketed, and the CIO must play a significant role in making it work.
  • IT still trying to find what women want
    Macquarie University's Mary Sharp was startled to realised recently that the gender gap in her 50-strong team had tilted decisively against women. But as industry observers wrestle with how to right the imbalance, a Gartner analyst has taken a different perspective on the IT gender gap.
  • Gartner: Existing business continuity plans will fail in a pandemic
    Existing business continuity plans will not protect a company during an avian flu pandemic, says a Gartner analyst. Business continuity plans assume a geographically specific disaster, while a pandemic will strike everywhere nearly simultaneously.
  • ERP consolidation may be threatening innovation
    AMR research analyst Jim Shepherd and two top IT executives sound off on the pluses and perils of consolidation in the ERP space at AMR's recent conference in Boston.
  • IT spending: CIOs optimistic despite economic warning signs
    A positive economic outlook has CIOs feeling rosy about their IT spending next year, but economists warn shrinking corporate profit growth could burst their bubble.
  • The FAQs on ITIL version 3
    Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is in the works and will be published in late spring 2007. This updated version will focus more on service design, versus process. In his latest column, ITIL expert Brian Johnson answers some FAQs about the focus of ITIL version 3.
  • The road to innovation is a bumpy ride
    What's the saying? The road to IT purgatory is paved with good intentions. A solid roadmap can help your company move from a mere success story to innovation central.
  • Budget battle: Increasing the business value of IT
    CIOs who report only IT's "burn rate" and not the "earn rate" are just asking for their budgets to be cut. Gartner advises CIOs to frame the discussion in a new way: Yield.
  • Ballmer: Software is not dead
    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer assures IT pros that Microsoft will prevail. But was anyone worried?
  • Survey: CIOs lack confidence in their DR plans
    Despite the growing number of companies that say they have disaster recovery plans in place, many of those same executives say they have little confidence that those plans will be effective if tested.
  • CIO advice: It's OK to fail
    Many CIOs don't take risks because they're afraid of failure. Failure is good, says one CIO. Without failure, you can't innovate.
  • Dell defends Rollins, vows company turnaround
    In an attempt to stave off criticism that Dell failed to keep up with the competition, company execs pledge change -- with CEO Kevin Rollins still at the helm.
  • Business process management systems and tools for CIOs
    Business process management (BPM), whether they realize it or not, is practiced by all businesses. Of course, some do it better than others. To do it well, companies need to understand how their different business services affect one another and how to best mange those relationships. Here, you'll find the latest business process management news, tips and advice to help your organization run just a little bit smoother.
  • Application delays eat up 24% of IT staff time
    Business application performance delays have major effects on productivity, employee morale and customer loyalty, study finds.

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  • The trans-Tasman approach to ICT
    ICT decisions offer consider Australia and NZ as one unit. Gen-i's Rhoda Holmes outlines how centralisation of businesses can help operate 'across the ditch'.
  • Securing mobility
    Overcoming perceived management and security risks is critical to ensuring the success of increasingly mobile business environments, comments Mark Geddes, director of mobility solutions for Sybase.
  • Full service broadband - opportunities abound
    Australians place a huge importance on 'always-on' internet connectivity and increasingly expect to be contactable wherever they are, and that's official, according to the 2006 Ericsson ConsumerLab research, reports Bill Zikou, CEO of Ericsson Australia and new Zealand.
  • SMEs deserve better communications
    Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia are largely being denied the opportunity to optimise benefits from the latest in converged voice and data technology. It is not because there is a lack of understanding about the technology, nor is it from a lack of bandwidth. Phil Sykes, managing director, IProvide, reports on the reasons and the challenges that abound.
  • Building a culture of compliance
    In an already heightened cyber-threat environment where IT resources are constrained, organisations face intense pressure to maintain compliance with a variety of complex regulations. Symantec's Tim Hartman comments that even the smallest non-compliant business decision can become the weak link, leading to a data breach that might ultimately impact your company's brand integrity and consumer confidence.
  • Storage and security top business priorities
    In 2007, storage, management and securing of data are at the top of the list of priorities for businesses. Peter O'Connor, managing director, Australia and New Zealand, Network Appliance, discusses the state of data management and why it is critical to businesses.

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  • ITIL FAQs, Part 1
    Get the answers to the most frequently asked questions about ITIL here.
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