The good oil
“Giving the business the freedom to be the business” is what Peter Powell sees as his main task.
View ArticleFocus on client engagement, connecting people with information
Not many CIOs would have 23 million stakeholders, nor would they be working for an organisation that has been around for more than a century, has an organisation-wide budget of $4.6 billion, and an...
View ArticleLooking for change
A billion dollar enterprise that employs just over 4500 people. An organisation that is pushing the boundaries of new communications technologies. A corporation that is constantly developing new...
View ArticleWhen technology is your business
Ajay Bhatia, CIO at Carsales.com is one of three CIOs facing unique challenges at online classified sites where delivering digital services is at the heart of their organisations.
View ArticleSolving the skills conundrum – part 1
When Bill Weeks took over as CIO of the US asset-recovery company, SquareTwo Financial, he saw 70 per cent of his development team out the door. Most left of their own accord; he fired the rest.
View ArticleSolving the skills conundrum – part 2
In the second and final part of this series on skills, we look at why providing IT staff with more formal education and hiring people with non-IT degrees may help to address the shortage of talent.
View ArticleGood communications
Carsten Larsen is not the CIO of the organisation he works for, despite the fact that he talks, lives and breathes IT. “I love IT, it’s my passion,” he says.
View ArticleBusiness relations
“The phrase ‘IT and the business’ does not sit well with me,” says Andrew Lock, CIO of George Weston Foods (GWF).
View ArticleAvoiding IT project disasters
Technology projects are often seen as a ‘recipe for disaster’ but you can change that perception with good governance.
View ArticleThe sharp-eyed CIO
Neill Rose-Innes has a strong focus on the business as CIO and GM of operations at Mortgage Choice. But he says acquiring and retaining customers is what it's really all about.
View ArticleWe mean business
After completing a graduate training program at the Commonwealth Bank, Bettina Wilcox realised that the technology sector was where she really wanted to be.
View ArticleYou can bet on IT
When you’re helping to run a multi-billion dollar enterprise and close to 10 per cent of revenue comes in on one day of the year, then you know there are serious pressures to keep the lights on. That...
View ArticleThe physics of a healthy business
Monash Health’s Dr Philip Nesci is not your typical CIO. He holds a doctorate in nuclear physics and authored a book on "Inelastic Proton Scattering as a Test of Nuclear Spectroscopy" in the late 1970s.
View ArticleLeadership's tug of war
Women in IT face cultural and career barriers in their jobs. But those who also hold senior c-level positions face a double set of pressures – gender and business-based issues.
View ArticleMaking the case for Agile
Agile methodology is moving out of the software development team and becoming a core part of IT and business collaboration.
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