Thursday | 21 August, 2008
Forrester Report Calls for IT Culture Overhaul
IT department culture is probably not a match with overall corporate culture in about half of all businesses
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Business Analysts: A key to success
Make the most of your BA’s, they could open new doors for your enterpriseBusiness analysts and the work they perform are becoming increasingly important to companies. - +
Fiat alive & kicking thanks in part to tech policy
Collaboration, agility and virtualisation were crucial ingredients in Fiat’s revival and can make any project run more smoothlyAn IBM survey has found that CEOs feel that their companies are slow in responding to organizational challenges, including new ways to take advantage of technology. - +
Creating Lead Time
How demand forecasting helped Titan increase lead time.It is known as the second largest moon in the solar system. Closer to home, Titan is an Indian company that manufactures over nine million watches. But the similarity doesn't end with the name. - +
Expanding Green IT
You can't be a green warrior if you're not part of a team.Squeezed between a woodworking unit and a grimy garage is a tiny billboard workshop in Bangalore that says: 'We Use Eco-Freindly [sic] Plastics'. Set in its surroundings, it's a somewhat incongruous place to find a green advertisement -- given that until recently 'eco-friendly' was a concept aimed at a more elitist market. If green has found a home in a hole-in-the-wall, it's a testament to the way it's being marketed. - +
Defence IT Building Credibility with Services
Defence CIO Greg Farr is confident that within 12 months Defence will finally have a better grip on service level managementDefence CIO Greg Farr is confident that within 12 months Defence will finally have a better grip on service level management - +
Project Management: The 14 Most Common Mistakes IT Departments Make
The 14 most common IT project management mistakes and ways to avoid themThe 14 most common IT project management mistakes and ways to avoid them
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Project Management: The 14 Most Common Mistakes IT Departments Make
The 14 most common IT project management mistakes and ways to avoid themThe 14 most common IT project management mistakes and ways to avoid them - +
Refocusing Projects Onto Business Value, Part 15: Portfolio Management
The Portfolio Management Office (PMO) should streamline processes, minimize delays and deal with the critical success factors that cross project and program boundariesThe Portfolio Management Office (PMO) should streamline processes, minimize delays and deal with the critical success factors that cross project and program boundaries
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Creating Lead Time
How demand forecasting helped Titan increase lead time.It is known as the second largest moon in the solar system. Closer to home, Titan is an Indian company that manufactures over nine million watches. But the similarity doesn't end with the name. - +
CIO Reality Check: Linux Security
The open source community might be abuzz with security discussions, but what do the CIOs of real-world companies have to say?In our conversations, we spoke to Sam Lamonica, CIO of Rudolph and Sletten Construction, a general building contractor; Philipp Huber, CTO/COO of the UK based XCalibre Communications, a hosting firm; Clyde Williams, Infrastructure Systems Manager for Southeast Alabama Medical Center; and Walt Cornelison, Director of Information Technology for Tropitone Furniture, a manufacturer of high-end outdoor furniture. Here's how our conversation went:
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Marriott Takes Disaster Recovery, Virtualization Underground
Marriott's disaster recovery center is 220 feet underground in a limestone mineHurricane Katrina and the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center caused scores of companies to reconsider their disaster recovery and business continuity plans, whether they were affected by those catastrophic events or not. - +
PDF Key to Digital Preservation — But Not Alone
UK organization says agencies must combine PDF/A with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policiesUK organization says agencies must combine PDF/A with a comprehensive records management program and formally established records policies
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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue
An inside source reveals details of missteps and misunderstandings in the curious case of Terry Childs, network kidnapperLast Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on US$5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking a network hostage for reasons unknown, but new information from a source close to the situation presents a different picture. - +
The staff, the thief, the device and its data
The spate of recent data loss scandals has made mobile data security a hot topic, but the right tools and best-practice policy can mitigate the riskData being leeched from company databases by less secure mobile devices is a common occurrence, making data leakage the big technology issue of 2008. With the increasing use of mobile phones, PDAs and laptops as work tools, important company data is removed from the office every day.
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Defence IT Building Credibility with Services
Defence CIO Greg Farr is confident that within 12 months Defence will finally have a better grip on service level managementDefence CIO Greg Farr is confident that within 12 months Defence will finally have a better grip on service level management - +
CIO Reality Check: Linux Security
The open source community might be abuzz with security discussions, but what do the CIOs of real-world companies have to say?In our conversations, we spoke to Sam Lamonica, CIO of Rudolph and Sletten Construction, a general building contractor; Philipp Huber, CTO/COO of the UK based XCalibre Communications, a hosting firm; Clyde Williams, Infrastructure Systems Manager for Southeast Alabama Medical Center; and Walt Cornelison, Director of Information Technology for Tropitone Furniture, a manufacturer of high-end outdoor furniture. Here's how our conversation went:
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Entourage, IT Style: The CIO's Trusted Advisers
What's it take to be a superstar CIO? One thing is an entourage of trusted advisers, including project managers, recruiters, publicists and troubleshooters who keep top CIOs at the top of their gameWhat's it take to be a superstar CIO? One thing is an entourage of trusted advisers, including project managers, recruiters, publicists and troubleshooters who keep top CIOs at the top of their game - +
Where Everyone Works at Home
Here's how an entire company is learning to live without a corporate officeChorus, a provider of clinical, practice management and financial software for health care providers, closed its Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., headquarters in early June and its other office, in Stafford, Texas (outside of Houston), in early July; that means all of the company's 35 employees and full-time consultants work at home.
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Randy Mott Leads Overhaul of HP's Legacy Systems
Mott's mission was to overhaul the legacy systems and help turn HP from the bloated leviathan it had become into a lean, mean, agile organization.The day Randy Mott left Dell for Hewlett-Packard in 2005 it caused a stir in the IT world. At the time, HP was a company in transition. Its CEO Carly Fiorina had been ousted following the most tempestuous period in the company's history, and the new CEO Mark Hurd recognized immediately that a major change was necessary to stabilize the company. - +
Taking a Unified Approach to Legal Sector Growth
Graeme Low of law firm Mills & Reeve explains how IT has enabled law firms to grow rapidly and improve cost controlStrategic CIOs touch every point of the organization, even some areas that are not considered to be their immediate territory. Over the last decade law firms have changed from fusty redbrick elite clubs to thrusting commercial organizations that compete for business in a market where customers are now fully aware that they can shop around. For Graeme Low, head of IT at Cambridge based law firm Mills & Reeve, his role involves enabling a company to continue its recent record of rapid growth, provide systems that entice staff to join the company and improve communications to customers. He tells CIO how he and his team have achieved this.
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Managing the Consumer Tech Invasion
You’ve noticed it seeping into the IT workdayAn end user calls the support desk for help connecting a new iPod to the desktop. Another asks how to add Skype capability to the desktop. Consumer IT - technology and devices initially designed and marketed for use in the consumer space - has infiltrated the workplace - +
On the Training Track
The skills crisis gets personalI was prompted to evaluate my skills and training certifications when I saw a position description with our company that seemed eerily similar to my position on a job Web site. I'd ignored skills development over the past few years, having focused on getting my job done instead of training for possible future jobs
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2008 CIO Summit
19th August, 2008 Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney Developed in partnership with CIO Magazine, IDC, INTEP and the CIO Executive Council.
The world of the CIO is extremely complex and diverse. Multiple priorities demand attention and decisions are needed instantly. Individual teams need to be driven towards common goals, and businesses strive to become more mobile, agile and responsive. For CIOs, the challenge never ends.
Every year the CIO Summit identifies what is top of mind for CIOs across Australia and New Zealand, and offers insight for CIO benchmarking and vendor strategic planning alike.
Recent IDC research shows that over 59% of CIO's believe that 'to achieve their business strategies, technology should be used more aggressively than today.'
Join us on August 19th to discover how this is possible with the latest technologies including Virtualisation, Web 2.0, IP Surveillance and Software as a Service (Saas).
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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Reflections on a new internal data theft study 13 August, 2008 08:38:28
Who steals data, and what do they do with it? Cooper Bachman of ID Analytics scrutinizes research from a dozen data thefts resulting in 1,300 attempted instances of data misuse.While external data breaches involving household brand names such as TJX tend to grab more headlines, insider data thefts are emerging as compliance and reputational risks for organizations. Recent studies suggest that over 60 per cent of data breaches originate from an internal source or event. One reason for this is that in today's data-rich environment organizations continue to struggle with the 'human element' at the heart of data security. It can be extremely difficult to balance the protection of sensitive data with granting access to employees who need it to complete their daily job requirements. To that end, organizations have implemented several new security measures including employee education programs, data access monitoring, and strict policies regarding USB ports and portable devices. Although these are steps in a positive direction, little has been done to study and understand how the data is exploited once it leaves an organization. - +
How to root out rootkits 12 August, 2008 10:30:43
If you want to know about the latest malicious rootkit, ask security researcher Dino Dai Zovi. He'll tell you all about his proof of concept rootkit called Vitriol that uses virtual machine instructions in Intel processors to hide a rootkit at the virtualization layer.If you want to know about the latest malicious rootkit, ask security researcher Dino Dai Zovi. He'll tell you all about his proof of concept rootkit called Vitriol that uses virtual machine instructions in Intel processors to hide a rootkit at the virtualization layer. - +
Security and the generational divide 11 August, 2008 08:55:38
Why 'stay off my network, you rotten kids!' isn't a good coping strategyThe generation gap. It's a term that has been used for decades to describe the differences between people in various age groups. Corporations are constantly considering what makes different generations tick when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees. But security experts say companies also need to examine age-based perspectives and habits when it comes to risk assessment and policies. - +
Does your generation pose an office security risk? 11 August, 2008 08:25:03
The Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y each have their own bad habits.Whether you were born in the swinging sixties or are part of the slacker generation, some security experts say generational social influences can give you bad habits and make you an office liability. - +
Web 2.0 applications and sites (and security concerns) 11 August, 2008 08:45:59
One expert's breakdown of security issues created by social networking sites, BitTorrent and other Web 2.0 technologiesA recent survey released by security software firm Symantec found 66 per cent of Millennial employees, those born after 1980, admit to using Web 2.0 technologies, such as Facebook and YouTube, while at work. The same poll found younger workers also regularly store corporate data on personal devices, such as PCs and USB drives.
Maximizer Software Launches New Brand and Corporate Focus on Mobile CRM 20 August, 2008 14:12:00
NetStar NetWorks Helps Victorian Schools Collaborate and Learn 20 August, 2008 11:45:00
Open Text Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year-End 2008 Financial Results 20 August, 2008 10:58:00
Media Alert: The world’s most advanced online infection kit coming to an end 20 August, 2008 10:55:00
Caledonia Investments signs to update its existing HiPortfolio investment accounting solution 20 August, 2008 10:51:00
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