If there is anybody who understands the need for flexibility and scalability in a system, it’s Chris Yates from Tennis Australia. As the CIO of the governing body for tennis in the country, Yates oversees an IT strategy that is perhaps best known for supporting the organisation’s prestigious tournaments, including the Australian Open and Davis cup.
Human services is looking to handheld devices and analytics to assist with service delivery, deputy secretary for ICT infrastructure, John Wadeson, has told delegates at the SAS Forum in Sydney.
Two years ago, Human Services could only attract seven IT graduates to its workforce. If there was a silver lining to the global financial crisis, it was a reprieve from what has become an ongoing issue around IT graduates in Australia.
Organsations that want to survive in an ever-changing marketplace must supplement their business intelligence activities with business analytics, according to SAS senior vice-president and chief marketing officer, Jim Davis. Speaking at the SAS Forum in Sydney, Davis told delegates the past couple of years have provided a global challenge for enterprise that was unlikely to dissipate.
It’s the bête noire of C-level managers the world over — too often, it’s easy to be pulled into the morass of day-to-day issues at the expense of strategy. If the role is predominantly operational, fair enough, but being forced into operations when you were hired to be strategic (or vice versa) is frustrating for everybody involved. So how do CIOs balance operations and strategy? Aligning the departmental business plan with the organisation’s strategic plan is an obvious starting point. Beyond that, however, CIOs have developed their own methods of staying strategic.
It could be any meeting room, anywhere, with one major difference: The room, within Sheraton on the Park hotel in Sydney, is a gateway to the world. At the push of a button, we are chatting to colleagues in Toronto, Canada, speaking to each other as if we were seated across the table. We see the nuances of facial expressions, hand gestures and presentations, full-size, clear and uninterrupted.
Sydney Water has appointed Chris Ford as its new chief information officer, following the departure of Tim Catley in June, 2010.
Many executives aspire to a change in direction during their careers, and Rob Livingstone is living the dream. August 6 is the Ricoh CIO’s final day, after a decade with the company.
Was it a social network or a collaboration tool on steroids? Nobody could quite agree, and it’s one reason for the demise of Google Wave.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground has moved to an open source IP security system to manage high definition CCTV and ground access control.
The Department of Defence has signed Fujitsu for the delivery of multiple ICT services for its distributed computing central services (DCCS) contract, including the Defence Central ICT service helpdesk in a deal worth $151.3 million. The deal is one of two ICT contracts with the department worth more than $180 million. Defence has also signed Dimension Data in a two-year, $29 million deal to provide network hardware maintenance support.
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is back on the agenda to rise again particularly strategic M&As where a company buys and integrates another. In such an environment CIOs are playing an increasingly crucial role in integration success.
Movement continues within the CIO ranks as two more organisations advertise for chief information offices, including the federal Department of Health and Aging. The department is this week advertising for a Chief Information and Knowledge Officer to develop “a portfolio-wide framework for capturing, documenting and using information and knowledge”.
A new era has begun with the commencement of the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) program, a standardised approach to financial reporting across government agencies that could save businesses up to $800 million a year.
Wilson HTM Investment Group has signed a $16 million, five-year agreement with IntraPower Limited to move its complete IT infrastructure and application delivery to the cloud.