Over the Christmas break my husband decided to buy a car (during the one brief moment when he wasn't asking me where things were). Gotta admit it took me by surprise: First he's no rev-head and second, we already had two in the garage (and I don't drive).
No, that’s not the outstanding balance on my Amex after a recent overseas trip (although my last statement didn’t include every last purchase, so it may well be close). Nope, what that big old number represents is the combined IT spending power of the 257 CIOs who participated in the State of the CIO survey, this month’s cover story. You gotta admit that’s a fair chunk of change.
Sebastian Junger has a lot to answer for in my book (pun intended).
Over the Christmas hols my husband and I, for the first time in almost 20 years of marriage, spent two uninterrupted weeks together. At home. Alone. And that’s why knowledge management is the topic de jour this month.
And there he was there in force, kicking off the first-day keynote, meeting with a covey of clients and going "one-on-one" in the advisory sessions, all of which left him a bit hoarse, but no less vocal, during an interview with CIO - one of a handful he gave during his visit.
You can't help but get in a reflective mood as the year winds down and you're putting your last issue to bed. So I did a bit of soul searching and decided it was time for a career change.
This is a true story. And like all good stories it has heaps of strong emotions - with some of the seven virtues and lashings of the seven deadly sins. There's hope, persistence, anger, despair, arrogance and sloth, but greed is most definitely absent from the list.
The "chatter" has been around for a while, but recently the volume's lifted significantly, and when I speak with vendors, I'm hearing it quite a bit these days. It usually goes something like this: "It's all about getting information out to employees and empowering them to make decisions."
Open to interpretation. You need to have raised a child or two to truly appreciate the inherent risk of that phrase.
Without telling you more than you need to know, there are not too many situations more frustrating for a woman than trying on a bathing suit in the middle of winter.
When I was around seven years old an older - and supposedly wiser - friend gave me some advice on eating Popsicles. She told me that if I bit the top off the Popsicle it wouldn't melt as fast.
Do you remember Evil Bill and Evil Ted? No, well then you obviously didn't have kids the same age as mine. But if you do remember them, then you know all about evil doppelgangers - and I am starting to believe in them.
It's time to put paid to the irritating and ill-informed mewings of those who continue to insist that CIO means "career is over", that the CIO role is moribund, that the chances of a CIO exchanging the I for an E in his or her title are equal to those of a snowball in hell
At exactly 3:18pm last Saturday I saw the light. The truth set me free. Hallelujah. Amen. Pass the plate. My revelation? I discovered why some companies choose to outsource some or all of their IT operations.
Back in February, Com Bank managing director David Murray certainly caused a brouhaha when he took on Microsoft and - supposedly - IT in general at the World IT Congress in Adelaide.