Stories by CIO Staff

Managing Risk, Protecting your Reputation

In 2015, it’s all about the customer. More than ever, buyers are demanding real-time access to just about every channel of service offered by a contact centre from voice to instant messaging to web chat and social media.

With so much interest around the Game of Thrones series, Adeptia, a software firm in the United States, has created an infographic that asks the questions: What if the houses of Game of Thrones produced CIOs? How would they lead?

CIO brought together business and IT leaders from an array of Australian organisations on March 31 to discuss ways to harness big data for growth and innovation during the shift to digital.

Here are pictorial highlights from the lunch, held at Aria Restaurant in Sydney. The roundtable was sponsored by Splunk.

CIO talks to Glenn Powell, general manager of Infront Systems, about how to move to a hybrid IT infrastructure model

The Department of Education NSW and Cisco have partnered to train 100,000 tertiary and and school students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills.

CIO talks to Eugene Talasch, principal at ET Business Solutions, about how to measure IT spend, negotiate lower costs, and ensure value is being maintained in long term technology contracts.

The big data hype cycle is well and truly over, and CIOs need to lead big data projects or risk getting left behind by competitors that are gaining business advantage from analysing the goldmine of data that lives in databases and on the corporate network.

St. George Bank has launched MyBusinessConnect, a range of cloud-based applications for small businesses and startups. The package is being provided by cloud solutions firm, BCSG.

CIO Australia talks to Tony Rossano at recruitment firm, Korn Ferry, about career strategies for 2015.

CIO Australia talks to three of Australia's top career experts to find out what companies are looking for when recruiting CIOs.

Tony Rossano, senior client partner, managing director, global technology markets, APAC at recruiter Korn Ferry, discusses how to use social media to improve your career prospects.

Leading IT recruiters talk about how CIOs can future-proof their careers in 2015.

CIO of Fortescue Metals Group, Vito Forte, will leave Fortescue Metals at the end of January, a company spokesperson has confirmed.

CIOs discuss how seamless communication between web-based devices and systems is transforming the way their businesses operate.