Stories by Sue Bushell

There are a huge number of risks in being the man or woman called upon to drag the organization kicking and screaming into a new reality

Digital signatures take the concept of traditional paper-based signing and turn it into a digital "fingerprint" enable local governments to easily migrate from cumbersome paper-based processes to a secure and efficient paper-free environment.

Just how distinguished are you?

Sydney's Kogarah Council has become the first local government in Australia to introduce "fuzzy logic" modelling into its Stormwater Drainage Assets Condition Model.

E-learning in Australian vocational education and training institutions is growing rapidly

Are businesspeople set to subsume the CIO role? Are CIO mentors at risk of badly letting down the mentorees who aspire to follow in their footsteps? Are CIO-aspirants from within the ranks of IT doomed to disappointment?

Effective collaboration should be about innovation, employee empowerment and the achieving of vastly improved services through the drawing on of what James Surowiecki calls <I>The Wisdom of Crowds</I>

CIOs should never forget that while new technologies have a maturity cycle, the maturity cycle for human beings in IT is even longer

If necessity is the mother of invention, then principal strategist in the commercial division of the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance Terry Wright reckons she raises brilliant children

A research project into agile government conducted by the Victorian State Services Authority in conjunction with UK think tank Demos examines some of the barriers to agility facing governments.

CIOs may have learnt the hard way how vital it is to continually sell IT and its services to the organization, but the vast majority seem to have failed to absorb the lesson when it comes to the ongoing need to sell themselves

The Victorian government's Investment Management Standard and Investment Logic Maps is now being applied to all types of government investments and is delivering both process savings and benefits.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann once told Harvard Professor Howard Gardner the most valued personal trait in the twenty-first century would be a facility for synthesizing information

Telehealth has the potential to change the delivery of healthcare but faces multiple challenges to widespread adoption, according to a report by independent market analyst Datamonitor.

Has the end of the Cold War and the triumph of capitalism around the globe weakened the fibre of the West, robbing developed nations of their raison d'etre? Has the rush of digital technology and the fecklessness of global dynamism turned the corporation arthritic just when it should be at its zenith? Is the "B-school fad" of business process engineering at least in part to blame?