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• ​Melbourne appoints first chief digital officer

  The City of Melbourne has appointed PwC partner Michelle Fitzgerald as Victoria’s first ever chief digital officer.
  

• Agile: The good and the not so good

  What are the positives and negatives of deploying an Agile work environment?

• Government on the hunt for tech talent

  The federal government’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has announced a national recruitment drive to recruit design, research and technology specialists to create public services.
  

• Why half your projects will fail this year

  If you believe the statistics, around 61 per cent of the projects you work on this year will fail.

• Transform your business or pay the price

  There is more pressure than ever on CIOs to capitalise on digital opportunities. Traditional, well-established business models are being swept aside by more nimble and agile businesses created through digital innovations.
  

• Agile authentication: Techie toy or digital business imperative?

  The move to digital services and the rapid pace of technological change means IT infrastructure decisions have become business decisions, and a new term has entered the lexicon – ‘business agility.’
  

• Sydney home to new Pivotal innovation lab

  A new Pivotal Labs office in Sydney will be a software innovation hub for Telstra’s enterprise customers, following a new agreement between the companies.
  

• The path to Agile: Successes and slip-ups

  IT and digital execs from News Corp, CommBank, and Australia Post discuss why Agile is still very much a work in progress.

• NAB CIO to vendors: Stop flogging 'old world' software

  NAB CIO, David Boyle, has urged software suppliers to stop ‘flogging old-speed IT offerings’ that don’t allow his IT team to make changes easily.

• Balancing outsourcing with Agile development

  The ‘keeping mum effect’, or reluctance to report bad news about a distressed project, is alive and well in our time-compressed, competitive, uncompromising and globalised business environments.
  

• How to achieve Agile business intelligence success

  The Agile development approach to data management and business intelligence projects is seeing greater take up by CIOs as public and private sector firms demand faster, more measurable returns on their information investments.
  

• CIO of REA Group: Step into the 21st century office

  It may be easy to overlook how the work environment influences productivity and job satisfaction, but it’s something business executives ought to really pay attention to. Nobody really wants to spend day in, day out in a rigid office.

• 'Service revolution' driving customer growth at Westpac: Kelly

  The 'service revolution' strategy that Westpac embarked on this year has helped drive customer growth for the bank according to chief executive Gail Kelly.

• Why GE Australia wants to invest in software innovation

  GE Australia CIO Mark Sheppard has pitched the creation of a local ‘software centre of excellence’ to GE's global CEO, Jeff Immelt, as part of a process of the conglomerate devolving more software development to regional subsidiaries.

• What they don’t teach you at CIO school

  An MBA graduate recently told me that most of the frameworks and theories he learnt during the course he had already forgotten.