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• Defence personnel IT system replacement “over budget and behind schedule”

  A long-running Defence IT project, for which Accenture is an integration partner, has come under fire for cost overruns and delays.

• ​Carl Duckinson new Aurecon CIO

  Toll Group’s former interim CIO, Carl Duckinson, is the new IT chief at the Melbourne office of global engineering and advisory company, Aurecon.
  

• A CIO-CMO partnership in the fast lane

  How Williams Martini Racing’s CIO, Graeme Hackland and Avanade CMO, Stella Goulet work together to provide the perfect mesh of technology and marketing at this year’s Formula One racing events.
  

• IT shops losing control over technology

  A survey of more than 1,000 C-level executives shows that IT organizations are losing control over new technology adoption at their companies but are still held accountable for integrating the technologies securely into their company's infrastructure.

• IT buyers starting to look a lot like consumer shoppers

  A survey of 1000 business and IT decision makers shows a blurring line between the business-to-business and business-to-consumer (B2C) sales process. That is, technology buyers are starting to resemble mall shoppers.

• Profile IT: MCC general manager of IT and innovation, Rey Sumaru

  Heading up IT at the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) has been a dream come true for Rey Sumaru, an avid sports fan.

• Microsoft, Accenture joint venture Avanade sued over alleged ERP project failure

  A half-million lines of custom code wasn't enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for point-of-sale and RFID products distributor ScanSource, according to a lawsuit it has filed against Avanade, the joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture.

• IT increasingly bypassed on cloud adoption

  IT departments, long criticized as being too slow in offering new technologies and services, may be facing a grassroots rebellion in many companies over cloud services.

• Australian execs rank second in the world for collaboration: study

  Some 45 per cent of Australian executives spend up to and more than 40 hours per week collaborating, according to a global study commissioned by IT services firm, Avanade. And, true to the spirit of the term, the study shows that Australian executives prefer to 'collaborate' as part of a team. The study was commissioned by Avanade and conducted by Kelton Research, which interviewed more than 500 C-level executives, IT decision makers and business unit leaders from 17 countries during February, 2010.

• Avanade MD makes his case for cloud computing

  With Microsoft increasingly talking up cloud computing it is not unexpected that Avanade, the consultancy dedicated to using the Microsoft platform, and which was co-founded by Microsoft, is starting to talk up the benefits of running services in the cloud. To get a little more of a local insight where he thinks the market is positioned and what Avanade can offer organisations, we spoke to Craig Dower, managing director, Avanade Australia.