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• Machine learning to save fuel and fixes on Navy vessels

  ​An analytics application developed by CSIRO’s Data61 will be used to predict engine failure and reduce fuel consumption on Royal Australian Navy vessels.

• GE’s ANZ boss Geoff Culbert quits

  GE Australia and New Zealand’s president and CEO, Geoff Culbert, has quit his post and will join Sydney Airport as its chief executive in January.

• Qantas pilots get flight data app

  A new flight data application is providing Qantas pilots with data to help them fly more efficiently and help reduce carbon emissions.

• The armed and potent digital leader: How to become a ‘digital dragon’

  Organisations like GE will continue to emerge from the edge of known markets and sectors: quick, silent and stealthy, yet metaphorically "breathing fire" to ignite red-hot competitive tension.

• ​Qantas tapping data to improve flight efficiency

  Data scientists, engineers and software designers from Qantas and GE will analyse some of the 10 billion data points produced by the aviation sector annually to help the carrier cut fuel costs and carbon emissions.

• ​GE buys Australian startup Daintree Networks

  GE business unit, Current, has purchased Melbourne-based technology startup, Daintree Networks for $100 million in its first global acquisition since its launch in October last year.
  

• How a giant like GE found home in the Cloud

  During the past few years, leaders at General Electric have been aggressively migrating the 123-year-old company to the Cloud. But it hasn’t been easy. GE’s CTO for IT explains what roadblocks the industrial giant encountered, and what he’s doing now to ensure other companies who follow suit have a smoother journey.

• ​Mark Sheppard: The software innovator

  Mark Sheppard is living proof that a CIO can successfully make the move from managing internal IT to taking commercial roles selling technology to the external world.
  

• ​GE’s Mark Sheppard steps into regional role

  Mark Sheppard has moved into the role of digital lead for Asia-Pacific at GE.

• ​Simon Moorfield new AGL CIO

  AGL Energy Limited (AGL) has appointed Simon Moorfield as CIO, following a restructure earlier this year, which saw the company roll finance and IT into one business unit.
  

• GE unveils data analytics cloud

  GE is entering the cloud market with what it claims is the world’s first solution designed specifically for industrial data and analytics.
  

• GE launches industrial Internet PaaS

  GE took its industrial Internet platform to the cloud today with the announcement of Predix Cloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering designed specifically for industrial data and analytics.

• GE in mammoth Office 365 rollout

  General Electric (GE) will deploy Microsoft Office 365 to more than 300,000 staff across 170 countries worldwide following a new agreement between the two companies.
  

• GE, Pitney Bowes team up on predictive and prescriptive analytics

  GE and Pitney Bowes are going to bring the power of predictive and prescriptive analytics to mail production mail.

• CIO year in review

  2014 was an eventful year for CIOs, with many starting new initiatives in mobility, wearables, machine learning and tapping into open data. Many CIOs also decided to change jobs and move to greener pastures.