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• IT decisions and spending no longer under CIO control, survey reveals

  Nearly 70 per cent of organisations in Australia are content for IT decisions and spending to be driven by business units, away from the direct control of the CIO.

• Why CIO tenures in Australia are getting shorter

  ​The typical chief information officer tenure, or so goes the noughties C-Suite folklore, works to a five year cycle...

• Many companies are not GDPR-compliant: report

  Despite undertaking measures to improve data security and privacy, 38 per cent of global organisations responding to a survey say they are still not compliant with the new general data protection regulation (GDPR) requirements.

• Visa fix won’t ease tech skills shortage: panel

  The government’s 457 visa fix will not help the Australian tech industry effectively address the ongoing skills crisis, according to panelists at a recent CIO Australia breakfast event in Melbourne.

• When it comes to innovation, size doesn’t matter

  An organisation’s size has little impact on its ability to innovate regardless of whether it has a turnover of $50m or $500m. The likelihood of any organisation – apart from the smallest of companies – being innovative hovers around the 20 to 27 per cent mark.

• CIOs expecting tenures to last five years or less

  Many CIOs expect to be in their roles for five years or less, according to new research.

• Tech projects more complex now than five years ago: research

  Project complexity, innovation efforts, and increasing cyber security vulnerabilities were put under the spotlight in the 2017 Harvey Nash/KPMG annual CIO survey.

• ​Today's tech skills redundant within a decade

  Almost half of the IT workers responding to a global survey believe that within 10 years their job will be automated, rendering their current skills redundant.

• ​Look out DevOps specialists, the Brazilians are coming

  When Brazilian IT professional Hafid Sousa was looking to expand his career prospects with a move abroad, Australia was high on his radar.

• ​Salary the top reason technologists quit jobs

  A good salary was the top reason why IT workers worldwide would change jobs in 2015 and 38 per cent of Australian technologists planned to leave their employer in the next year.
  

• CEOs see IT as revenue creating more than cost saving

  There has been a reverse in the interest of CEOs in IT projects that save the business money to initiatives that make money, Harvey Nash’s latest CIO survey has revealed.

• Hot tech skills in 2014

  Tech experts with skills in enterprise architecture, cloud, mobile development, as well as user experience and design will be in high demand this year across Australia.
  

• In pictures: Harvey Nash Sydney CIO event

  IT leaders gathered at Sydney's Four Seasons Hotel to discuss the results of global recruiter Harvey Nash's 15th Annual CIO Survey for 2013.

• CIOs see potential for innovation, but lack delivery: survey

  There are only a few CIOs who are delivering on their innovation initiatives in their organisations, with the majority struggling to find the time and resources to make it happen, according to Harvey Nash’s 2013 global CIO survey.

• Almost one-third of CIOs looking for a new job: survey

  Just under a third of CIOs are planning to take up a role with a different organisation within the next 12 months, according to recruiter Harvey Nash’s 2013 global CIO survey.