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• Business units dominate IT spending: study

  Business units are now the major drivers behind technology spend in Australia and New Zealand, causing business-wide integration challenges at unprecedented levels, an IBRS study has found.

• In pictures | CIO roundtable on how to meet the demands of today’s tech savvy staff - the Cloud Worker

  One in four workers in today’s enterprises are already cloud workers, reports Forrester. They want flexibility and mobility; to get work done on any device, anytime, from any place. So how do we prepare for this environment? A group of business technology leaders gathered in Perth to discuss how to meet the demands of this tech savvy group.

• Soft skills now an essential focus of IT recruitment

  Soft skills are becoming an essential focus of IT recruitment, with customer service and communication skills now weighted quite heavily for low level infrastructure support roles, according to the latest Hays Quarterly Report.

• In pictures: The best ways to achieve operational intelligence roundtable

  CIO brought together business and IT leaders from an array of Australian organisations on March 31 to discuss ways to harness big data for growth and innovation during the shift to digital.

  Here are pictorial highlights from the lunch, held at Aria Restaurant in Sydney. The roundtable was sponsored by Splunk.

• Big Data shows potential for human resources: IBM

  Can analytics be applied to human resources? According to IBM A/NZ human resources director, Robert Orth, the technology giant is already experimenting within the possibilities.

• Why SaaS HR Software Is Ready to Take Off

  It's estimated that 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies plan to replace their human resources management software in the next four years. Many are replacing these legacy on-premises systems--some of which date back to the 1960s--with cloud-based HR systems. On top of hardware savings, enterprises using SaaS HR say they spend less on support.

• One Team Selling

  Fast tracking your greatest competitive weapon in tough conditions

• 10 questions for BroadSoft CFO James Tholen

  Q&A with James Tholean, CFO for BroadSoft

• Former Google CIO says business misses key people marks

  The former CIO of Google and founder and CEO of ZestCash, Dr Douglas Merrill, says companies stuck in traditional management practices risk becoming irrelevant and leaders should not be afraid to do 'dumb' things.