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• Leadership is demonstrated, not measured

  Bradley de Souza calls for an end to the current 'leadership by numbers' obsession - and why failing a leadership exam isn’t always the worst outcome.

• Why does IT exist?

  The fundamental information within an organisation is way more important than any of the technology used to manage that information. This is what the ‘I’ in CIO represents, writes Geoff Lazberger. So how do you impress upon the executive team the real value of information?

• Me & my PSP Go

  After a year and a half of availability, Sony has finally pulled the plug on the PSP Go. It's safe to say no one's upset about this. Although excitement for it grew when it was embarrassingly leaked weeks before it was official, that excitement almost completely reversed upon release. It's not one of Sony's best moments, but tech trends often need that one entity to push forward, crash and burn, and have someone else learn from their mistake.

• Measuring the health of corporate security

  The last thing any of us need these days is another uninformed discourse on health care, but I tend to wade in where others have the common sense to keep out.

• Blog: What a CIO says, and what he's really thinking

  CIOs are famous for their generic, canned and oftentimes boring remarks on anything from ERP and clould computing, to vendor relations and social media technologies.

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  State of Hybrid Cloud

  This report looks at the state of hybrid cloud based on a 600-organisation survey across the APAC region, focusing on their current usage and attitudes towards on and off premise, private and hybrid cloud service provision. Find out the top rated perceived benefits for adoption, the major barriers that are holding organisations back and what the future holds for investment in this technology.

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  Outsourcing your ICT won’t save you money