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• Aussie IT leaders: No streaming the Olympics in the office!

  Nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of Australian companies plan to stop employees from streaming Olympic Games coverage on work networks, according to a survey.

• You're out of touch! IT decision-makers tell c-suite

  Nine out of ten IT decision makers thought their organisation would perform better if their current c-suite were more tech-savvy, a ​​Wakefield research report commissioned by Juniper​ Network​s revealed.

• Outdated tech harming productivity says survey

  ​Nearly three quarters (72 per cent) of ANZ workers say outdated technology is harming their productivity, according to a survey by The Workforce Institute at Kronos.

• CIOs and CMOs reckon their relationships are "awesome": survey

  ​The CIO/CMO working dynamic is becoming more positive, with half of marketing and IT teams now describing their relationship as “collaborative” or “awesome”.

• Almost half of Australian digital consumers have accessed illegal content

  Nearly half of Australians who consume digital content have engaged in illegal copyright infringement, according to research from the Australian and UK governments.
  

• Data silos limit insights and raise costs: IDC

  Data silos within Asia Pacific organisations are raising IT costs and security risks, while limiting the ability of organisations to make insight-based decisions, according to IDC research released on Tuesday.

• Australian ICT usage 'very high': World Economic Forum

  Australia has demonstrated very high levels ICT usage in the past year, though we aren't very innovative, and the government could be doing more to encourage the use of technologies, a report by the World Economic Forum found.

• Women CIOs more positive about analytics and IT budgets: Gartner

  Female CIOs are significantly more positive about analytics and growing IT budgets than male CIOs, but more negative about risk, a Gartner report said.

• Risk management lagging in digital world

  Two thirds of CIOs believe their risk management strategies are failing to keep up with new threats created by the shift to digital, a Gartner survey has found.
  

• Workplace culture in SMEs thwarting innovation

  Seven in 10 small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are failing to innovate due to unhealthy workplace culture, according to a new Microsoft report.

• Nearly half telework under informal policy: study

  Teleworking is increasing even while many businesses in Australia and New Zealand lack written agreements or training for remote working, according to a report released today by Cisco.

• Investment in mobile ERP increasing: IDC

  $1 in every $8 spent today on IT in Australia goes to mobile ERP, according to a white paper by IDC and mobile ERP vendor IFS. And investment in mobile is expected to increase, they said.

• State of information security survey infographic

  The CIO 2011 Global State of Information Security Survey tracks the trends and how they affect Australian businesses

• CIOs have mobile on their minds

  More than two-thirds of IT leaders believe mobile technology facilitates business innovation at their companies. Less than half think mobile investments are being driven by business strategy.

• CMOs and CIOs: Can this relationship be saved?

  A new report from the CMO Council and Accenture on the strategic relations between CIOs and CMOs offers a grim outlook: "Marketing and IT executives do not believe they are highly effective partners, as they struggle to achieve common goals in the race to adopt and keep pace with rapidly evolving digital marketing capabilities," notes the report.