Charles Araujo, CEO of the IT Transformation Institute, lists three steps CIOs can take in the next six months to help prepare their organisation – and their IT teams – to lead the changes brought by cloud and other technologies
The CIO as ‘angel investor’ and other new and emerging roles for ICT leaders.
Says new role will help school focus on its core business of providing quality vocational programs for New Zealand’s Pacific community.
BAU or transform government with full digitised business models?
Latest to join eduroam, allowing students and staff to access wireless network at thousands of institutions across the globe.
John Holley ventures into an unfamiliar territory to most CIOs - to South Sudan, as a planning officer for the United Nations Mission. He talks about the upsides of taking a ‘career sabbatical’ and how CIOs can do the same - without leaving the country, or their respective organisations.
Brings 30 years experience of running global IT operations, and will report to chief executive Pat Gelsinger.
The game has changed and IT has a pivotal role to play in enabling business transformation.
What's wrong with how most companies create a business strategy?
Two major ICT executive positions have been announced – Johan Vendrig as the GM information services for healthAlliance, and Roy Goldsmith, chief technology officer for Bank of New Zealand.
Vendrig moves to his current role from the Auckland District Health Board where he was CIO. The ADHB is one of four Northern Region District Health Boards that have formed a shared service for their merging their non-clinical services covering finance, procurement, supply chain, internal audit and Information Services.
We all understand the advantages partnering can bring to business. But, as any CIO who has had to negotiate a partnership-gone-bad knows, adversity is not often a good bedfellow when it comes to keeping partners — and your CEO — happy.
When CIOs join a new organisation, or their current company changes direction, they have an opportunity to establish themselves as strategic leaders. It doesn't matter if their companies aren't large or if they work in industries that adopt new technologies slowly.
Albany Senior High School running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite an education licence deal for schools to use Microsoft software.
The school in Auckland's North Shore City has been running an entirely open source infrastructure since it opened in 2009. The 230-pupil school was set up to follow open learning principles, offering large "learning commons" areas where multiple classes interact rather than conventional classrooms and setting aside one day each week for pupils to work on self-driven research projects.
I often hear from IT executives that it is hard to recruit and retain "good security people". Many lament the shortage of skills in this area and cannot reconcile the skills offered with the positions that need to be filled. Is there really a shortage of good security people? Or just a mismatch in the skills and the jobs?
ASB has appointed Russell Jones as the bank's head of group technology.
Jones has worked for paper company Sappi in both South Africa and Europe, as well as Carter Holt Harvey in New Zealand and International Paper in the US.