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Jetstar CIO: Downtime risk saves money
News Airline's "doing it for a dollar less" mentality means accepting risk network might not always be up in exchange for cheaper services, says CIO Stephen Tame.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Airport, Australia, Broadband, Environment, Server, CIO, Hardware, network, desktop
Five ways IT departments can win in a crisis
News CIOs need to revise their IT strategies in the downturn to adapt to long-term sustainability, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tags: IT Management, IT Services, Telecommunications, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, strategic sourcing, CIO, organizational structure, business intelligence, software, asset
CIOs 'out of the loop', survey finds
News Confusion reigns over exactly what the executive is supposed to do in a company, according to a survey by Deloitte and the Cranfield School of Management.
Tags: Organizational structure, Professional Development, Trends, Role, Survey, CIO, performance, Deloitte LLP, information technology, analyst
Red tape hampering tech research
News European Commission information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding has blamed red tape for hindering Europe's efforts to capitalize on its high tech research.
Tags: IT strategy, Mobile, Information And Communication Technology, Innovation, Europe, Tape, venture capital, phone, Silicon.com, job
Report maps out Britain's broadband future
News An independent report says now is not the time for public investment in next-generation access in the United Kingdom, but there is plenty to be done by government and regulators.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, IT strategy, Mobile, Fiber, Broadband, phone, Lehman Brothers Inc., FTTH, wireless technology
UK CIOs still plan investment despite tight budgets
News In the wake of the credit crunch, organizations' caution with IT budgets and discretionary spending could possibly extend to next year's budget planning.
Tags: IT strategy, Investments, IT Budget, Investment, Tool, business productivity, Steve Ranger, Highways Agency, CIO, U.K.
Gartner reveals top 30 offshoring hotspots
News The analyst house's 2008 list of the top offshoring destinations reveals new contenders challenging the dominance of India and China.
Tags: IT Management, IT Governance, IT strategy, Employee policy/training, List, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Europe, Gartner Inc.
Most Asian firms don't have green strategy
News Whopping 90 percent of businesses in region still have not implemented green IT strategy, despite being aware of ability to increase ROI, Springboard finds.
Tags: Green IT, Business, Green IT, Strategy, Symantec Corp., information technology company, Asian company, information technology, storage, Asia-Pacific
OCBC wants technology safe and tested
Insight Because banks manage customers' money and confidential data, IT innovation must at times give way to security, says OCBC Bank CIO Lim Khiang Tong.
Tags: Innovation, Banking, Technology, Security, Singapore, Malaysia, Banking Industry, CIO, financial, bank
'Disintegrated' IT didn't help financial crisis
News Financial firms could have better handled economic perils if they integrated technology-business infrastructure for more effective risk monitoring, say experts.
Tags: Financial, Software integration, Risk Management, Risk Management, Financial Crisis, IT Professional, Financial Company, compliance, decision-making, Financial
Cut overlaps in software and support costs
News Trimming software spending during the economic downturn is a matter of cutting overlaps in deployments and unnecessary support costs.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, Open source, Business applications, Open-source Software, CIO, business intelligence, software, enterprise architecture, software-as-a-service
S'pore goes high on TV
Insight Singapore's Media Development Authority CIO Yeo Chun Cheng discusses hurdles the media regulator had to cross when the country kicked off its high-definition television trials in May 2006.
Tags: TVs, Multimedia, Digital media, Regulations
IT sharpens Interpharma's edge
Insight Aligning IT to the business strategy has helped Asia's largest pharmaceutical distributor differentiate itself in the industry, says Interpharma's regional CIO John Dickson.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, IT outsourcing, ROI/TCO, Asset/resource/knowledge management, Infrastructure/architecture management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Business applications
IT to the rescue
Insight International SOS' CTO Todd Schofield shares how real-time information access has helped the organization provide better medical assistance, even in the most remote locations.
Tags: IT Management
Wallem sails the high seas
Insight Maritime industry is undergoing a makeover, with more changes expected in mobile broadband communications, says Wallem CIO Patrick Slesinger.
Tags: IT Management, Mobile/Wireless, Web services, Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, IT budgeting
