Out Now in Your Online Bookstore

CPA Australia has just released for purchase the IT & Management CoE’s publication, IT Governance: A Practical Guide for Company Directors and Corporate Executives. The co-authors were Chris Gillies and Marianne Broadbent of Gartner. I was a member of the steering committee for this publication, and it is in the end a document that we …

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Chief Information Officers – The Glue That Binds

ZDNet have an article by Steve Ranger called ‘CIOs must bridge gap between business and tech’. The essential point of the article is that the role of CIO is not technical, it is about business strategy and implementing that in the technical sphere. The CIO is responsible for the stewardship of technological resources within a …

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Business Blogging InTheBlack

This week’s CPA journal has an article in it – “It’s time to Enter the Blogosphere” – in which your humble correspondent is quoted. The article came about partly because of a discussion our Centre of Excellence had regarding blogs and wikis and such like, and our biggest booster Jan Barned suggested the topic to …

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Viva la ITIL Revolution!

Australia’s CIO Magazine has recently (well, yesterday) published an article entitled “ITIL Power” by Ben Worthen. This article is a relatively practical and in-depth review of the capabilities of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and when (and when not) to use it. It’s worth comparing and contrasting this perspective with the view from Technology Executive …

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All About Information Taxonomies – Yet Another Blog

Further to the Ark Group presentation on information taxonomies on Wednesday, Ark Group have put forward a moderated forum for the further discussion and comment on Information Taxonomies. You can click here for further information. The welcome message is reproduced below: “Welcome to the Ark Group Taxonomy Forum. Following on from Designing a Business Focused …

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