Back in Melbourne for COE

Another early start to the day (I call 4:00am early!) to catch a plane to Melbourne to chair our quarterly Information Technology & Management Centre of Excellence face-to-face meeting.  We have three face to face meetings a year, and the only way we can keep our agenda on track is by having regular strategic discussions …

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IT Governance: A definition

There is a slight difference of opinion between a pure "governance" approach to IT and the IT governance approach espoused by COBIT.  In this series of blog posts I’ll be adopting the definition of Broadbent & Weill 2003 for IT Governance: IT Governance is about who is entitled to make major decisions, who has input …

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The toolbox: ThinkingRock 2

About Personal Productivity I am always on the lookout for personal productivity tools.  And it is very difficult to have any interest in this area without having, at some stage, stumbled over the "Getting Things Done" book by David Allen.  Whenever this topic comes up, I always give people the following backgrounders – and perhaps …

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Information Management is the new Black

Dr Kate Andrews is a partner at BDO Kendalls (QLD), and Kate’s area of specialty is intellectual capital and knowledge management.  Kate looks for very practical outcomes from knowledge management to benefit the business, and I can’t recommend Kate highly enough as a KM practitioner.  Kate and I, though, often work with clients together in …

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