Effective business reporting

I’m a great fan of the COBIT and VAL-IT frameworks, but I also like to try and reconcile complex frameworks and make them a bit easier to understand.  I also like to talk in terms of people, process and technology, as I think that conceptually we can easily get our heads around it, and it …

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Doing my PhD

Well for a long time I’ve been fascinated by business – did my Commerce degree at UQ in 1991 – I tortured myself a fair bit by deciding to do the Honours course.  Which was nothing like I thought it would be, and was certainly the hardest year of my life (so far) work-wise.  Graduating …

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Streamlining finance processing

I have been negligent and not documented on the blog lately the fact that I was asked to present at the ‘Streamlining finance processing’ conference in Sydney and Melbourne on 23rd and 24th July.  The blurb for the conference notes: Coping with enormous volumes of data is nothing new for finance teams.  Yet the pressure …

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Introducing a guide for delivering ICT Services in SME’s

Some time ago as part of my commitments to the CPA Australia IT & Management Centre of Excellence, I was the primary author for a new guide called ‘Delivering information and communications technology services to small to medium enterprises’.  This guide joins the CoE’s other major publications on IT Governance and Business Management of IT …

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Feedback from ‘Don’t be the Llama Loser’ presentation

Today I received the feedback from the ‘Don’t be the Llama Loer:  social networking websites, your business, and your career’.  Overall the feedback was good.  The ratings . are provided below (5 is excellent, 4 is good, and so on): Overall rating of the speaker:  4.38 The content of the program:  4.16 The duration of …

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