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When it comes to making choices about furthering professional qualifications and training there are certainly no shortage of academic options. For the last 30 years, an MBA degree has been seen as the benchmark that the business community sets for managers to progress to senior executive level. Yet with the rise and rise of the information technology industry, most tertiary institutions offering an information sciences or computing degree are adding a Masters option — often in the form of a Masters in Business Technology or a Masters in Information Technology Management — while almost every tertiary institution in Australia offers an MBA. The question for many about to take the plunge back into academia is which one will hold more sway when times get tough, and which will bring in more bacon when the sun shines.

While postgraduate studies hold the promise of career consolidation, the first choice is which path do you want to follow: technology or business - perhaps with the title chief technical officer (CTO) or equivalent or do you want to be a CIO (chief information officer)? How do you choose?

IT staff are excluding dot com companies from their career strategies believing there are greater opportunities in a 'traditional' firm.

Postgraduate Training Buyers Guide

Just how useful are postgraduate degrees in the IT industry? To help find out, Merri Mack canvasses opinions of postgraduates, students and industry spokespeople about what degrees are relevant and how they are valued in the industry.

Melissa, Ethan A, Worm and new Wobbler virus have hit Australian companies hard, according to a survey of 1000 people by MBT, a division of Morgan & Banks.