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Just Say "Know" 06/11/2006 11:35:51
The boss may assume that outsourcing is the answer to everything. But CIOs can't afford to assume anything. They have to know.It's a scenario scary enough to induce night sweats in even the steeliest CIO. Your CEO, just back from a conference in Port Douglas, strides into your office. Yesterday, he played golf with the vice president of sales for one of the big IT services companies and now he's telling you that this company could take over most of your IT functions and cut your company's IT budget in half. Not only that, they can deliver better services levels. After all, it's what they do! - +
Divining Outsourcing's Hidden Costs 12/07/2004 10:58:44
If the mounting controversy over moving IT work offshore has pushed the outsourcing phenomenon back under the public microscope, it is the desire to explore other hidden costs like the potential cost of lost corporate knowledge that is keeping it there.In the mad rush to save on wages by outsourcing IT projects, companies are not only failing to spot the hidden costs - they risk losing precious corporate knowledge in the process. - +
The Power Seat 06/03/2006 11:38:30
Most CIOs believe that demonstrating leadership, both in their team and across the business, does prop their power baseYou're already at the pointy end of the IT pyramid when you make CIO. But do you have real power - and if you do, how do you use it, share it, grow it and keep it? - +
Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
Does your executive search firm know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?Does your executive search firm know its MIS managers from its elbow? Does it even know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients? - +
De-nerding Your Geeks 03/05/2006 12:45:06
Having expelled every last shred of geek-hood from their own bearing, CIOs must now find ways to start purging any symptoms of same from their staff.The need to align with the business forced most CIOs to change from geek to chic - jettisoning their old school mentality toward IT and swapping their Dockers for Hugo Boss in the process. But convincing the rest of the IT department to follow suit may prove to be a much tougher job . . .
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The backlash against offshoring will deepen over the next few months, but will be consigned to the wastebasket of history by the end of 2005, according to Craig Baty, group vice president, Global Tech Industries Group, Gartner.
"Global sourcing (of IT services) is an irreversible megatrend although its true impact is yet to be felt," he said during the 3rd Regional Infocomm Conference in Singapore. "By 2006, we will see a reliable global sourcing market."
The current backlash against IT offshoring in countries such as the U.S. and Australia -- based on the notion that offshoring causes IT job loss -- is misguided, according to Baty.
"The idea that jobs will be lost through offshoring is the most emotional topic of outsourcing," he said. "But it is in fact an insignificant issue that will go away."
According to Baty, a U.S. government survey showed that IT offshoring currently accounts for less than 5 percent of overall U.S. job losses. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) puts the immediate job loss figure at 2.8 percent at the same time as many other jobs are created, Baty said.
The job loss debate is just a smokescreen to cover up less attractive reasons for opposing offshoring, according to Baty.
"Racism and xenophobia are alive and well in the West," he said. "The view is often 'Australia's okay, it has kangaroos and they help in the war against terror, but China and India, well, we just don't know what's going on in those countries'.
"It takes just one mistake by an overseas vendor to bring this debate up all over again."
By the time the offshoring market has matured, significant consolidation will have occurred, according to Baty.
"About 60 percent of offshore outsourcing companies will fail within three years," he said. "It (adoption of new IT paradigms) always works like this."
The offshoring industry will become more professional and the proportion of outsourced IT service work sent offshore will triple from between 2 percent and 3 percent now to between 7 percent and 10 percent by 2010, Baty said.
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Beyond Virtualisation - The Roadmap to 2012
CIO Breakfast Briefing
8:30am - 10:30am
Brisbane | 22 July | Sofitel Brisbane
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Canberra | 24 July | The Hyatt
Attend and discover:
- What happens after virtualisation
- The benefits automation drives
- When automated infrastructures will emerge
- What the roadmap to 2012 looks like
- How to deliver an automated architecture
- How to maximise your investment in virtualisation
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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