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It Is the Business, Stupid 10/12/2006 13:59:51
When projects go pear-shaped it's usually because there's too much focus on technology, and not enough on business outcomes and associated changeIn a 2005 article"Why Software Projects Fail", Cutter Consortium Fellow Robert Charette narrates an infamous anecdote about a disappearing warehouse. - +
Remote Control 09/10/2006 12:05:21
Being able to reach employees around the clock is tempting for employers; for employees, being able to access work systems from home suggests better work-life balance. But for CIOs, there are significant technical and management challenges to be faced first.Google should shoulder some responsibility for remote access to corporate information systems. Its Internet engines suggest it is possible to access anything anywhere anytime. If Google can do it, executives argue, why not rip down the walls on corporate information systems and let employees access them anytime anywhere too? - +
How to Get Real About Strategic Planning 04/02/2008 12:50:59
Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such - +
Facing the Heat 06/08/2007 13:26:55
Chances are that a good portion of an organization’s environmental footprint, however small it may be, comes from ITAs a matter of personal belief, any CIO is free to count themselves among the tiny and diminishing band of troglodytes that would continue to deny the reality of human-induced climate change until the polar ice caps disappeared and the landscape was reduced to dust. - +
Untethered But Not Disconnected 09/10/2006 11:24:48
New wireless networks and devices create more productive work environments. They can also generate anxiety. Here's how to cut the wires so that employees still feel connectedTwo years ago, Capital One CIO Gregor Bailar gave up his private office in suburban Virginia, with its view of the woods, in favour of a conference table that put him in full view of his staff. The bold move was calculated to allow rank-and-file workers at the company - not to mention Bailar's C-suite colleagues - to see for themselves how a cubicle-free office environment supported with wireless technology could change the way they worked for the better.
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Health care consortium Master Health Services Brisbane (MHS) has deployed a wireless network and VPN to improve treatment efficiency.
The network will enable doctors and visiting practitioners to access patient records, track surgical equipment and make calls within MHS' 32 operating theatres. Visiting practitioners can use the VPN to remotely access updated patient records from their offices, where they previously had to carry possibly old data via laptops.
MHS will install the technology over the next 18 months in its seven hospitals and says it will provide the foundation for a roll out of health care applications. MHS Brisbane, which has the system successfully operating in its South Brisbane adult's hospital, cares for around half a million people annually and employs more than 5000 staff.
The MHS network is built on provider Cisco's 4100 series wireless LAN controllers and Cisco Aironet 1000 series lightweight access points. A touch screen application tracks surgical instruments as they progress through sterilization, and as they enter and exit the operating theater.
MHS Brisbane CEO Malcolm Thatcher said the technology is critical to the consortium's 'smart hospital vision' strategy.
"Choosing the right networking partner was absolutely critical to the future of our smart hospital vision, as the network is at the heart of what we want to achieve," Thatcher said. "Cisco was the only vendor which demonstrated its thorough understanding of the health sector and is making significant investments in the area."
Cisco Queensland regional manager, John Winters said, "The benefits which IP-based networking can provide organizations such as MHS go well beyond e-mail and Web searches towards true, real-time interactivity with the information the care providers need."
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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. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
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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