As IT jobs grow increasingly complex, there’s more ambiguity surrounding how job titles are defined by any given company and how employers can compensate candidates in the same role with varying skillsets. Pay premiums help employers track the value of specific skills, so they know how competitive the market is for candidates with those skills…
What is your number one priority? Imagine if the CIO’s job could be described with that kind of clarity. Well, as a matter of fact, it can be. Corporate boards and the c-suite may not spend too much time thinking about information systems (unless they are an information systems company) but one thing they definitely…
Every successful IT project is the result of a team effort. Inspiration, enthusiasm, collaboration, brainstorming, advocacy and support are all key elements in IT innovation. But what happens to teamwork when social distancing rules drive members into COVID-19-created isolation? When circumstances force teams to work apart, IT leaders need to adopt a new set of…
In this episode of ‘The CIO Show’ we take a look at the latest data on IT salaries in Australia, and discuss current trends in this most unusual of years for the sector and those working within it. Nicole Gorton, APAC director with global recruiter, Robert Half, provides a deep dive on the company’s recently…
The enterprise software and services landscape is always evolving, even in the midst of a pandemic, with startups in new product categories disrupting established vendors, and well-known names combining to stay on top of the market. Cloud services in particular is a market that has been changing rapidly of late, both in terms of the…
The word ‘resilient’ is cropping up a lot lately as a cultural cornerstone for coping with the pressures the pandemic has foisted on IT. CIOs have played a significant role in enabling organization-wide remote work strategies at speed while accelerating digital initiatives central to the business in uncertain times. For many, the ability to shift…
When Petar Bojovic joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina three years ago, his task was to build an engineering department — and the IT infrastructure it would manage — from the ground up. The organization had no engineering team because it had outsourced most of its IT operations: Pretty much anything that…
Editor’s note: This article is the second in a four-part series on how IT leaders can effectively address systemic racism in their organizations. Start reading here or jump to the first article in the series, which lays the groundwork for effectively addressing systemic racism. Acknowledging that systemic racism exists in our society and recognizing the many…
It’s an assumption that has been allowed to grow unchecked for some time, however the jury is officially still out on whether public cloud infrastructure is cheaper than running on-premises data centres. In this episode we talk to Nine’s chief information and technology officer Damian Cronan about his long journey managing the costs and applications…
The Department of Human Services South Australia’s chief information officer, Rowan Dollar, has been made redundant following a restructure at the agency which has seen his position dissolved. Dollar has been with the SA DHS since January last year. He moved Adelaide from Darwin where he was chief information officer at the NT government’s Department of…