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Kelly Bayer Rosmarin new Optus boss
Optus has promoted its deputy chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin to CEO after only 10 months in the role.
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Ajay Bhatia new Carsales Australia boss
Carsales’ former CIO, Ajay Bhatia has been appointed in the newly created role of managing director, Australia at the online vehicle seller.
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Infosys wins mega deal to replace Centrelink entitlement engine
The Australian government has selected Infosys to replace a significant part of Centrelink’s 30-year-old welfare payment system.
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CIO50 2019: #26-50 Michael Grant, Murdoch University
Michael Grant has held CIO positions at numerous organisations over the past 20 years. His biggest lesson? Take your own counsel when commencing a new role.
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CIO50 2019: #26-50 Oliver Schmill, Mercedes-Benz Australia/Pacific
Over the past five years as chief information officer at Mercedes-Benz Australia and Pacific, Oliver Schmill has transformed the IT organisation’s role from a mere service provider into a highly integrated and consulted business partner.
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NIB shifts health data to AWS cloud
Private health insurer, NIB, has completed what it claims is a major milestone in the Australian cloud landscape, announcing it has shifted the system of record for its corporate business, GU Health, to AWS.
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State of the CIO 2020: Benchmark your organisation
CIO Australia is announcing its annual ?State of the CIO survey?.
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CEO turnover in ASX 200 reaches three-year high
CEO turnover across the ASX 200 has hit a three year high of 22 per cent as demand for tech-savvy c-suite execs increases, according to a Robert Half report.
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‘We failed because we didn’t take care of the people’
In 2012 when she was an IT director at Cisco in San Jose, Atlassian’s chief information officer, Archana Rao, was part of a technology project that turned out to be a complete disaster.
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Food traceability on its own is ‘just boring’: FSC co-founder
An Australian creator of digital identities for food producers claims it is going beyond simple ‘traceability’ with a blockchain-based technology that shows retailers and consumers the exact quality of food being marketed.
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Contractors reshaping tech sector: recruiter
IT contractors are helping Australia’s chief information officers get their digitisation projects over the line, according to a new report.
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Why ADCO is no digital transformation laggard
The building and construction sector has been notoriously slow to adopt new digital technologies across the chain of contractors, project managers and consultants.
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QLD deploying new facial image processing for driver licences
Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) has signed a new deal with Unisys to provide facial image processing technology and services for the state’s smart card driver licences.
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Australian tech budgets to grow a modest 2.1 per cent: Gartner
Technology budgets across Australian corporate and government organisations will grow by around 2.1 per cent in 2020 compared to this year, according to preliminary Gartner figures.
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Damian Green new Queensland Health CIO
Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service (GCHHS) senior executive Damian Green has been named as chief information officer at Queensland Health.
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Rod Apostol new VIC Ombudsman CIO
Rod Apostol is the new chief information officer at the Victorian Ombudsman, replacing Deborah Weiss, who had been in the role since last October.
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How to deal with the cultural and technological challenges of transformation
There is one brutal truth about any digital transformation project: if you don’t get your culture right during and after the process, you are most certainly going to fail.
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Sydney Uni wins $1M for AI-driven heart health program
Google has awarded $1 million to Sydney University’s Westmead Applied Research Centre (WARC) for a translational health program that will use digital tools to prevent heart attacks.
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Updated: Rob James new Vodafone Australia CIO
Former Qantas CTO Rob James is the new chief information officer and director of business enablement at Vodafone Australia.
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Defence sign $95M SAP deal with IBM
The Australian Department of Defence has signed a $95.5 million contract with IBM for the roll out of the SAP S/4 HANA Defence and Security Industry platform.
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Former Wipro exec new IT and data head at Unicef
Former Wipro exec Abhishek Singh has joined children’s charity Unicef Australia as head of data and IT.
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Domino’s says AI has improved pizza quality
Pizza retailer Domino’s claims a piece of scanning technology it first introduced in May has boosted the quality of its products.
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CIO exit interview: Andrew Clowes, JLL
The CIO Executive Council chats to Andrew Clowes, who left his post as chief information officer at JLL last month after 20 years with the company. He discusses his tech career, greatest achievements and what being part of the Navy has taught him about business.
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Exclusive: Rob James resigns as Qantas CTO
Qantas’ chief technology officer, Rob James, has resigned after less than two years in the role.
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Exclusive: Andrew Clowes leaving JLL
Andrew Clowes is leaving his post as chief information officer at real estate services firm, JLL. Clowes, who started work at JLL in 2000 and has been in the CIO role for 10 years, finishes up on Friday.
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Updated: Ben Tabell leaves HSBC after 12 years
HSBC’s chief information officer, Ben Tabell, will leave the bank at the end of the month to take up the role of CIO at eftpos Payments Australia.
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CIO Interview: Viv Da Ros, chief information officer, Caltex Australia
Caltex's Viv ?Da Ros talks to CIO Australia about how he got into IT, the technology innovations that have been created by its digital lab, the influence of artificial intelligence, and the ever-changing environment for technology and digital chiefs.?
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How WA Police overcame its password problem
WA Police’s chief information security officer, Hai Tran has one simple piece of advice for organisations looking to reduce passwork risk: don’t use passwords.
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Lessons learned from a transformation: Bankwest
The bank reorganised its teams to cut bureaucracy and innovate faster than ever before. But it learnt a few things along the way, says CIO Andy Weir.
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ASX 200 firms have major security holes
Even the most mature and well-resourced ASX 200 companies are having trouble sufficiently deploying cyber security basics, according to a new report.
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Clive Dickens joins Optus
Optus has appointed Clive Dickens as vice-president, television, content and product development, in a newly-created role.
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Sheridan Ware new Charter Hall tech chief
Cushman & Wakefield Asia Pacific CIO, Sheridan Ware is the new chief technology officer at ASX200 company Charter Hall. Ware replaces Aidan Coleman, who left the role and moved across to Scentre Group in late 2018.
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Flinders University overcomes transformation integration issues
Tertiary education institutions are under extreme pressure to create digital services that meet the needs of tech-hungry millennials and Adelaide’s Flinders University is no exception.
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RACV unveils Aussie first commuter app
Victoria’s RACV has launched it claims to be the first mobility-as-a-service app outside of Europe.
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How the Singaporean government is making digital transformation work
When Chan Cheow Hoe joined the Singaporean government in early 2014, the technology landscape was pretty grim. Over time, the government lost all of its IT capabilities and there were instances where product rollouts, costing upwards of $50 million, failed.
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AMP tech boss Craig Ryman promoted to COO
AMP’s tech boss Craig Ryman has been promoted to chief operating officer following a leadership restructure announced on Thursday.
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Defence repurposes 110,000 devices in data sanitisation project
The Department of Defence has completed what is believed to be Australia’s largest technology asset disposal with more than 100,000 ICT devices repurposed.
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Grahame Coles new St John of God Health Care tech boss
Veteran tech executive, Grahame Coles, has joined St John of God Health Care as its new group director, digital and technology. Coles replaces Jenny Levy who left the role last August after just over a year at the organisation.
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South Australia to dump Labor’s controversial medical records system, EPAS
The South Australian government will roll out a new electronic medical records system for the state’s hospitals after what it says is the former Labor government’s ‘failed enterprise patient management system (EPAS) debacle.’
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15,000 customers using Bankwest Halo ring
Bankwest has sold its Halo ‘tap and go’ payment ring to around 15,000 of its 1.1 million customers almost one year after its launch.
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Business execs, academics call for urgent debate on AI ethics
A group of Australian business leaders are calling for a national debate on the ethical issues related to AI as businesses rapidly invest in these technologies.
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Nicola Dorling leaves digital role at UNSW
Senior tech exec Nicola Dorling has left her post as digital strategy director at the University of New South Wales less than a year after taking up the role.
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The phishing issue: Michael Connory demonstrates how vulnerable you really are
Security In Depth’s Michael Connory hacked his first computer, an IBM System/370 mainframe, when he was 12 years old. There were games on the machine that he wanted to play.
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Defence awards $190M in new technology deals
The Department of Defence has awarded three new tech contracts worth just over $190 million to Fujitsu and Kinetic IT.
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Tim Catley new UNSW digital chief
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has appointed former Department of Home Affairs CIO, Tim Catley, as its new chief digital officer.
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PepsiCo appoints Brian Green as new IT chief
PepsiCo ANZ announced on Friday that it has appointed Brian Green as its new head of IT, replacing Ursula Philips who left the role in mid-2018.
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Farid Jarrar to join CPA Australia
Farid Jarrar is leaving his role as CIO at outsourced call centre provider Stellar and will join CPA Australia in February as chief information and digital officer.
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How DiData and Telstra are dealing with the tech skills crisis
The technology skills crisis is affecting organisations in just about every market sector across Australia – from cloud to DevOps, security and data analytics, CIOs are struggling to find the right talent.
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