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Articles by David Binning
Interview
Johnson & Johnson’s Angela Coble on averting a virus crisis
In an interview last year with CIO Australia, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) director of business technology, Angela Coble, said the biggest lesson she learned in the past six years is that "a CIO is no different to any other leadership role in an organisation".
Interview
How Australian healthcare providers are navigating COVID-19
Melbourne’s Austin Health was just weeks away from pressing go on a major digital transformation project before COVID-19 started getting serious in early March.
Feature
Australia’s big banks mull ethics in AI
CIO talks to data chiefs at CBA and NAB about how the two banking behemoths are progressing with the Federal government’s AI Ethics trial which kicked-off last year
Feature
Why technology chiefs need to work closer with HR
As CIOs are brought deeper into the executive fold, they're increasingly being called upon to think about something not traditionally in their wheel-house: culture.
Feature
Leaning in with Cisco’s ‘disco’ CIO, Jacqueline Guichelaar
We talk to Cisco Group CIO Jacqueline Guichelaar about the tech giant’s response to COVID-19, what it means to be an effective tech chief today, the importance of women and diversity in the profession and the power of 70s disco.
News Analysis
Retail’s COVID-19 woes written on toilet paper
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A CIO’s guide to AI: How can Australian organisations make the technology work for them?
One of the reasons for the general AI impasse in Australia – and to a lesser extent amongst our developed peers such as the US, UK, Germany and China – is that projects still tend to be cloistered within IT departments.
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A CIO’s guide to AI: Australian artificial intelligence suffering from arrested development
In part 1 of this guide, we provide a view of the AI landscape in Australia. Where is AI being deployed? Expectations versus realities? Are adoption rates falling behind the rest of the world? What is holding AI back in this country?
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Tabcorp’s tech tsar Mandy Ross sees good and bad in COVID-19 trenches
Outgoing Tabcorp CIO, Mandy Ross, says COVID-19 has thrown many Australian organisations and her professional peers into complete disarray over the past few weeks.
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Australian CIOs scramble to manage teleworker exodus in face of COVID-19
If the average day of a 21st century CIO consists of perpetually herding cats, then surely managing the response to COVID-19 must be more akin to herding locusts.
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COVID-19 welfare splash crashes MyGov website, spurs frenzied backpedalling
Government services minister, Stuart Robert, insisted on Monday that the MyGov website was still working despite it having appeared to crash following a mass exodus online of Australians scrambling for a welfare lifeline offered in response to COVID-19.
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UNSW is teaching AI systems how to second-guess us
Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing AI systems capable of ‘second-guessing’ humans, using data such as facial expression and body language to assist people for instance who are immobilised with communication difficulties.
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IBM talks up deeper language smarts for Watson
Australian companies using the AI-driven language processing will be able to take advantage of advanced sentiment analysis.
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