Government tech budgets stabilise
Government technology budgets appear to be stabilising or even increasing, according to research firm Gartner.
Stories by Byron Connolly
CIOs struggling to meet information demands of CMOs
CIOs are struggling the meet the data demands of chief marketing officers (CMOs) who are hungry for fast access to a lot of information, according to Tristan Sternson, managing director at Melbourne-based information management consultancy InfoReady.
How the CIO came to be
Ever wondered when the first CIOs graced the halls of Australian corporations? Some arrived in the early 1990s with the birth of open systems hardware and the arrival of the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.
"The term CIO came into existence in America in the late 1980s, early 1990s," says Graeme Philipson, an IT industry veteran and analyst. Philipson was previously co-founder of MIS magazine (which merged with CIO in New Zealand), which was acquired in late 1999 by Fairfax and eventually closed by the publisher in early 2012.
Tim Parsons, chief innovation and operating officer, Quickflix
It's quite plausible that Tim Parsons is the only Australian technology specialist who can lay claim to being part of a research team that has helped improve safety for spacecraft re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
"I was always interested in space, I always wanted to go into space," says Parsons, who has an aerobatic pilot's licence and a PhD in aerospace engineering from Imperial College in London.