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Sees Internet of Things as next hacking target after mobile

Unisys engineers will handle installations and on-site maintenance for X-IO customers in more than 100 countries, including New Zealand.

ASB’s new head office environment means employees can work anywhere, with the device of their choice, and printers are often on respite. CIO New Zealand takes a tour of North Wharf in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.

BAU or transform government with full digitised business models?

The bank’s head of customer experience, Anand Ranchord, talks about his approach to business process when tasked to create a new mobile app for home loans.

BI (business intelligence) and analytics will remain a top investment priority for CIOs, but by 2015 BI vendors will make ad-hoc data discovery, rather than report generation, the prime focus of their product development efforts, according to a new Gartner report.

Four New Zealand CIOs talk about key issues their teams are facing, and the new areas ICT is working on.

System now a standard feature for certain models, but will be rolled out to entire fleet.

Tony Hayes, ISACA international president, talks about the trends that CIOs should prepare for, and the “inexcusable” high rate of failed ICT projects.

Phablets, mobile apps and preparing for the digital world – a roundup of news, reviews and trends for business technology leaders.

As times change, so does the role of IT. A generation ago, it had to embrace PCs and client/server solutions. Now IT departments are faced with the consumerization of technology. Could the same analytics that helps companies predict customer behavior help IT departments stay relevant?

Linda Price of Gartner writes about the new opportunities and threats businesses must address if they are to survive in the next decade.

The Innovation Lab provides a preview of the future of banking, says ASB Bank chief architect James Bergin.

SAS made a huge difference in our ability to understand and price our risk profiles, says Carl Rajendram, manager for commercial pricing and analytics.

Symantec project aims to plug continuous skills gap in the area.

Survey finds nearly 40 per cent of organisations in ANZ do not have a big data strategy.

How have business continuity strategies evolved in the new technology landscape of cloud and virtualisation? A panel of CIOs share their insights, and how they managed the raft of incidents impacting New Zealand enterprises in the past year.

Success in the modern digital economy is substantially a matter of getting started earlier and learning faster. Try new things. Discover what works and do more of it. Discover what doesn’t work and do less of it.

MetService has a dual persona – a state owned enterprise with full commercial operations worldwide. It is a unique setup that keeps CIO Alistair Vickers and his team on the leading edge of business technology.

A roundup of news, reviews and trends for business technology leaders.