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• Continuous upskilling amidst rapid change: The challenge of growing your career in ICT

  We talk to ICT leaders who consider their careers as being in an ongoing state of upgrade, just like the business technologies they work with.
  

• First Gas: From zero to corporate hero – in four months

  Formed from the gas assets of Vector, a trio of IT experts created the 'NASA project' to give the fledgling company an ICT backbone.
  

• Largest Queensland health service signs with Orion Health

  Metro North Hospital and Health Service to deploy Orion Health's referrals management platform.

• Ministry for the Environment prepares to become paperless organisation

  Deploys OpenText enterprise content management -as-a-service to meet cloud first mandate across government.

• Target: Compounding organisational learning

  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.

• The next big thing: Virtual workplaces

  In November, 1,500 international knowledge management experts converged on Washington DC for the world’s premier conference in this field, KM World 2010, giving attendees a glimpse into the future. Information Leadership’s Grant Margison was there as a speaker, and shares key insights on trends emerging from the conference.
  2.0 – it’s not just for teenagers any more. Most organisations are now thinking of, or have systems for, managing content and allowing for project collaboration. Case studies showed how organisations have extended this effectively to include social and networking functionality. Networking lets people find expertise and sound out who can help, while the social side provides a means of informally commenting on and finding content as well as building relationships. A parallel trend is the expectation that these combinations of tools are available 24/7, at any location, on a range of desktop and mobile platforms.

• Blaze a trail

  Finding the electronic needle in the haystack is a major frustration for businesses and individuals alike as they amass virtual mountains of data. It's one reason Google has been so successful and it is one of the main reasons why Adelaide-based Calvert Technologies - which designs, supplies and supports PC-based networks - installed new workflow planning software.
  "As businesses grow, they get more people and information that they need to keep track of," Calvert's managing director, Dean Calvert, explains. "One of the problems is that you get silos of information.