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  • Feature Driving IT success

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2010

    Directors may not be up to speed with the latest technology, but they can still help steer IT projects towards success. Domini Stuart explains how. Driving IT success How to make IT work Don’t underestimate IT’s importance Don’t view IT a...

  • Vox Pop Shaking up the NFP sector

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2010

    A number of reform initiatives could lead to an overhaul of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. We asked three NFP directors how they believed the role of directors could change and what new challenges could be created for them. Shaking up the NFP sector Darren Beazley MAICDPresident, Asth...

  • Viewpoint Stepping up to IT challenges

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2010

    Technology advancements are creating new opportunities and threats for companies. The Australian Institute of Company Directors and CSC hosted a discussion on how boards can respond. Stepping up to IT challenges Rapid technology changes are creating a host of challenges for directors. The g...

  • IT Governance Six principles for good IT governance Aug 08

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2008

    Mark Toomey argues that British Airways could have prevented huge losses and embarrassment if it had applied the six principles for good governance of IT when opening Heathrow Terminal 5. Six principles for good IT governance British Airways CEO Willie Walsh is intimately familiar...

  • Profitable Information Management

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2007

    A document has its own life cycle. Recall Australasia president Mark Wesley details how increasing regulation demands that this life cycle be managed properly and perhaps even by outside experts. Dusting off that old filing systemOrganisations face competing needs from their information – ex...

  • Intellectual Property

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2007

    In the cold, hard world of international technology, intellectual property can often emerge as the most prized part of a business and something others will try to wrest away. Alan Deans explains how directors and their companies can become sitting ducks if they don’t take action to ...

  • Your Say

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2007

    Letters to the editor The activity in Australia’s M&A sector shows no sign of abating. But in all the discussion about unlocking value through acquisition, there has been precious little commentary on one of the major risks to shareholder value: IT systems integration. Our analysis suggests tha...

  • News and Views

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2007

    IT assets need managing A national survey of 1,800 Australian small and medium businesses (SMEs) has found nearly half do not have a system in place for managing their IT assets, costing thousands of dollars each year in depreciated values, residuals on leased equipment and ‘missing’ parts. The surv...

  • Information management

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Oct 2006

    Don Smallwood, Oracle’s senior director of marketing for Australia and New Zealand, outlines how efficient information management starts by recognising that data can be classified into different lifecycles. Information lifecycle management Although most organisations have long regarded thei...

  • The members voice Members voice

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Mar 2005

    An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follow: The members' voice An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD's policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follow: Globa...

  • The members voice AICD REVIEW

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Feb 2005

    An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follow: The members' voice An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD's policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follow: Victo...

  • Challenging the imaginmation Cover Story

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jun 2004

    A good conference must provide delegates with intellectual stimulation, the opportunity to network in an informal setting and the program must be varied enough to avoid that well-known hazard - conference fatigue. By John Arbouw challenging the imaginmation A good conference must provide delegates ...

  • Managing the risk Risk Managment

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2004

    When bringing IT and social systems together, special care is necessary in order to incorporate with both types of complexity, say Angela Ling and Michael Boahene* Managing the risk When bringing IT and social systems together, special care is necessary in order to incorporate with both types of co...

  • Privacy and boards of directors What you dont know can hurt you AICD Review

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2004

    On 21 December 2001, the private sector provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) came into effect to cover businesses and other organisations with an annual turnover of more than $3 million, and, since December 2002, small businesses that carry on activities that are a higher risk to privacy. ...

  • Protecting your company information ASIC Review

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Apr 2004

    With a record 11 million company searches made of our databases last financial year, it's even more important that changes to your company's details are authorised. Protecting your company information By Mark Drysdale, executive director, Public and Commercial Services, ASIC With a record 11 ...