NSW Office of State Revenue CIO David Kennedy looks back on the challenges and achievements the government agency has had with open source technology and offers advice to CIOs on developing a successful open source strategy.
Rodney Gedda CIO Government - 01 October, 2009 08:28:00 - www.cio.com.au
With open source software running core parts of its […]

Business Continuity Management - An overview.
While bombs, fires and floods capture the headlines, almost 90 percent of business crises are nowhere near as dramatic. It is these quiet catastrophes that have the potential to damage our organisation’s most valuable assets; its processes, information and knowledge, its brand and reputation. These can be destroyed very quickly […]

Yet another change of Premier for the NSW Labor Government is rumored to be in the wind. The notion that the reign of Premier Rees is nearing an end is not new, however the idea that his replacement will be Carmel Tebbutt is something strange! or is it?
Conspiracy theory would say not! It is reasonably […]

Knowledge Management is not a new thing, we already do it without realising it!. Most people practice it in a ’siloistic’ parallel model, rather than the ‘true KM’ cross functional interdepartmental model illustrated above (apology for the drawing - over four years I’ve never gotten around to re-drawing it properly!)

“Not Invented Here”: It didn’t come from us, so it isn’t any good
“Already Invented Here”: We already do whatever the ‘new’ thing and can’t learn from anyone else.
“Analysis Paralysis”: We’ll study the thing that might cause change to death, but never actually do anything about it.
“Head in Sand and March Right On”: What change? Why […]

One of the most remarkable motion pictures ever made by Walt Disney was ‘The African Lion’. One sequence shows a cheetah accelerating from a walk to a sixty mile per hour sprint whilst chasing a nimble member of the deer family. The cat is so intent on the one animal he has selected as his […]

Recently I was asked to contribute to an article for an upcoming article in the local version of CIO magazine on ‘cloud computing’ below are the thoughts, ponderings and ramblings I submitted.
The question begs to be asked, Is Could Computing (CC) the great missed opportunity for the ICT industry? We are all so intent on […]

Flicking thru the latest issue of the Information Age magazine I chuckled to myself to see an article on the top five priorities for spending in hard economic times and reducing ICT budgets. Why did I chuckle to myself - apart from the obvious reasons! - well because of the five, in most organisations four […]

Dakota Indian tribal wisdom on project management The tribal wisdoms of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that ‘when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount’.
However, in many companies as well as in the UN and NGO community a range of far more […]

True integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching, or in other words integrity is telling yourself the truth and honesty is telling the truth to other people.