The Arnott’s Group partners with Microsoft

The Arnott’s Group will have improved visibility of its emissions activities The Arnott’s Group and Microsoft have announced a new partnership to help the iconic food manufacturer transform its sustainability agenda by using data more effectively. The Arnott’s Group will become the first organisation in Australia and New Zealand to…

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Four ways to deliver digital dividends

Most organizations struggle with developing digital change CIOs and IT leaders must take action to accelerate time to value and drive top- and bottom-line financial impacts from digital investments, according to Gartner, Inc.’s annual global survey of CIOs and technology executives. “The pressure on CIOs to deliver digital dividends is higher…

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The retention recipe to combat Asia’s tech talent war

The firm is on track to connect 30 million people globally The pandemic has sparked a large-scale digitalisation in nearly every industry, resulting in a surge in job volume in the technology sector in Asia, which has traditionally been skill short. As technological advances and digitalisation trends set to accelerate,…

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How CIOs can defend against damaging IT budget cuts

Stewart Buchanan, VP Analyst at Gartner, discusses how CIOs can respond to executive leaders Companies must watch their spending as supply costs, energy bills and the cost of talent are soaring. At the same time, businesses must continue spending to operate and avoid business damage. However, in unstable times, some…

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The crunch of escalating costs and labour race

Data centre construction is facing record-breaking inflation The Data centre cost index 2022 reveals how the average cost to build data centres has increased by 15 percent on average across global markets. The research analyses construction input costs – including labour and materials – across 45 key markets, alongside industry sentiment and insight from…

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CIO at DAFF signals tech upgrades for agriculture

Digital services delivered on demand for DoA Agricultural exports have been a lynchpin of Australia’s economy since the earliest days of European settlement. Today’s farmers and agribusinesses face a complex web of export regulations, quotas, eligibility criteria, audits, and real-time monitoring. The Australian Government understands the importance of the agriculture…

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Understand tech talent to design winning employee experience

Many have been re-evaluating their priorities and relationship with work Following the ‘Great Resignation’ and the ‘Great Reshuffling’, the latest buzzword reflecting people’s attitude to work is ‘quiet quitting’, in which employees actively choose to do the bare minimum required to stay employed, instead of going above and beyond at…

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IDC maintains its forecast despite a looming recession

The worldwide services market will likely continue on its current growth trajectory Worldwide IT and business services revenue is expected to grow (in constant currency) 5.7 per cent this year and 5.2 per cent in 2023, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semi-annual Services Tracker. In nominal dollar denominated…

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Medibank cyber incident and trading update

Medibank has deployed additional security measures across its network The Medibank Group today confirmed that ongoing investigations continue to show there remains no evidence customer data has been removed from its IT environment, after it detected unusual activity last week in part of its IT network. Normal operations have resumed,…

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Accelerating time to value from digital investments

Leading CIOs are more likely to leverage data, analytics and AI CIOs and IT leaders must take action to accelerate time to value and drive top- and bottom-line enterprise growth from digital investments, according to Gartner, Inc.’s annual global survey of CIOs and technology executives. “The pressure on CIOs to deliver…

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