Information Technology
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Telework: breaking down geographic barriers and strengthening real-world communities
Roger Dawkins | November 27, 2012
Following the success of the first annual national Telework Week, Roger Dawkins highlights how flexible working hours benefit not only the worker but their employer too.
Alan Woodward, executive director of the Lifeline Foundation, is a flexible worker. Flexible work, or telework, affords him the usual advantages: he doesn’t have to live in close proximity to work (so he lives on coastal NSW); flexible work’s more convenient because he travels a lot; and, if he chooses, Alan can adjust his working hours to fit in daytime family activities. But in addition to those benefits of working in a flexible environment, flexible work hugely benefits the real-world community where Alan lives. -
Deloitte partner advocates ‘meaningful’ business process automation
Josh Tanchel | October 9, 2012The latest automation software not only saves time and money but can also give your business a considerable competitive advantage. Joshua Tanchel, Deloitte partner, highlights the fundamental metrics behind the results.
How can a ‘private’ business with limited administrative staff improve the provision of quality, flexible information without overhauling an existing operating and reporting model?
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National Telework Week ROI tool
Nina Sochon | October 2, 2012The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has launched a website to assist companies and organisations that want to participate in National Telework Week.
The website includes a Return on Investment (ROI) tool to help employers investigate the costs and benefits of telework.
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Professional development in a changing tech environment
Dr Nick Tate | September 25, 2012The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has prospered in recent years. Dr Nick Tate believes more can be done to engage young people in ICT.
ICT is a young profession, but it has become critical to almost every part of modern life.
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Have your say: copyright and the digital economy
Helen Hull | September 4, 2012You are invited to have your say on the on the first consultation paper for the Inquiry about Copyright law, Copyright and the Digital Economy.
Submissions close: Friday, 16 November 2012.
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Threat of real distortions in the EFTPOS market
Jost Stollmann | August 7, 2012Australia’s four major banks and Woolworths and Coles will potentially be the big beneficiaries if a new regulation of the EFTPOS payments system is allowed to proceed.
Under the proposals, the major banks and retailers will be allowed to negotiate special deals for themselves, while charging small and medium sized retailers higher fees if they wish.
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Cloud + NBN forum
Olga Bodrova | July 4, 2012Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy invites First 5000 members to discuss and learn about the enormous potential for cloud computing when combined with the NBN.
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy is holding the Cloud + NBN forum to highlight the benefits of cloud computing combined with the NBN.
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So what is “The Cloud”?
First 5000 | February 29, 2012
Paul Armstrong founder and managing partner of web development company Sitback Solutions explains the ins and outs of Cloud Computing in layman’s terms.
Remember when you used to buy a newspaper as opposed to reading it on your iPad? Or when you used to buy DVDs from the store instead of downloading your films from iTunes? I can’t… Well the cloud is a bit like that – it’s the same as what you used to have, just delivered slightly differently and with a few different pros and cons. -
Why switching off makes sense
Beverley Head | November 29, 2011
Ever wondered why you have your best ideas when you are in the shower, or driving the car, or walking the dog? It’s because you actually give your brain time to process the stuff that’s already in there.
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In B2B, how do we monetise social media?
Michael Friedberg | November 21, 2011
There is much to say and read about social media. When you start looking and start talking much of it is relevant in business to consumer marketing.
Here the linkages to ROI are much more straightforward. And there are some great examples, Air New Zealand has done wonders with Grab-a-Seat. -
Fujitsu offers free Cloud trial
Helen Hull | November 7, 2011
IT services provider, Fujitsu, is offering a free trial of its Cloud computing services to small to medium enterprises (SMEs) until 31 January 2012.
First 5000 members can access Fujitsu’s Cloud Platform, which includes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) hosted in Fujitsu’s Australian data centres, as part of the trial. -
Cloud Computing: the next big thing or incremental improvement?
Helen Hull | October 25, 2011Are you interested in hearing from the same technology expert that members US congress turn to for advice?
Rob Atkinson, President of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a Washington DC based, technology policy think tank will speak about how the cloud compares with other technology innovations and about its place in a technologically advanced economy.
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IBM Finance Forum 2011
Nick Peers | October 5, 2011In today’s business world heightened uncertainty is now part of the normal course of business. Everything from consumer demand, to commodities prices and exchange rates remain volatile.
How to grow revenue and profits, and improve return on invested capital while managing risk in uncertain times is on everyone’s mind.
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The internet bigger than Iron ore for Australia
Josh Tanchel | October 4, 2011Online contribution bigger than iron ore says Deloitte Access Economics.
A new report by Deloitte Access Economics, The Connected Continent: How the Internet is Transforming Australia’s Economy estimates that the Internet contributed $50 billion, or 3.6% of Australia’s Gross Domestic Product in 2010 and that contribution is primed to boom.
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CIO great says “Get rid of IT”
Sally Rose | June 27, 2011On 24 June 2011 at the Global Access Partners (GAP) Workshop on Cloud Computing, a joint initiative with the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy, I had the chance to hear the keynote address from Prof Paul A Strassmann.
Prof Strassmann has truly earned his place in the CIO hall of fame; joking that he is not really a Professor, in the sense that his interest in IT is by no means merely academic. He has authored many articles and books and holds a number of trademarks. He seems to have been even busier since retirement.
