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  • Craig Gibbons, Fuji Xerox Australia - The Swiss Army CIO
    Craig Gibbons has led a diverse career, starting out as an Army helicopter pilot in the Australian Defence Force and going on to gigs in aerospace project management and security at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Merri Mack talks to Gibbons about the skills gained from a varied career and how he applies them as CIO of Fuji Xerox Australia.
  • Small things, big wins
    Jodie Rugless is the CIO of Royal District Nursing Service South Australia (RDNS SA). RDNS has been providing home nursing care for over 116 years, when and where its clients need it, with the aim of supporting individuals to choose to live independently, through the extensive and diverse services it provides. Rugless is charged with keeping that show on the road - quite literally - as Merri Mack found out.
  • People power the key to IT assimilation
    As CIO of global financial services company Computershare, Stuart Irving has more than 1000 staff under his command and must juggle an annual budget of US$160 million. Merri Mack talks to Irving about the value of a positive company culture, the inherent importance of people and his own experiences integrating the IT of acquired companies into Computershare’s own environment.
  • Do not ask why; ask: why not?
    New Zealand was devastated earlier this year when a catastrophic earthquake struck Christchurch, levelling large parts of the city and taking many lives. In the wake of this tragedy, Brad Duce, General Manager of Siemon ANZ, reflects on what we can learn from how the people of Christchurch have responded to this disaster, and how we can apply that to how we approach our own lives, our communities and technology.
  • Health services score a Winn-win
    Brett Winn* is Executive General Manager - Information Technology at Medibank Health Solutions, where he is responsible for improving the delivery of health services using technology. Specifically, he must reduce costs, streamline processes and improve the quality of patient care. He revels in this position despite the stresses, and wants to see government take a greater role in the delivery of health services to the community.
  • Integration and monitoring key to hotel operations
    Voice&Data’s Merri Mack interviewed Lindsay Leigh, Director of Information Technology, Sheraton on the Park and Regional Director of Information Technology, Starwood Pacific Hotels, to find how a leading hotel chain provides guests with an exceptional experience with the use of technology.
  • Solving problems on the run
    Voice&Data’s Merri Mack spoke to one of Cisco’s highest achievers. Adam Radford is very adept at using his personal and professional time productively in his current role at Cisco in Australia as a consulting solutions architect. With multiple things that are important to him, he has to allocate the time to complete tasks and work out the things he wants to do. This often means there is a crossover between work and sport where, as a triathlete who gets up at 5.00 am for trainings every day, he often solves problems on the run, on the bike or even swimming.
  • The new wave of support
    The pressure is on for IT departments to shift their priorities as employees demand better support for employees’ personal devices. Seth Shaw, Country Manager ANZ for LogMeIn explains how technology departments can take advantage of the next generation of support tools and start saying yes to requests for support to a broader range of remote devices.
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  • Technology is changing the workplace dramatically
    The keynote speaker at the recent HP Technology@Work 07 conference, Bob Mansfield made the point that the pace of change is accelerating and that companies and their people cannot afford to stand still
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