Julian Bajkowski

Vendor spin coupled with pressure from CEOs and CFOs to create savings has led to poor offshoring decisions that do not live up to expectations. Addressing a packed room of enterprise and government IT managers and CIOs at the Metamorphosis conference in Sydney last week, Meta Group Inc. vice-president and services director Dean Davison warned of a serious disconnect between the savings that services vendors tout and economic reality.

IT managers fretting over job security because of the inflated predictions of boom and bust by analysts and recruiters can take heart in data that reveals the number of IT managers in Australia has remained stable if not static for at least three years.

In a move certain to worry IT vendors, the federal government will retain its two most powerful internal IT advisory bodies, the Information Management Strategy Committee (IMSC) and the Chief Information Officer Committee despite the almost certain closure of their coordinating arm, the National Office of the Information Economy (NOIE).

In a move certain to worry IT vendors, the Australian federal government will retain its two most powerful internal IT advisory bodies, the Information Management Strategy Committee (IMSC) and the Chief Information Officer Committee despite the almost certain closure of their coordinating arm, the National Office of the Information Economy (NOIE).

The Australian IT industry needs to stop digging its own grave and take a good hard look at itself to figure out what it wants

Australia's defense forces have officially signed on to the military doctrine of Network Centric Warfare, with the launch of the A$50 billion (US$38 billion), 10-year Defense Capability Plan (DCP) in Sydney today.

Information technology policy has sunk into pre-budget and pre-election paralysis at government and opposition levels.

AAPT Ltd. will invest more than A$2.5 million (US$1.87 million) on a new, retail-customer interactive voice project that ports directly back into its mainframe billing and transaction systems in an effort to reduce call centre and administration costs.