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May 01, 2025
Customer-centric IT: Strategies for delivering winning customer experiences
Business growth has become a CIO imperative, and revenue-minded IT leaders are fostering customer-focused cultures, cross-functional teams, and product-based approaches to deliver.
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CIO Leadership Live Australia with Dr Rachna Gandhi, Group Chief Digital Officer, Ramsay Health Care
Ramsay Health Careâs Chief Digital and Data Officer Dr Rachna Gandhi on enhancing people-centred care through technology, creating a single source of truth for the organisationâs data, and overcoming technical debt to accelerate benefits for patients and staff.
New Australia CIO appointments
Congratulations to these 'movers and shakers' recently hired or promoted into a new chief information officer, senior IT, or board role in Australia.
Microsoft sees AI agents shaking up org charts, eliminating traditional functions
As companies increasingly automate work processes using agents, traditional functions such as finance, marketing, and engineering may fall away, giving rise to an âagent bossâ era of delegation and orchestration of myriad bots.
9 IT skills where expertise pays the most
Data from tech recruiter Dice shows that expertise in these skills is associated with at least a 10k bump in salary, with AI leading the way in the most profitable tech skill.
AI agents: The next stage in the evolution of enterprise AI
From initial enthusiasm to strategic implementation: How companies can use AI agents to gain real competitive advantages.
Has Oracle knocked SAP off the ERP throne?
A new study estimates that Oracle became the leading provider of ERP applications in 2024, stealing a position that SAP had held since the early 1980s.