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Active lifestyle brand to evolve its end to-end planning, allocation and replenishment capabilities with Blue Yonder, supported by Plantensive

The competition watchdog, the ACCC, has issued a draft determination proposing to grant authorisation with conditions to the Australian Banking Association (ABA), its member banks, and other industry participants to facilitate business continuity planning in the cash in transit industry.

GUEST OPINION:  Upon developing a project, a company’s management team needs to supervise its development closely to ensure every step is taken to reach the final goal. However, what most omit is evaluating the project’s status as it unfolds to identify possible errors or improvements. Including PA (project analysis) in the development process will most likely lead to success since it keeps you on track of things and offers broader solutions. 

GUEST OPINION: Beware of migration failure, it's what often keeps techies awake at nights!

GUEST INTERVIEW: Strategic plans can often be like New Year's Resolutions - well intentioned, but quickly forgotten. Cascade Strategy solves this massive pain point with an impressive platform that helps people and businesses achieve big things together by solving one of the corporate world's biggest challenges: the gap between planning and executing a strategy.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Strategic plans can often be like New Year's Resolutions - well intentioned, but quickly forgotten. Cascade Strategy solves this massive pain point with an impressive platform that helps people and businesses achieve big things together by solving one of the corporate world's biggest challenges: the gap between planning and executing a strategy.

COMPANY NEWS: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the term “project management”? Some really complicated stuff that scientists and engineers do? Most definitely. Some modern-day IT gimmick that startuppers are into? Highly likely. Another buzzword? Quite possibly.

COMPANY NEWS: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the term “project management”? Some really complicated stuff that scientists and engineers do? Most definitely. Some modern-day IT gimmick that startuppers are into? Highly likely. Another buzzword? Quite possibly.

GUEST OPINION: It’s tempting to view business collaboration projects as complex activities that take a long time to show a significant return on investment. Planning and deployment is likely to take months and any impact on daily activity will take an extended period to become apparent.

Australian property intelligence platform operator Archistar has raised $6 million in a funding round led by Skip Capital (co-headed by Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar) and AirTree Ventures (which was founded by former Microsoft Australia managing director Daniel Petre).

Former Dell EMC executive David Webster has been appointed as president of Asia Pacific and Japan for enterprise cloud vendor Workday.

US-based connected planning solutions vendor Anaplan is accelerating its expansion in the New Zealand market with the appointment of business solutions provider Mindfull as the company’s first channel partner.

US-based connected planning solutions vendor Anaplan has appointed consulting services company Cornerstone Performance Management as a channel partner for its Australia and New Zealand network.

Chinese ICT giant Huawei sees four areas of opportunities where tech and innovation play a key role in the building of smart IoT-enabled smarter cities.

For budding entrepreneurs and would-be business tycoons, better planning and financial management are an important key to success, particularly in the startup phase of their small business.

Telstra’s new contract with NBN Co is to ‘provide planning and design services to support the NBN rollout’.

CA Technologies CTO John Michelsen gave his version of the most pressing issues facing CTOs during a media briefing at the company's CA World '14 conference.

A new hybrid iPad/SaaS application from CA Technologies is designed to help achieve the holy grail of alignment of IT with the business.

Analytics professionals to be in hot demand by 2018. The increasing demand for analytics professionals is also reflected in Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia (IAPA) membership growth and has inspired IAPA to relaunch its website as an online hub for members and those interested in analytics. The IAPA website (www.iapa.org.au) provides a community for those in analytics professions and those interested in analytics.

Chances are your company has begun work on budgets and strategy for the next financial year. Although IT is largely ethereal, although many execs do not understand it and although the world of technology is fast changing, you can be a world-class CIO that uses this process to articulate a clear strategy.