CIOs must make security a top priority
For a country like South Africa that is visibly paranoid about security, the country’s information security landscape is seriously lagging in terms of awareness and practical, relevant application. Today’s chief information officer (CIO) needs to keep tabs...Barnstone offering counters CIO uncertainty
Gartner’s 2015 CIO Agenda shows that CIOs face high levels of uncertainty in 2015, with distinct regional differences in the actual challenges faced. The one constant, though, is what the research house calls “the unstoppable advancement of digitalisation”....Chinese CIOs need to change their style
Chief information officers (CIOs) in China are less aware than their global counterparts that they will need to change in order to succeed in digital business, according to a new report from Gartner. In its annual survey of more than 2 810 CIOs worldwide, representing...Issues keeping CIOs awake at night
Key issues keeping CIOs and IT professionals up at night in 2015 include downtime, security and IT talent acquisition. The findings from a recent survey by Sungard AS are particularly relevant to the South African market, and local ICT specialist Quintica warns that socio-economic issues such as load shedding, a less than buoyant local economy and the increasing brain drain, are not providing much solace to our own CIOs.