For Australian businesses, the next 12 months are shaping up to be one of the toughest in living memory. With very few new sales conversions, businesses are turning inwards to rationalise and reduce costs in an effort to preserve their bottom line. From a technology perspective, this has come in the form of server virtualisation and the slow but steady embrace of open source software, including operating systems such as Linux.
With best practice guidance you can assist the organisation to contribute to the achievement of CSR without the need for additional frameworks and investments. So explains Karen Ferris, Keynote Speaker on Corporate Social Responsibility Policy and also director of the itSMF Australia Board of Management.
The financial storm may have passed and as Rhonda Ascierto, Senior Analyst at Ovum says I.T. spending will rise in 2010 - but it will be a year of reckoning for CIOs.
Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is.
If there is one area where the benefits of ICT reach their maximum potential in society, it would certainly be e-health - an area of exciting innovation and promise!