Afternoon Highlight (02/04/13/53/751) MDeC Partners IDC To Launch CIO Survival Guide

MDeC Partners IDC To Launch CIO Survival Guide

KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 (Bernama) -- The Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), in partnership with technology market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), will launch the Chief Information Officer (CIO) survival guide programme.

In a statement Tuesday, MDeC said the programme is an effort to help Malaysian CIOs more efficiently address the challenges associated with surviving and thriving in a rapidly changing and competitive marketplace.

It said the programme will focus on helping CIOs not only cope with the rapidly changing technological landscape, but to better equip them to help service their internal customers as well as drive real value for their organisation's external customers.

MDeC said the first of the survival guide series will focus on how organisations can improve their ability to be more strategic with information technology (IT) investments so as to ensure that IT strategy is better aligned to business strategies and goals.

MDeC Chief Executive Officer Datuk Badlisham Ghazali said the CIO survival guide is an ideal opportunity for CIOs to gain knowledge on the various issues and challenges in order to succeed.

He said the first in the series is especially relevant and will focus on best practices in respective industries.

Meanwhile, Simon Piff, Associate Vice-President, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC Asia/Pacific, said the challenge facing most CIOs is that the true value of the work they do only manifests itself in the efficient creation, capture and access by the business of the data that underlies all IT.

However, he said, in order to provide efficient access to the information that lies within the data, CIOs have to focus their energies on infrastructure that, to many business users, is an abstract layer away from what the business perceives as important.

It said selected Malaysian CIOs will work with MDeC and IDC to participate in a summit in June.

"Participants at this year's summit entitled 'The Information Enabled Enterprise' will be given the chance to benchmark their competencies against their peers across Malaysian industries as well as to interact with other IT leaders in order to gain insights into some of the available best practices," it added.

Source: Bernama

Date: 02 April 2013

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