Research & Insights
Be in the know about the latest industry issues, ideas and opportunities.
The following documents were sponsored by Telstra Global to highlight industry-leading analysts' viewpoints on topical and emerging issues. They share forward-thinking strategies that are being proposed to address current and future challenges within the industry.
State of the Asian CXO 2012
This 16-page study provides insights on the current use of technology and IT operations of senior executives and also their outlook for the next 12 months.
Is the future of your business in the cloud?
Access leading insights from Telstra, Westpac and IPscape on the future of your business in the cloud.
2012 for the Financial Services CIO
New regulations and internal drives for increased efficiency and new opportunities within emerging markets mean that the CIO is fundamental in helping financial institutions generate growth.
This 24-page whitepaper looks at the role IT is likely to play in the coming years in financial services.
Asia Pacific Summit 2011
In October 2011, the Asia Pacific Summit brought together a range of experience and perspective, from London Business School academics to some of the world's leading businesses.

Legal IT
The legal sector is increasingly expanding into new markets and wherever business operations go, a robust network must follow.
Whitepapers

Designing Asian Expansion Strategies – How IT can Drive Business Growth in Asia
Despite the global downturn which has severely impacted Western markets, economies across Asia Pacific have gone from strength to strength.
State of the Asian CXO 2011
With an uncertain economic outlook for 2012 and IT budgets once again being tightened, CIOs are under pressure to become increasingly innovative and re-focus IT strategy on core revenue-generating activities.
Or download the coverage of our CIO Roundtable event in CIO Asia magazine. CIO Roundtable events were organised in Hong Kong, Singapore and India to discuss the key findings of the 2012 survey with their readers.
Industry Reports
Learn how to position outsourced managed services as a viable option to secure buy-in from business users in this special guide published by Enterprise Innovation.
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The CIO’s Guide to Managed Services Success (872 KB)
Access a research report, published by Fairfax Business Media and CIO AsiaMagazine, of over 300 business leaders across 7 countries and learn about the biggest challenges that CXOs in Asia are facing in 2011.
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Oct 2010 - CIO Asia State of Asian CXO Survey 2010 (1MB)
Analyst Insight
Phil Mottram at the IT Briefing Centre
The 2011 Gartner CIO Survey found that Cloud Computing is now a top technology priority for CIOs. In this program, Gartner’s John Roberts and Telstra Global's Phil Mottram examine:
- The difference between Productivity and Efficiency
- The implications for making the shift from cost arbitrage and efficiency to value creation and effectiveness in your investment prioritisation
- And the role that managed networked services play in moving the enterprise productivity marker.
Jim Clarke on Telecom TV
Telstra Global Director for Global Carrier Sales, Jim Clarke discusses the restructure of the REACH joint venture with Telecom TV and outlines how it will drive greater customer satisfaction and shareholder value.
With business optimism on the rise, enterprises are starting to resurrect their regional expansion plans resulting in calls for IT updates and new technologies to help enable business. Find out how IT end-users are rethinking vendor relationships to apply new criteria when selecting the right partner.
CIOs face the challenge of improving data networks and server infrastructure used to deliver mission critical applications – more recently enriched collaborative services such as high-definition video conferencing are fuelling a greater demand for “always-on-always-reliable” bandwidth and service quality. Find out how organisations are adopting their technology to ensure the best network optimisation route is taken.
With market recovery underway, financial institutions will need to re-examine their IT infrastructure capabilities and find ways to effectively manage the network to meet business requirements. Find out how and why they are considering managed services to help manage complex networks.
Virtualisation has completely changed the IT services paradigm. All of the key concepts that can be attributed to virtualisation such as economies of scale, ability to extract underlying hardware from the application, and business agility have turned this technology into a game-changer for telcos.
