Some of the research
that Coalface Research has carried out over the years is outlined below with
the final report or web links to where this can be located.
The 'Value of Core Software Assets' was a study commissioned by Micro Focus in 2008. This research examined how both IT and Finance executives in Australia and New Zealand ascribed a value to the contribution their core software assets made to business performance. This research complimented similar research undertaken in Europe and North America by INSEAD, the Parisian based management school, which enabled the views of Australian and NZ executives to be contrasted with their counterparts overseas. The Australian and NZ research can be downloaded by clicking this link while the INSEAD reseach is available from the Micro Focus web site at http://www.microfocus.com/000/RecognisingTheTrueValueofSoftwareAssets_tcm21-16042.pdf.
IDC Forecast for Management research of IT
executives across Australia
and New Zealand.
This was a comprehensive 42 question paper-based survey undertaken every year from 1996 to 2004 and
coordinated by Peter Hind. It drew a response rate of between 300 and 400 senior IT executives each year. From these responses Peter Hind created a detailed report showing how the IT market has evolved in the South Pacific over the previous 12 months.
Summaries of Peter's analysis of the Forecast for Management research appeared as featured articles in CIO or Information Age Magazine in Australia and in CIO Magazine in New Zealand between 1999 and 2005. Please click on the link to read the summary.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) Annual Employment
survey. This was both a written and web based survey developed and managed by Peter Hind and undertaken
among members of the Australian Computer Society between 2002 and 2005. It attracted around 800 responses per year. Its aim was to provide some insight in to IT employment and unemployment trends among ICT professionals in Australia. In
the 2004 and 2005 iterations of this research Peter Hind worked in association
with Access Economics. Please click to download copies of the ACS 2002 Employment Survey, and the ACS 2004 Employment survey.
The Asia
Pacific Leaders Agenda. This was a partnership between Peter Hind, Coalface Dialogue and Fairfax Business Media, the publishers of MIS Asia magazine. The survey was both paper based and online and was carried out among
readers of MIS Magazine in Asia Pacific in 2006. Peter Hind helped design the
survey, he did the analysis of the results and he wrote the final report.
The 2005 Australian ICT Departmental staff
training survey was carried out by Peter Hind for the Australian Computer
Society among senior IT executives in Australia. The survey sought to gain insights in to how Australian CIOs and IT Managers were addressing the training of their IT departmental staff. Please click here to download a copy of the 2005 ACS IT Departmental staff training report.
The 2006 Leading Edge Forum
‘Business Imperatives survey’. This global research project compared business
executive and IT executive views on IT priorities. Peter Hind was responsible
for analyzing the Australian business executive responses and for the
analysis of all the global ICT executive responses.
The 2004 Professional Indemnity Insurance survey was carried out by Peter Hind among members of the Australian Computer Society in 2004. The aim of the survey was to determine the need for professional indemnity insurance among members of the Society. Please click to download a copy of the report.
The 2006 Asia Pacific eGovernment
readiness report. This was carried out by Fairfax Business Media on behalf
of FileNet. Peter Hind was responsible for the survey design, the question
selection, the analysis of the results and the final report. The report is available from FileNet Asia Pacific's offices in Singapore.
Peter Hind has undertaken many sponsored roundtable and focus group research projects. The final report is always owned by the sponsor organisation. However, the sponsors of a 1999 Focus Group, (which looked at how CIOs and IT Managers handle the challenges of email), have given permission for the report to be made generally available by Peter Hind. As such, this is provided as an example of a focus group report.
