Delivered at the bi-annual Council of Australasian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) conference at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Brisbane, Australia – October 2017

Rob’s presentation explored The CIO’s role in building a sustainable, enterprise-wide adaptive capability for constant

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Delivered at the 2017 Procurement and Contracting for ICT conference, this presentation explored:

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Our rapidly changing business, technological and cyber-security environments are increasing the need to focus on the short term.

This fuels short term-ism. What are the pitfalls?…

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Established organisations attempting to become more responsive and fast moving in the face of increasing change and uncertainty, need to overcome their own internal inertia.

How best to approach the challenge of building this continuous, sustainable change capability, that underpins …

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Effective project feedback processes should underpin adaptable, self-correcting and learning organisations.

However, the reality is often different.Recognise the risks of downplaying the ‘bad’ news up the chain of command.…

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The bottom line is that benchmarking IT, if used appropriately and for the right business reasons can be of considerable value.

The pitfalls, however could be significant.…

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What proportion of important strategic business decisions are made within an organisation without due consideration of IT from the start?

An executive’s role is to make decisions that will benefit the organisation. The reality is often different.…

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Business leaders are now spoilt for choice when it comes to the selection and adoption of new technologies for their organisations – or so it seems.

What factors should organisations consider when approaching the adoption of new technologies?…

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In this 20 minute presentation Rob offers 7 actionable insights to help educational institutions prepare for the Australian Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2016 – which comes into effect in February 2018.

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Presented at the University of Technology, Sydney’s DigiSAS Lab Seminar “Adaptive strategic journey management for leading digital transformation“, Rob explores:

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