The Power of Self-Reflection: Unlocking Personal Growth
Affiliate links are in this post Self-Reflection for you? By taking the time to look inward, we can better understand our experiences, identify areas for personal growth, and make more…
Transformation: Unlocking Success Through Your People
Transformation and your people In my article, Digital transformation isn’t just about employing a CDO I discussed digital transformation and touched briefly on how your people and customers must be…
Balancing Innovation: Key Behaviours for Success
Having an Innovation Culture In today’s rapidly changing world, fostering an innovation culture is essential for organisations striving to stay ahead of the curve and achieve long-term success. An innovation…
Business Transformation: Why Perception is so Critical
Business Transformation and Perception One of the biggest lessons for me as a leader was seeing how much credence both individuals and teams placed on their perceptions during periods of…
Who’s Leads Digital Transformation (DX)? Job Title v Characteristics
This is an article I wrote as a guest author for BTOES Insights, the content portal for Business Transformation & Operational Excellence opinions, reports & news. Who leads Digital Transformation…
How Do You Build High Performing Teams That Succeed?
High Performing Teams: The Backbone of Organisational Success High performing teams are an integral part of an effective organisation. Recognising when and how to utilize a team, and more importantly,…
#GirlsBehindtheGames – Diversity within the Gaming Industry
On a mission to take on Diversity within the Gaming Industry A #GirlsBehindTheGames campaign has been launched by a games studio in New Zealand, called ‘Runaway Play’. The campaign calls…
Kanban: Adopting and Adapting Agile for IT Teams and Beyond
Kanban & Digital Operations Before I joined Spark Ventures (the R&D group of New Zealand’s largest Telco, Spark NZ) I had always been frustrated with the planning (or lack thereof)…
What is Strategy – Why is it critical to Business success?
Firstly, what is Strategy? We need to start at the beginning and truly understand; what is Strategy. I have asked myself this many times and historically it has been a…
Spark Ventures – Our journey to Digital Service Management
Digital Service Management – Exceeding expectations Here at Spark Ventures (in New Zealand) we have taken the “less is more” approach to Digital Service Management, where we are utilising only…
Consumption of SaaS applications will be the new business reality?
SaaS Applications the new norm at work? Most people are aware of the consumption (Software as a Service or SaaS-based, pay-per-use) based services such as storage (Dropbox), music (Spotify), email…