Are you Prepared to Accelerate Digital Transformation: IT Service Mangement
Digital Transformation & IT Service Management I was pleased to have been asked to contribute by BMC, along with 14 Top Thinkers to this Guide (at the bottom of this…
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)…
The old-school CIO is dead: 4 Key challenges for the CIO 3.0
CIO 3.0: Breaking the Status Quo In this digital era, it is critical, not only for IT but for an organisation, that their CIO is at the forefront of digital…
Agile: How to Successfully Manage Multiple Delivery Teams
Adopt and Adapting Agile I aim to use 2 examples that demonstrate how you can deliver “projects” (both Software and more complex work) for customers (in this case Product Managers)…
IT Service Management (ITSM): Top 100 Influencers and Brands
Top 100 IT Service Management (ITSM) Influencers Onalytica a developer of social network analysis and influencer relationship management software, named Pete Yates as a Top 100 IT Service Management (ITSM)…
Spark Ventures: Why we chose Amazon Web Services? [Slideshare]
Why we chose Amazon Web Services? These are the slides (click on picture below) I presented at an EnterpriseIT and Amazon Web Services Event in Wellington, New Zealand on why…
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…
Help others: Sharing your Leadership Insights or Stories
Leadership insights, paying it forward I am looking to collect a series of leadership insights, either from a personal perspective or insights that were shared with you, maybe a leadership…
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) A Must for All Companies
Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) DR and BCP are not just about IT/Technology, it is however an organizational responsibility and ultimate accountability sits with that of the…
IT Service Management (ITSM) is for Startups as well
IT Service Management (ITSM) IT Service Management (ITSM) and ITIL should not just be for large organisations – where start-ups need to take the “less is more” approach to Service…
Lean Canvas – You Must Ask Yourself What Problem am I Solving?
Lean Canvas – solving a problem? Before you decide to undertake the creation of a new product, feature, start-up, business or idea, try asking yourself this question: What Problem am…
Leading Digital Transformation – Personality Rules Over Job Title?
Leading Digital Transformation (DX) In my article, Digital Transformation isn’t just about employing a CDO, I discussed digital transformation and touched briefly on how important it was that an organisation…