Time to Create My Own Blogging Content Well, I thought I would give blogging a go by actually creating my own site, instead of producing content for others, I wanted to continue to develop my own personal brand, using and…
Kanban Done Wrong: What’s Slowing Your Ops Team Down 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) of non-BAU work. Basically, anything…
CIO 3.0: The 4 Biggest Challenges Facing Today’s Digital Leaders In this digital era, it is critical, not only for IT but for an organisation, that their CIO is at the forefront of digital innovation and disruption. The CIO 3.0…
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) using single and multiple teams but still remain largely Agile…
Ranked on the first page of Google I was really struggling with getting my articles to be ranked on the first page of Google, which I hoped would ultimately lead to an improvement in traffic to my blog. I persevered…
How to Optimise Blog Performance with Smart SEO Improvements I have slacked off a bit this month, producing nowhere near the amount of content (only 4 posts) compared with 14 posts published last month. Not surprisingly, then, I have seen…
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) influencer for 2016 (coming in at number 74). I was…
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 we chose Amazon Web Services to enable and support innovation…
Firstly, what is Business Strategy? We need to start at the beginning and truly understand what Business Strategy is. I have asked myself this many times, and historically, it has been a yearly PowerPoint presentation and a video clip of…
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 story, helpful books to read or even those leadership experts…
Business Continuity: How to Prepare and Protect Your Business DR and BCP are not just about IT/Technology; it is, however, an organisational responsibility, and ultimate accountability sits with the CEO and Board to ensure their business continues to operate in…
Social Sharing Buttons, use Wisely Do you have poor site load time, affecting user experience, due to social sharing buttons? Social sharing buttons can impact your blog’s performance in both positive and negative ways. On the plus side, they make…