Changing reality for the Digital CIO Picture this….you are a CIO in a large enterprise and have no legacy applications/infrastructure and have the flexibility to use any number of SaaS-based solutions to meet business needs. Sadly that is not the…

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…

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…

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…

SaaS Applications Are Changing Business Forever Most people are aware of the consumption of Software as a Service or SaaS Applications on a pay-per-use basis, such as storage (Dropbox), music (Spotify), email (Google), and television (Netflix) and how SaaS Applications…