Diversity of thought and experience: hiring your clone will fail
Diversity of thought or Clone Army? In recent times, there has been a lot of talk about diversity (gender, race, cultural) and the many benefits for an organisation in embracing…
Digital culture, technology, #CIO, ITSM, social media, careers and leadership insights
Diversity of thought or Clone Army? In recent times, there has been a lot of talk about diversity (gender, race, cultural) and the many benefits for an organisation in embracing…
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…
People first, always…… 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 at the heart of any digital transformation.…
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 your Digital Transformation…
Has our ability to communicate changed? In this social media, digital culture driven world we live in there are 1.35 billion active users of Facebook, 284 million on twitter and our daily…
Kanban & Digital Operations Before I joined Spark Ventures I had always been frustrated with the planning (or lack thereof) of non BAU work. Basically anything that fell outside of Incident,…
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…
Adopt and Adapting Agile I aim to use 2 examples that demonstrate how you can deliver “projects” (both Software related and more complex work) for customers (in this case Product…
High performing teams = effective organisations? High performing teams are an integral part of an effective organisation. It is essential an organisation knows when and how to utilise a team…
Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) DR and BCP is not just about IT/Technology, it is however an organizational responsibility and ultimate accountability sits with that of the CEO to…
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 the essential parts of a process to deliver…
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…