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…
Business transformation and why you should not neglect perception
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 when it comes to Digital Transformation
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.…
Who’s Leading your Digital Transformation? 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 your Digital Transformation…
Has Digital Culture ruined our ability to communicate?
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…
Adopting and Adapting Agile for IT Teams and beyond
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,…
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…
How to manage multiple delivery teams whilst remaining Agile?
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…
How building high performing teams is no accident
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…
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning: why bother?
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…
Spark Ventures – Our journey to 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 the essential parts of a process to deliver…
Bimodal IT – 6 key areas for a successful Digital Transformation
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…