Tag: Change Management
Digital strategy at the executive level
Business Growth, Change Management, Cybersecurity, Financials, Leadership, Risk, Strategy, Technology, TransformationI’ve sat in boardrooms on both sides of the table – as an internal Head of IT and as an external advisor. I’ve also completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors “Foundations of Directorship” course. The pattern is consistent: technology gets treated as operational support rather than part of digital strategy. IT appears on the…
IT Current State Assessment
Business Growth, Change Management, Cybersecurity, Governance and Compliance, Not-for-Profit, Project Management, Risk, Strategy, TechnologyI’ve worked with not-for-profit and community organisations for years. The pattern is relatively consistent: technology initiatives operate separately from organisational strategy, creating inefficiencies that compound over time. Recently I worked with an NFP to deliver a comprehensive Current State Assessment for their IT function. The process revealed where things were working, where they weren’t and…
Change Management strategies
Change management in technology often gets reduced to IT operations announcing what patches will be applied over the weekend. This misses the entire point of why change processes exist. Effective change management helps the business achieve their goals without drowning stakeholders in notifications they can’t act on. Getting this right requires understanding what change management…
Digital Transformation, the latest buzzword
With news last week of a decade-old incomplete $340m federal government transformation, let’s talk about Digital Transformation because it seems like every organisation is trying to do one these days. Talk about a buzzword! According to a 2022 McKinsey & Co study, a majority of transformation projects fall short of expectations, often with profound consequences.…
What leaders really do
I was having this conversation recently and mentioned this article, and lo and behold this morning it appears in my feed. (This post isn’t my usual complaint about algorithms although my issues there continue to be the same). This article was first written in 1977, when Harvard Business School professor Abraham Zaleznik published an HBR…
