Tag: Leadership
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…
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…
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…
Governing through a cyber crisis
This morning I attended the AICD’s “Governing Through a Cyber Crisis” because I was interested to see what strategies for building a cyber-resilient organisation would be covered at a board level. As a 30-year tech professional, I reckon there’s a difference between governing through a crisis and building a cyber-resilient organisation – but it depends…
