Tag: Risk
Privacy risk in Australia
This week is Privacy Awareness Week in Australia, and I attended a webinar on AI, automated decision-making and privacy risk, presented by privacy law expert Anna Johnston from Helios Salinger. Over a thousand people registered for the webinar, an impressive effort. The webinar covered a lot of ground. What it mostly did for me was…
Your team is already using AI. Does your organisation know what for?
I just finished a conversation with a long-time client who was keen to show off their new toy – a Claude.ai account their organisation had recently set up. They’d been exploring what it could do and had just discovered something that genuinely impressed them. “Claude – can you see my email?” Yes. “Can you look…
The myth of set and forget technology investments
There’s a pattern that repeats itself across organisations of every size: new technology gets implemented successfully, then the assumption is that it’s sorted for the next five years. The system is running, the migration is done, the CRM is deployed. Move on. Technology doesn’t work that way. What performs well today becomes a liability in…
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…
AI innovation for business: beyond the hype
AI is everywhere. Every vendor pitch includes it. Every conference has sessions about it. AI innovation is the latest hype cycle in full swing, complete with obviously AI-generated stock images (like the one on this article). For mid-sized businesses, the question isn’t “Should we use AI?” but “What AI innovation actually makes sense for our…
