Now that we are able to connect various physical devices ‘smartly’, this additional capability is further fuelling the rate of technological change. As with any technological evolution, the benefits also carry with them some risks. In this instance the cyber risks associated with the IoT are very real. These take …
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Recent estimates suggest that approximately only 1 per cent of non-Executive Directors at Europe’s top 100 companies have proven digital skills. This fact is also not lost on the Australian Institute of Company Directors, who identified the low executive level digital literacy as a challenge early in 2013.
With the …
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When does business improvement or business transformation become an ‘innovation’? Who cares, really? It’s business outcomes that matter.
Whether labelled as ‘business transformation’, ‘re-engineering’, ‘improvement’ or Innovation – the bottom line is that implementing organisational change is easy to say and hard – especially those that have been around for …
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Why are the long standing US safe harbor privacy data jurisdiction provisions now suddenly ‘not-so-safe harbour’ provisions?
Mr Max Schrems, an Austrian national and digital activist was concerned that Facebook could not guarantee his privacy as his personal data was located in the U.S.
He lodged his complaint to …
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That digital technologies have and will continue to unleash disruptive changes on the commercial, regulatory and social landscapes is nothing new. Fact is, within established organisations, defining exactly who is responsible for digital strategy for the business is not clear cut.
Ensuring that your business remains relevant in the face …
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Business decision-making was never easy. In today’s fast paced, data driven world, it’s just got a bit harder for those rusted onto 20th Century approaches.
An executive’s role is to make decisions that will benefit the organisation. The reality is often different.
Decision-making is frequently done under time pressure …
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This is the transcript of the post conference CSO interview with Rob Livingstone on key risk, governance and cloud contract considerations
The CSO CXO Series event was sponsored by Trend Micro and held in Melbourne on 31st July 2015. Interview conducted by David Braue, CSO Moderator
David Braue (CSO): Well …
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Question: Why is resilience so important at every level of organisation?
Answer: Because change impacts every level of the organisation and is becoming increasingly volatile and unpredictable.
Why sustainable value hinges on versatility and resilience.
That organisations and employees (careers) alike are increasingly being impacted by the competitive forces …
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Consider the following questions: Can you see past ‘IT – business alignment’ to realise your organisation’s innovation goals? To what extent are innovation and INtrepreneurship (not to be confused with entrepreneurship) in evidence across your organisation? What are the value drivers and how are these identified and defined? Has …
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The IoT (Internet of things) is nothing new in that networked, connected and (semi) intelligent devices have been around for a long, long time. However, what is different is the explosion of the type and number of ‘smart’ devices that can be connected to the internet. Welcome to the …
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At the heart of the debates over data retention and privacy legislation lie the key considerations of data rights and data security. Question is: What is the effectiveness of legislation in our volatile, opaque and insecure online world?
More specifically, how does the effectiveness of legislation stand up in …
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Many established organisations still regard IT as a ‘service’ function to the business. IT as a ‘service’ – makes good sense from an organisational design perspective, right? Cost is one aspect. Question is, where’s the value lie? Can you identify the business value driver for each IT initiative?
The world …
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How do you develop a business relevant benchmark in a rapidly evolving environment? More importantly, have the key IT Benchmarking challenges been identified and adequately covered?
The adoption of industry ‘best practice’ makes good commercial and business sense is it harvests the cumulative learning of others – specifically, what produced …
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Data breaches represent only the tip of the cybercrime and data breach iceberg, and operatives appear to be breaching enterprise IT security systems with impunity. The data protection threat and continual cyber attacks to organisations is real.
Data protection threat – Legislation and regulation
The effectiveness of any data breach …
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Keeping businesses relevant in today’s volatile and globally hyper-connected world, where the technology fuelled disruption of entire markets and industries alike, presents a real and ongoing challenge for business leaders.
The simultaneous impacts of factors such as the speed of technology-induced change and globalisation further accelerate these changes.
Established organisations …
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The speed of Big Data adoption is a much hyped element of our online world, and where data driven organizations seem to be thriving.
As a concept, Big Data is nothing new. It’s origins stem from the earliest days of computing when societies (large businesses and governments) started massing …
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How well are you facing up to the big data challenges that are thrown up as part of your attempts at becoming a data driven organisation?
Whether the budget for your business’ big data initiatives comes from within IT, or the business, or a bit of both, if it’s Big …
Continue readingHow do the real costs of IT relate to your organisation’s ability to rapidly respond to change?
Put another way, do adaptable organisations result after adopting the latest technologies? Or are adaptable organisational cultures and capabilities a prerequisite for the successful implementation of modern digital and information technologies?
From the …
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In 2001, the Agile Manifesto set out a series of guiding principles in the adoption of a more responsive, effective and less wasteful approach to software development. Often seen as a ‘better’ way than the traditional waterfall software development process, is it as clear cut as making a decision …
Continue readingIn the face of today’s increasingly competitive, unpredictable and demanding globalised business environments, the challenge facing the leadership at every level in today’s established organisations lie in building enterprise agility and adaptability without compromising the integrity, risk profile and otherwise good governance of the overall organisation.
‘Business as usual’ is …
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