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Today I was promoted to CIO within the Naval Shipbuilding College, to build on the vision of a data-driven enterprise to evolve the sovereign capability of naval shipbuilding in Australia. I am honoured to be recognised after my first eight months to be credited with having the abilities and approach… Continue Reading My journey to CIO

I will show you how to achieve successes through playing off the inherent nature of people to be lazy. There is a tendency for people – no matter how intelligent and engaged they are – to take the easiest option, and there are ways that you can use this to… Continue Reading Use the lazy option for success

A hot topic around the world is the use of digital systems to record health information for people. It’s not just the healthcare record security concerns – the fear that information can be hacked or even changed, it also has roots in incomplete recording of information, and how healthcare professionals… Continue Reading Healthcare record security concerns

We have all heard it before; “I am not worried about my data, I am not very interesting or important” or similar assertions that their bank account does not have much money to steal, or their Facebook / Instagram posts are not embarassing or personal. However, this common viewpoint is… Continue Reading Why be concerned with personal data security?

Unfortunately working extra hours and overworking has become a ‘badge of honour’ to try and prove that you are a hard worker and somehow to justify that you are valuable to your business. I strongly disagree and consider overworking a disease that must be cured. Overworking leads to burnout. Overworking… Continue Reading The overworking disease

Every week, millions of people dutifully complete their timesheets, just as businesses have expected of them for decades. The tyranny of timesheets has been something that many employees have endured and been frustrated by for almost as long – we all hate timesheets. Admittedly, there are some positive reasons for… Continue Reading The tyranny of timesheets

2020 has not started well, particularly in Australia with bushfires, floods and now Coronavirus. It is undeniable that life and culture will be changed forever by the lockdown of business and society caused by the global pandemic that has gripped the whole world. The short, medium and long term effects… Continue Reading How Covid-19 may change business and IT

It may feel like the ability to work from home makes home isolation possible to do remote working during Covid, but it is not all perfect… Recent events in 2019/2020 have shown the demand for people to self-isolate or quarantine themselves to reduce the spread of Coronavirus or COVID-19, and… Continue Reading Home isolation – is remote working the saviour?

I have been involved in the drive for Digital Transformation for many businesses over the last few years, and time and again I see the spectre of misunderstandings appearing. The truth is, Digital Transformation is about process and people, not technology. Here are some of the biggest errors; Digital Transformation… Continue Reading Digital Transformation is about process and people, not technology

Even though public cloud is mainstream, and more businesses are going “all in”. They are going for a multi-cloud, hybrid or blended cloud – yet there are still many misunderstandings in those who have not started, and many cloud myths persist. For businesses that are early on their journey to… Continue Reading Misunderstandings of Cloud

There are many people concerned about new technology ‘stealing’ jobs, but in reality it is just changing the types of jobs that people have. A particular example is remote telemetry and the effect on jobs. For centuries, society has been challenged by technological changes that have an impact on jobs,… Continue Reading Remote telemetry and the effect on jobs

The problem with backups Legacy approaches to backup in the IT industry are largely focussed on performing a backup of an entire server. This means that multiple backups will contain a full copy of the Windows operating system, and other files that will never need to be restored. Follow this… Continue Reading Backup for cloud

Security is a rapidly moving beast – faster than any other facet of the technology industry. We are in a constant battle with everyone from hackers to script-kiddies, from targeted data theft attacks to Denial of Service. Our security teams and network administrators are playing catch-up with the malicious operators.… Continue Reading Your security is obsolete

We have all had it before – something that has been around for a long time, and we have no idea if it is important any more – but no-one will take the ownership to declare that it can be disposed of. This is where the Scream Test comes in.… Continue Reading The Scream Test

Skills evaporation is a blight that affects many businesses, particularly monolithic large businesses and governments. Skills evaporation will happen when good people leave a business to pursue better opportunities, taking knowledge with them – but also the culture of the remaining people is that their skills are reduced by the… Continue Reading Skills evaporation

In the new economy, innovation and creativity is highly desirable, emotional intelligence and adaptability are more important than ever. But, has the education system kept up? Is it true that education makes us stupid? Are we being educated out of innovation, or is innovation being educated out of us? Education… Continue Reading Educated out of innovation