Another excellent "Women Of The MCC" Business Breakfast at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with my friend Tracey, MC-ed by Jacqui Felgate and guest speaker Sally Capp AO 👍
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Women Of The MCC Business Breakfast
Another excellent "Women Of The MCC" Business Breakfast at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with my friend Tracey, MC-ed by Jacqui Felgate and guest speaker Sally Capp AO 👍
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
CIO Leaders Summit Australia, Melbourne 2024
Today I attended the CIO/CISO Leaders Summit Australia, Melbourne 2024. I was offered a complimentary ticket by reps at Focus Network.
The event included both CIO and CISO streams, and we could attend sessions in either stream so I switched across a couple of times.
This photo was taken after a session titled: "Closing Keynote Panel Discussion: Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity and Tech – Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Female Talent" - where the majority of blokes decided to leave the room. Which pretty much sums up the problem with women in tech right there.
More info:
CIO Leaders: https://focusnetwork.co/cioleadersaustralia.com/melbourne/
CISO Leaders: https://focusnetwork.co/cisoleaders.com.au/melbourne/
Program:
8:00 Registration, Badge Collection & Refreshments
8:30 Welcome and Introduction & Master of Ceremonies
8:40 Opening Debate: Balancing Innovation and Security: Who Should Have the Final Say in Approving New Technologies?
9:05 Keynote Presentation – Artificial intelligence and your business
9:40 Keynote Panel Discussion: AI in the Enterprise: Balancing Innovation and Security
10:15 Keynote Presentation: Accelerating Cloud Security to enable AI: How Security teams can adopt a new operating model to enable agile AI adoption?
10:50 Networking Break
11:10 Breakout Session: How REA Group Utilises Behavioural Data Science to Safeguard Against Email Borne Threats and Streamline Security Protocols
11:10 Breakout Session: Are You Ready to Adopt a New Cloud Security Operation Model?
11:10 Breakout Session: The Essential Eight & The Modern Threat Landscape
11:10 Breakout Session: Driving the Right Work to the Right Resource at the Right Time
11:45 Speaking Presentation: Unmasking cybercrime, the law enforcement response
12:20 Keynote Speaking Presentation: Reducing Risk with Modern Identity Management
12:55 Breakout Session: Identity Protection in an AI-Driven World
12:55 Breakout Session: The Essential Eight: Overcoming Your Challenges with PAM
12:55 Breakout Session: Balancing Innovation and Risk: Enhancing CX with AI and Quality
12:55 Breakout Session: A Practical Guide to Driving Digital/AI Innovation in Enterprises
13:30 Networking Lunch
14:15 Speaking Presentation: The Art and Science of Deception
14:50 Speaking Session: Empathy in Cybersecurity Leadership: Navigating Beyond Conventional Wisdom
15:25 Networking Break
15:45 Keynote Speaking Session: Australian Cybersecurity Trends and Initiatives Research
16:10 Closing Keynote Panel Discussion: Breaking Barriers: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity and Tech – Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Female Talent
16:40 Closing Remarks
16:45 Networking Drinks
Friday, 30 August 2024
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. A similar report by BCG in 2020 showed similar findings.
Putting aside my personal views around how innovations in technology automatically imply the need for an ongoing state of transformation that doesn’t require a 21st century buzzword-y title – why do so many Transformation initiatives fail?
This article was first published on LinkedIn and is also on the ENVEE Digital blog.
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Waterfall or Agile?
A couple of years ago I was asked by a client if they should “Go Agile”. I just stumbled on this graphic which perfectly sums up my response at the time. Basically, if your organisation has a fixed budget, fixed timeframe and fixed set of deliverables, that’s pretty much what Waterfall was designed for and it’s worked well for decades.
When Waterfall makes sense: Government contracts, regulatory compliance projects, infrastructure implementations where requirements are well-defined upfront and changes are expensive. You know exactly what needs to be delivered, you have a fixed budget and timeline, and scope changes require formal approval processes. Waterfall excels here.
When Agile makes sense: Product development where user needs evolve as you learn more. Software projects where requirements emerge through experimentation. Situations where delivering working functionality early and iterating based on feedback creates better outcomes than planning everything upfront.
This article was first published on LinkedIn and is also on the ENVEE Digital blog.
Saturday, 6 July 2024
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 article with the deceptively mild title “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?”, which caused an uproar in business schools.
Today, leadership is formally taught in a distinct way from management in MBA degrees and other courses, so it appears the answer to this 40+yo question is "yes".
This article was first published on LinkedIn and is also on the ENVEE Digital blog.
