management & leadership
Spoke at a women in technology conference recently on the topic of how to future proof your career. It might seem strange that I hardly mentioned technology at all in this talk. But the essentials for a long career are mostly outside of technology. Any intelligent person can pick up
technology
The annual Harvey Nash CIO Survey launched in Sydney in early December 2014. This is a long running CIO survey with responses from more than 3,200 CIOs and technology leaders globally. It was interesting to join the panel at this event for a lively discussion of technology and business
awards
Really honoured to have been listed among such an august list of women on the Smart Company list of Australia’s most powerful women in technology. (That’s a pic of the lovely and smart Pip Marlow though).
future
Did a talk recently about Social and technology trends for banking, here are the slides. Will write up some notes on this soon too. [slideshare id=27142379&doc=social-banking-oct2013-pdf-131013072022-phpapp01]
IoT
I gave a talk at Social Media Women in Sydney this week. The slides are below, I will get around to writing a longer piece about the internet of things soon. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/internet-of-things-24077797/24077797?from_search=0
future
Following is a copy of some remarks that made about the future of jobs at the IT Talent Management Conference IT18. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak here today. I will start with a brief consideration of my own IT career and then consider how the changing
management & leadership
With the changing business world it is a good idea to think about habitual business practices to ensure that we are not doing things that made sense for the past and which do not make sense now. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
future
Recently Rebecca Nash from ABC's The Business asked me to consider the future of business over the next decade. Here's some thoughts from that conversation. The future of business has always been driven by developments in technology, and the digital revolution is of equivalent substance to
future
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the digital revolution and the changes that it is driving in the economy. We are seeing a bifurcation between the old 19th and 20th century manufacturing based industries and the 21st century digital economy. This is a shift from creation of
startups
A mate reached out to me today asking if I knew any geeks who would be interested in working with him on a startup project. Here are the details he shared: We have developed some outrageously good Intellectual Property and concepts, and the plan is to rapidly prototype for 6-8
business
There was a recent article in The Australian that discussed the National Broadband Network (NBN) and the possibilities that it opens up for teleworking. However, I do recomend that organisations start to think about how they can measure staff output rather than time sitting at a desk. "Similarly, Kate
social computing & social media
I was lucky enough to be invited to Media 140 in Perth recently to discuss what the 'big idea' is with social media. The idea was for a context setting discussion about social media and how it is changing business and society. DIGITAL REVOLUTION We are living through