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Delivered at the bi-annual Council of Australasian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) conference at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Brisbane, Australia – October 2017 Rob’s presentation explored The CIO’s role in building a sustainable, enterprise-wide adaptive capability for constant change. New, digitally enabled ways of working …
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Delivered at the 2017 Procurement and Contracting for ICT conference, this presentation explored: How to build a holistic, adaptive ICT procurement capability that drives continuous business innovation and efficiency; How to identify and mitigate the systemic risks associated with ICT procurement; How to managing risks of corruption and malfeasance…
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Our rapidly changing business, technological and cyber-security environments are increasing the need to focus on the short term. This fuels short term-ism. What are the pitfalls? https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Episode-24-Business-short-term-ism-and-digital-transformation.mp3 The post Episode 24 – Business short term-ism and …
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Established organisations attempting to become more responsive and fast moving in the face of increasing change and uncertainty, need to overcome their own internal inertia. How best to approach the challenge of building this continuous, sustainable change capability, that underpins both efficiency and innovation, is key. https://rob-livingstone.co…
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Effective project feedback processes should underpin adaptable, self-correcting and learning organisations. However, the reality is often different.Recognise the risks of downplaying the ‘bad’ news up the chain of command. https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Episode-22-How-you-manage-bad-news-might-just-save-your-IT-project.mp3 T…
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The bottom line is that benchmarking IT, if used appropriately and for the right business reasons can be of considerable value. The pitfalls, however could be significant. https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Episode-21-IT-Benchmarking-why-bother-–-6-Questions-to-consider.mp3 The post Episode 21 – IT Benchmarking – why bother? – 6…
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What proportion of important strategic business decisions are made within an organisation without due consideration of IT from the start? An executive’s role is to make decisions that will benefit the organisation. The reality is often different. https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Episode-20-Business-Decision-making-for-increasi…
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Business leaders are now spoilt for choice when it comes to the selection and adoption of new technologies for their organisations – or so it seems. What factors should organisations consider when approaching the adoption of new technologies? https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Episode-19-Factors-often-overlooked-by-organisations…
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In this 20 minute presentation Rob offers 7 actionable insights to help educational institutions prepare for the Australian Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2016 – which comes into effect in February 2018. [Presentation delivered at EduTech 2017 conference, Sydney] YouTube video below: https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/…
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Presented at the University of Technology, Sydney’s DigiSAS Lab Seminar “Adaptive strategic journey management for leading digital transformation“, Rob explores: Digital transformation scorecard, The current CIO landscape, CIOs leading enterprise digital transformation capabilities – why this is important and some of the critical success factors Th…
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https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Episode-16-Best-practices-to-mitigate-data-breach-risk.mp3 Data Breach Risk is real, and of increasing concern to business leaders, regulators and customers. Audio of Rob Livingstone’s presentation at Trend Micro’s Executive briefing events Sydney and Melbourne 5-6 June 2017 on Australia’s new …
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Rob explores a number of aspects of your digital ecosystem, including IoT, executive’s ‘Digital literacy’ levels, fully utilising your existing IT systems, cyber-security and rapid change. See the non-technical challenges in your organisation’s Digital journey? https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Episode-15-Discussing-your-organi…
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Shadow IT – a term used to describe the use of IT / Digital / Cloud systems by individuals and parts of the organisation without the appropriate oversight – can add overall IT cost, increase complexity, elevate business risk and more. The business benefits may be substantial if handled correctly. https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/…
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Rob explores a range of business, organisational and governance factors that will ensure IT departments are able to incubate business relevant innovation to drive and deliver sustainable business value https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Episode-13-‘IT-–-business-alignment’-and-business-innovation.mp3 or, Subscribe via iTunes The…
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How do organisations and their IT departments rate when it comes to protecting themselves and their organisations against the ever present cyber risks and cyber-crime? The answer is, on average, poorly. In this episode Rob explores key organisational factors that have an overriding influence on the likelihood of data breaches such as business strat…
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A rising proportion of data breaches and adverse cyber events are avoidable or self inflicted. No longer are the majority of cyber threat have their origins coming from outside the organisation, and increasing proportion have their origins stemming from within the organisation – some say in excess of 60%. These arise from factors such as human erro…
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For business decision makers, striking the right balance between owning or transferring the risk – through cyber insurance – is not as straightforward as it may initially appear. In this episode, Rob offers 6 key points to consider when taking on cyber insurance http://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Episode-10-Cyberinsurance-and-you…
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The conventional approach to managing IT vendors may not be adequate in our rapidly changing business environments or in the adoption of your new, emerging and disruptive business technologies. In this episode Rob explores contracts based on gain-share, vendor ecosystems, managing changing risk appetite over time, and more http://rob-livingstone.co…
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How do prescriptive SLAs help your organisation in changing environments? This is especially relevant for IT supply contracts – outsourcing, service provisioning and the like – which may work well for both the vendor / service provider in relatively stable environments. Problem is, in the digital / technology and IT environment, change is rapid. In…
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The fundamental question for most established organisations is to define what role your IT team are to play in the journey of business transformation. How this role is defined could be the game changer needed to drive sustainable business value. In this episode Rob shares his perspectives and insights on how and why the engagement of your IT functi…
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What are the critical success factors that determine any established organisation’s transition to developing a sustainable and value-driven innovation capability? In this episode, Rob shares his insights and explores the topic of how best organisations can build their own innovation capability to deliver sustainable business results – while balanci…
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Resilient organisations thrive in the face of rapid and unexpected change. Fact is, versatile leaders and staff underpin versatile teams and organisations able to foster and sustain an innovation culture that translates into business value, not just marketing-speak about ‘innovation’. In this episode, Rob explores this and offers 3 keys to building…
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How effective is legislation in today’s fast paced digital world? In many developed countries, there are specific laws governing Online agreements, the use of electronic signatures, your rights to online privacy and mandatory data breach reporting. Question is: What protections are offered under such laws in our border-less online world when it com…
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While the business potential for the adoption of IoT and IoT enabled ‘smart devices’ may be clear, the role that your IT department and vendors play in ensuring IoT is not only a success, but does not cripple your business through a cyber attack is less clear. In this episode, Rob explores a range of topics that every business executive needs to co…
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Reporting a data breach that carries a “real risk of serious harm” are now mandatory under the Australian Government’s recently enacted Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016. All well and good, in theory at least. How practically this can be achieved in our highly connected and rapidly changing digital world is altogether another m…
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Welcome to the Livingstone Advisory thought leadership podcast series – offering independent, expert and thought provoking insights aimed at helping both you and your organisation improve agility and successfully navigate our rapidly evolving digital landscape. This podcast series covers an extensive range of topics including business strategy, lea…
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https://rob-livingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AES-Final.mp3 Please subscribe to our new channel available in iTunes. The following brief video explains the continuation of this journey of how to build enterprise-wide adaptability and agility. Visit https://www.adaptive-strategy.com/ The post This series is continued at www.adaptive-strateg…
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Developing, implementing and maintaining an adaptable and resilient enterprise strategies and architecture in the face of rapid change is a serious challenge facing many business executives. In this episode, Rob Livingstone and Asif Gill explore the impact that the IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data is having on enterprise strategy and architect…
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Episode 6: This episode Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill explore the topics of (i) Managing and (ii) Supporting the adaptive enterprise strategy capability within the organisation. This follows on the previous episodes where the topics of (a) defining and (b) Operating the adaptive enterprise strategy capability were explored, which are at the core…
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In this podcast episode, Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill explore how organisations, in defining and operating an Adaptive Enterprise strategy capability, need to consider a range of key elements. These include (i) the roles of key people, (ii) taking external inputs based on other best practice business strategy or IT frameworks, as well as (iii) …
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In this podcast episode, Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill explore The Gill Adaptive Enterprise framework in greater detail. We explore why social architecture cannot be overlooked, as well as provide an overview of the key elements comprising the Gill framework. We also touch on why ‘IT and Business alignment’ is no longer relevant in many contempo…
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Episode 3: Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill discuss enterprise architectures, including TOGAF, Zachman, how they are relevant to organisations coming to grips with adaptability, as well as providing an overview of the Gill framework . Explored why the enterprise strategy is the starting point for the transformation of the organisation to meet chang…
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In podcast episode 2, Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill explore at a high level: (i) some of the key considerations relating to enterprise adaptability, (ii) an overview of the open-source Gill Framework, and (iii) some of the challenges facing organisations seeking to become more adaptable and agile in the face of externally applied changes. These …
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Introducing the Adaptive Enterprise Strategy podcast series, where Rob Livingstone and Dr Asif Gill will be covering the concept of Adaptive and Agile Enterprise Strategy. In many instances organisation’s enterprise strategies are not agile enough to adapt to, and adopt change rapidly enough. Often there is a real disconnect between the overarching…
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