Smart Cities Rewarded By Digital Opportunities

Strategic Planning Assumption: By 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) will become a critical feature in 65% of smart city implementations,…

Councils struggle on road to transformation - Government News

Only three per cent of local governments consider themselves to have fully transformed customer experience through ICT, a survey has…

Cloud can drive productivity, innovation. Does your Digital Strategy support this?

Cloud and Edge services are essential elements for your Digital Transformation. We will define the value proposition that Data Centre,…

AI - Not Yet?

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Oracle Core Replacement - Banking ITNews

Suncorp’s technology troubles have snowballed after interim chief executive Steve Johnston refused to give a go-live date for its…

Smart cities require smart legislation - Government News

These levels of control ensure that the relevant information is only shared with the authorised third-party which mitigates the risk…

Coles applying GPU-accelerated machine learning & IoT

Coles is “applying GPU-accelerated machine learning, mechatronics, electronic engineering and the internet of things to solve some of Coles’ most complex business problems,” stated by Ben Youl, one of Lab288’s founders – and head of disruptive technology.

The article also goes on in stating “A number of these things we are trialling at the moment, and we’re just trying to figure out with ourselves and with our partners what the best solution is to go forward with.”

A successful Digital Strategy we are always optimising our deliverables with a detailed business plan. You should be looking at all the required actions, responsibilities, governance models, performance metrics, reviews and progress reports against agreed outcomes to demonstrate business value from your ICT investments.

Internal ‘Lab288’ tackles real-time replenishment.

Source: Coles trains machine vision to identify out-of-stock items – Cloud – iTnews

ACCC blames premature TPG merger rejection reveal on unpatched CMS

With our digital facing systems more accessible than ever before and requiring more support, the little things are sometimes overlooked.

“The…

How Legal Should Prepare for Crises in the Digital Era

Legal and compliance within your organisation are required to be as agile as your digital transformation strategy. Providing insights into what is important and the impacts on the business gives Legal the ability to be prepared.

Crisis management is exacerbated by digital disruption and the age of social media. General counsel should prepare their organizations now.

Source: How Legal Should Prepare for Crises in the Digital Era – Smarter With Gartner

Melbourne Uni Adopts Robotic Process Automation

The adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is becoming more common with the example of Melbourne University looking at enriching…

Rethinking disaster recovery for the cloud | CIO

The importance for organisations to ensure they have appropriate recovery provisions for ICT services that are aligned to your Business Continuity Plan is critical. You need to have a plan and testing regime to deal with all levels of disruption.

With the adoption of Cloud Services on the rise, the thought for how this impacts your Disaster Recovery Plan is even more important today.

Strategic Directions will review, update, test and maintain the Business Continuity Plans (BCP), IT Disaster Recovery Plan (ITDRP) and Crisis Management Plan for your Organisation.

DR practices that were designed for in-house computing are out of sync with the cloud world. If you haven’t already revised your DR plan for cloud computing, now’s the time.

Source: Rethinking disaster recovery for the cloud | CIO

How to Discover the Real Business Value of IT

Providing the tools and strategic direction to clearly show you the real value of your IT is a cleaver and relevant ICT Strategy. This ensures your IT spend delivers results, reviewing investment, efficiency, functional performance and resource deployment to aligned with corporate objectives.

Information technology collects lots of performance metrics, but most IT leaders struggle to tell business stakeholders a meaningful story about the business value of IT.

Source: Business Value of IT