Delivering real Value of your IT investments can be tricky if you do not understand or measure the real value it has for your organisation. The sole focus of the Strategic Directions is to help Clients align their ICT Strategies with the business, improve operational
@Gartner Want to learn more about the challenges we are faced with the convergence of our OT / IoT environments. Start with our 100 Day Plan. Start Today Key Challenges The converging of IT and OT systems, combined with the increased use of IoT in
It is nice to look at success stories as it seems we are all reading about what we should be doing in the wake of this most significant disruption we have seen. I will start with huge thumbs up to all the companies that have
What to include in your IT Transformation! Most arguments for change in the corporate world are intellectual. There’s often talk of the increasing pace of change, the threat of disruption, the need to be “one enterprise” and the changing expectations of customers. All of these
Transformation is the key to enterprise success. But for organizations pressed for the budget to perform necessary replacements and upgrades, Big Bang transformation initiatives are out of reach. Define your 100 Day Plan and achieve more with less. Define your Journey Here >> Transformation is
If “necessity is the mother of invention,” coronavirus (COVID-19) forced many around the world to rethink our daily lives from work to school to entertainment. In response to travel bans, school closures, and recommendations to not gather in large groups and keep our distance from
Is the quickest and most economically journey always the best?
Is the quickest and most economically journey always the best?
#TheReset #RoadTrip #BuyLocal Departing from our first destination today, thank you to the beautiful Richmond Valley Region. Richmond Valley Council is a local government area on the Northern Rivers region of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. The traditional custodians of the land of the Casino
Buy Australian, keep your hard-earned money circulating here. So easy to say but often so hard to do. As an Ex CIO of Local Government, I know how hard it is to select and continues to use Australian goods and services from Australian owned company’s.
AGL to stick almost everything in the cloud by 2022. Australian electricity and gas retailer, AGL, plans to move almost all of its computing infrastructure to the public cloud by 2022. Source: AGL to stick almost everything in the cloud by 2022 | CIO
Covid-19 has changed the way we all work, communicate and impact the wider world we all know. We start to settle into a new way of working in a world that has been turned temporarily upside down we all search for new or enhanced ICT
Shifting your business or operations into top gear and unlocking the potential of digital technology requires change managed by right sized methodologies and frameworks. The digital journey may be rife with timelines and launch dates, but the overall goal is much loftier: To develop an organization that is
Take the implications for Disaster Recovery and Business continuity when our Hybrid IT is sometimes managed by multiple tier vendors, which means a service you are subscribing to relies on another vendor that you do not have a contract or relationship with.
Gartner has made a clear prediction that the rise of cloud computing, traditional enterprise data centres are adapting and evolving.
What the infrastructure and operations leaders decide on what they will do about on-premises infrastructure architectures will shape the next few years.
Your security resilience is the result of a robust and objective analysis of all ICT matters. Strategic Directions is strictly vendor-independent and provide ICT Strategic Planning that aligns your corporate objectives and your security resilience.
Only three per cent of local governments consider themselves to have fully transformed customer experience through ICT, a survey has found.
Suncorp’s technology troubles have snowballed after interim chief executive Steve Johnston refused to give a go-live date for its frozen $300 million Oracle core banking system replacement, admitting the institution was now at the mercy of other banks making it work first.
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
The adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is becoming more common with the example of Melbourne University looking at enriching their customer experiences (CX) and improving employee experience (EX) through its adoption this year.
Providing specialist data centre knowledge and support to the University for a number of years we are a proud trusted partner of the University.
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
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
Your ICT Strategy provides your blueprint for allocation of resources and your expected business outcomes, both now and into the future.
We will provide you with a clear understanding of your major exposures in relation to cost, equipment and service providers, identify quick wins and assist in developing a robust framework for ongoing management.
The only predictable aspect of data center technology is its unpredictability. Change is often rapid, evolutionary and disruptive. For IT and data center professionals, staying ahead of the curve could easily mean the difference between
an organization’s success or failure. And for nearly four decades, AFCOM has stressed to its members the importance of remaining proactive and always moving forward. To accomplish that, we must be visionaries, capable of anticipating near- and long-term changes and acting to ensure data centers and businesses they support are prepared.
Maintaining our vendor independence, to ensure that we can focus on delivering the best outcome for our customers.
