Leadership stories

Findings reveal that individuals referred to as Progressive CIOs take a specific approach to enterprise finance transformation and behave differently than their peers with regard to mindset, collaboration and technology strategy.>>

The roles will also provide locally-based support for partners, expanding the footprint of ConnectWise significantly across Australia and New Zealand.>>

Johnathan Eele joins with more than 20 years’ communications industry experience in New Zealand and overseas, where he has held leadership roles spanning the wholesale, enterprise, government and consumer sectors.>>

“Kerry has deep expertise creating value for customers by helping them optimise their performance through artificial intelligence and automation and has gained critical local knowledge in this region.">>

“Now is the time to consider the digital savviness of your top management teams and ask yourself what you can do to bolster it for your company’s future success.”>>

Adobe concludes that plenty of respondents are creative leaders (60%), but only a few achieved the title of ‘visionary’ (13%).>>

Focusing on the role of HR leaders within the organisation, Gartner has highlighted five future of work decisions that must be made in 2021 if businesses want to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.>>

"In a year of great transformation, our customers, partners and teams have demonstrated incredible resilience and passion, it is a real honour to be given this opportunity to lead APJ in this crucial but exciting time.">>

“With more organisations operating under remote work conditions, the attack surface has broadened, making security at scale a critical concern. This is a call to action for executives to prioritise alleviating the stress.">>

"During the COVID-19 lockdown period, having a good leader is beneficial for your wellbeing; it is ‘extra beneficial’ if that leader is a woman.">>

Only 12% of respondents strongly agree their own business leaders have the right mindsets to lead them forward, and only 9% agree that their organisation has the skills at the top to thrive in the digital economy.>>

Major change at the massive distributor, with long time managing director moving on.>>

The AI Forum of New Zealand has appointed three local business women who are charged with leading New Zealand’s use of AI into 2020 and beyond.>>

According to the report, 85% of respondents believe that a ‘workplace culture that encourages respect for diversity of opinion’ is the most positive and impactful employer action to retain top talent.>>

Maner will be responsible for leading Nutanix’s global business development and corporate development efforts, with a focus on strategic partnerships, alliances, system integrators, and service providers.>>

Family businesses should look to next generation (nextgen) leaders if their company is to thrive in the digital age, but that can only happen with greater support and trust by those currently in charge.>>

“What we are hearing is that women want to develop the capabilities that will support them to be better leaders and add value to their organisations.">>

Allianz is doing its bit to create a strong company culture – by creating a new human resources (HR) programme that allows senior executives to shadow their colleagues.>>

Responsible practices in artificial intelligence (AI) starts with how each individual organisation plans to strategise, design, develop, and deploy the technology. >>

CompTIA’s latest ANZ Channel Community meeting in Sydney focused on the values and challenges of leadership in business.>>

While there are plenty of leadership programmes available for women, those programmes don’t generally work on their own.>>

Discussion with Caroline Sapriel, founder and Managing Partner of CS&A International, who is a keynote speaker at the 2018 ASIAL Security Conference.>>

Olaf Pietschner fills the position of head of Capgemini in Australia and New Zealand, effective immediately.>>

“We are now having to track 160 different vendors and service providers in order to really understand the market.”>>