Foodstuffs North Island has moved from not even operating retail e-commerce to having online revenues now measured in the hundreds of millions annually, says its chief digital officer Simon Kennedy.
Allan Lightbourne, chief digital officer at Tauranga City Council, got his team members to work with their colleagues from across the organisation, and look at the city’s key challenges that could be alleviated by technology.
“Critical to the success of any CIO is the team around them, and the most important lesson I have learned has been to ensure that I put in place the most effective team possible,” says Mandy Kennedy, chief technology officer of Regional Facilities Auckland.
Richard Kay knows being Chief Digital Officer of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) means any actions he and his team undertake will have impact across international borders.
Nisha Clark, head of technology at Downer, says the data warehouse model they have started will be applied to the company business in Australia. It is the first time in the company’s history an initiative driven out of technology in NZ has been accepted as the Downer Group standard, and will be used to support the ANZ business from New Zealand
“It is important to be prepared to positively and continually disrupt ourselves,” says Mark Leadbetter, IT director at House of Travel (HOT).
“We use technology for competitive advantage in a traditional industry sector,” says Brian Northern, group CIO at Fulton Hogan
Roger Jones holds a C-level role at Auckland Transport (AT), as executive general manager technology, which also involves being the co-executive leadership team lead of the customer and innovation committee.
“Chief digital officer is a new role at Z Energy, and with that came a lot of freedom to set my own path,” says Mandy Simpson.
Through working with partners and using SaaS in the investment management space, Kiwi Wealth CTO Craig Ward says they are able to launch new funds and offerings to the market quickly and at a reduced cost.
Gallagher Group CIO Neville Richardson says IS provides a model of culture change for the rest of the organisation. “We demonstrate the need to go all in with agile.”
“The FrEnd project is an ambitious endeavour to consolidate our web experiences into a single API-backed platform, allowing us to leapfrog years of technical debt,” says Simon Young, chief product and technology officer at Trade Me, on one of his team’s biggest initiative over the past year.
healthAlliance, in partnership with the district health boards, has for the past two years been delivering the the Northern Region Information Systems Strategic Plan, one of the largest digital transformations in New Zealand.
New Zealand Blood Service provides safe, appropriate and timely access to blood and tissue products and related services to meet the health needs of people across the country. Its CIO Tony Carpinter applies a wider lens to describe what they do. “We work in a manufacturing landscape where the inputs are donations, donated by people, and not made to order and where demand can be variable,” he says.
Rebecca Chenery has been leading a cultural and digital transformation of Watercare for nearly three years now.
“Through this digital transformation, the most significant change achieved has been the cultural shift towards agile, collaborative, cross-functional team working across all areas of the business – not just projects delivering digital solutions,” she says.