Kevin Drinkwater provides an environment for Mainfreight tech teams to work with other business units on emerging and disruptive technologies such as Internet of Things and machine learning. They also pilot or test these with their global customers.
Tower is well on its way to transforming into a digital challenger brand, says Peter Muggleston, chief operating officer at the insurance firm.
Mark Beder says delivering 5G and New Zealand’s wireless future are the key focus for his team at Spark New Zealand.
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.
Thomas Hyde operates across different levels at Beca, leading a team with a diverse and strategic portfolio and over the past year, influenced the organisation to modify its mission statement.
Rebecca Thomas heads the PwC Asia Pacific CIO Council, and through this, influences the global PwC IT community
“The most important lesson I have learnt so far is to be open-minded in my perspective as a leader,” says Christine Yip, business improvement manager at LSG Sky Chefs NZ.
“It is important to be prepared to positively and continually disrupt ourselves,” says Mark Leadbetter, IT director at House of Travel (HOT).
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.
ANZ is always looking for opportunities to improve and personalise customer experience by providing a more natural and simple interaction, says Craig Bunyan, general manager technology at ANZ New Zealand.
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.”
“We use technology for competitive advantage in a traditional industry sector,” says Brian Northern, group CIO at Fulton Hogan
Our most significant and pervasive ICT initiative over the past year is around our data warehouse and self-service (DW-SSR) reporting, says Delegat CIO Wilson Alley. “This DW-SSR initiative is about analytics, and its intersection with our activities and intentions around the Internet of Things.”
CIO New Zealand launches the inaugural CIO50, recognising the nation's top 50 technology and digital chiefs of 2019, at the Te Papa in Wellington (Photos by Mark Coote)
CIO New Zealand launches the inaugural CIO50, recognising the nation's top 50 technology and digital chiefs of 2019. Business executives gathered at the Hilton in Auckland to celebrate their achievements (Photos by Jason Creaghan)
Figured was built on the idea of connecting farmers and their advisors on a common cloud financial platform to enable better collaboration across each member of the farming team, says its chief technology officer Richard Wyke.
“It’s a thousand apps working together...Think of it as a thousand zebras, running in a herd against the competition, rather than one unicorn,” says Aaron McDonald of Centrality
“Don’t follow a rulebook and instead do what’s right for our organisation and culture,” says Rebecca Chenery of Watercare on leading digital transformation programmes.
We use the BXT (Business - eXperience – Technology) approach for change management, says Pieter Bakker of Frucor Suntory
Spark has made the transition to Agile @scale, an unprecedented business model of this scale in New Zealand. Where previously technology people all sat at desks on one area, now they are spread throughout several different tribes and squads, explains Mark Beder, whose role combines both the CIO and CTO functions at Spark
