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• Ian McCrae on teaching digital tech: 'Why not deliver content via broadband?'

  Orion Health’s CEO says our ICT sector wants to help deliver in secondary schools, but the Ministry of Education needs to join the party.

• Agile security in the cloud: Lessons from Xero

  Previously, security was about having gates, but under the agile method we use guardrails so our developers stay on the road, rather than having to stop at a gate, writes Aaron McKeown of Xero.

• CIO upfront: Digital transformation: What you need in a leader – personality over job title

  This digital leadership position is critical in bringing those that are less digitally inclined along for the journey, writes Peter Yates of Spark Ventures.

• State of the CIO 2016: Leading through continuous transformation

  New Zealand CIOs take on strategic, operational and futurist roles – often at the same time - as organisations evolve into digital businesses. Our exclusive 2016 State of the CIO research considers the demands of the CIO role in this current environment.
  
  

• ​MYOB's IT challenge to NZ's top students

  ‘Tech companies following lean and agile methodologies will often bring a solution to market in a short timeframe. This challenge gives the students a taste of what it will be like in the businesses they will work for following their graduation.’

• Creating Clever Kash

  ASB chief architect James Bergin talks about a project that shows how the bank is thinking and acting like a tech company that is trusted and licensed to operate in financial services.

• Skyrocketing demand for cloud skills

  But enterprises will have to pay more for certain skill sets as they continue to shift to SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, reports Potentia.

• ​Getting real about bimodal

  David Spaziani of Gartner explains how IT organisations can adopt the two distinct approaches to meet simultaneous enterprise demand for agility and flexibility; with efficient and predictable systems.

• If the All Blacks were an IT team

  Sports provides great analogies for preparing the IT team and the wider organisation for the competitive, fast-paced digital era, says Westpac CIO Dawie Oivier.

• The relentless pursuit of sameness

  You are unlikely to create greatness simply by replicating others. It's the business equivalent of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.

• The 2016 CIO100 report: Full speed ahead

  CIOs from New Zealand's top ICT using organisations talk about driving digital transformation.

• Glen Willoughby: Today’s CIOs wield revolutionary tools

  And they must use these to deliver enduring value to the organisation, says Downer’s general manager of IT

• ​Digital transformation isn’t just about employing a CDO

  …Or changing job titles to include ‘digital’

• ​IT leaders need a more agile approach to support marketing: Gartner

  ‘The pace at which IT delivers new solutions, or supports existing implementations, must be the same at which its partners in marketing operate,’ says Kimberly Collins, research vice president at Gartner.

• Westpac CIO Dawie Olivier on 'The killer app for today’s ICT teams'

  “Unless we build organisations that are able to adapt to and to use whatever technology comes along we are actually wasting our time."