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IT leadership and digital transformation
Practical insights for IT leaders navigating digital transformation in Australia.
Honest analysis of technology strategy, IT governance, and digital transformation for CIOs, CTOs, and technology leaders.
What we cover
- IT strategy and governance
- Cloud migration and infrastructure
- Digital transformation roadmaps
- Technology vendor management
What you can expect
- Lessons from real transformation projects
- Practical frameworks for IT leaders
- Honest vendor and platform assessments
- Australian market perspective
Latest posts
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When Your CTO Leaves: A Survival Guide for the First 90 Days
Your CTO just resigned. Or worse, left without warning. Here's a practical guide to navigating the first 90 days without making decisions you'll regret.
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Platform Engineering Is Just Good IT With Better Marketing
Platform engineering has become the hottest trend in enterprise tech, but strip away the buzzwords and you'll find it's what well-run IT teams have been doing for decades.
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Consolidating Your SaaS Stack in 2026: When It Actually Saves Money
Every vendor is pitching platform consolidation. But does reducing your SaaS tool count actually save money, or does it just create new problems? A practical analysis.
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Why Most Enterprise AI POCs Never Make It to Production
The AI proof of concept graveyard is overflowing. Here's what's going wrong and what IT leaders should be doing differently to actually get AI into production.
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AI Governance Frameworks That Actually Work
Practical approaches to AI governance for Australian enterprises. What works, what doesn't, and how to avoid policy theatre.
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Vendor Consolidation: When It Makes Sense (and When It Doesn't)
Every CIO considers vendor consolidation to save money and reduce complexity. But the math doesn't always work out the way you'd expect.
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Technical Debt Quantification: Making the Business Case
How to convince leadership that paying down tech debt is worth the investment
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Identity and Access Management Modernisation
Moving from Active Directory and VPNs to modern zero-trust architecture
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Disaster Recovery Testing: What We Found When We Actually Tried
Our DR plan looked great on paper until we tested it for real
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Hiring in Australian Tech: The Market Has Shifted
What changed in the last two years and what it means for building teams
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Multi-Cloud Reality vs Multi-Cloud Marketing
Why running on AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously is harder than vendors admit
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Contract Negotiation Tips for Enterprise Software
What I learned from buying millions of dollars of software and making expensive mistakes
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The Architecture Review Board: Necessary Evil or Genuine Value
After five years of running one, here's what actually works about architecture governance
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Edge Computing Use Cases That Actually Make Sense
Sorting genuine edge computing needs from vendor marketing
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Phishing Simulations and Security Culture Building
What I learned from three years of testing whether our employees click malicious links