How to Drive Impact at Scale While Speeding Safely
How to Drive Impact at Scale While Speeding Safely
Jun 28, 2023 | 3 minsIn this panel interview facilitated by Peter Hind – Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT, the panellist’s discuss the importance of delivering at a high cadence and constantly learning from the process. They emphasise the need for a collective vision, consensus among team members, and strong governance to achieve transformative change.
Linda Zeelie – Enterprise Digital Transformation Consultant highlights the importance of radical transformation and creating a single digital platform, while also maintaining operational frameworks and iterating to drive success.
Steve Hodgkinson – Chief Digital Officer at VIC Police argues that in public sector organisations, incremental change through high cadence delivery is transformative and necessary due to limited resources and constant challenges. Jamie Rossato – Chief Information Security Officer at Lion Co emphasises the need for good engagement and clear communication between the digital team and the security team to ensure safe and successful transformation.
When working with organisations, there is a keen interest in understanding the horizon one, horizon two, and horizon three strategies for the business according to Finbar O’Hanlon – APAC president of GInI, the Global Innovation Institute (USA). While focusing on incremental innovations to stay relevant amidst market changes and preserve value, it is crucial to simultaneously explore transformative and breakthrough innovations. However, these two types of innovation require distinct processes and teams.
The panellists agree that security and speed must go hand in hand, with security by design being a key component of high-speed delivery. They also touch on the importance of strategic innovation and the role of leadership in driving transformation.
The need for a balanced approach to drive impact at scale while ensuring safety and security is critical.
Key Takeaways:
- High cadence delivery is a core aspect of Agile, and Agile security by design is essential. It is impossible to maintain a fast pace if security measures are hastily patched together or added after production. Security and speed are interconnected.
- It is imperative to actively engage in the process of consistently delivering frequent doses of knowledge and experience. This involves understanding the efficacy and limitations of various technologies. We must actively participate in this fast-paced and continuous delivery process to achieve large-scale success. Prolonged delays will indicate insufficient progress.
- When incorporating agile methodologies into a platform, it is essential to begin with a strategic foundation that facilitates gradual advancements. Using the metaphor of a staircase, it emphasises the importance of not merely failing fast and restarting from scratch, but rather constructing each step and elevation on a sturdy platform. This approach allows for the identification of successful elements and enables progress to the next level. Such a method fosters organisational learning.
Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry.
His primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential, as well as the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.
Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of delegate surveys.
He also interrogates and analyses ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-suite data.
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Linda has over 30 years of local and international experience as a Digital Disruptor and Enterprise Transformation Architect, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Information Officer, Program Director and various specialist levels across a range of industries including defence, finance and government.
Linda combines her extensive experience in technology transformation, program management and executive positions to architect change and lead organisations in enterprise digital transformation by creating progressive end-to-end ecosystems for delivery in the digital economy. She currently heads up digital business transformation programs at MetLife and ESS Super.
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Steve has been the CIO of the Victorian Department of Health & Human Services since 2014. He leads a team of 220 staff and delivers projects totalling $60-80M p.a. He is a member of the Victorian Governement’s Cybersecurity Strategy Group.
In 2018, Steve was ranked #2 in Australia’s CIO50 list, made a Fellow by IPAA Victoria and Overall Champion in the #TechDiversity Awards (for the Rise at DHHS program).
In 2017, Steve was ranked #7 in Australia’s CIO50 list and State & Local Government CIO of the Year in the ITNews Benchmark Awards.
He was previously the global Chief Analyst Public Sector for the UK-based research and advisory services firm Ovum for 8 years.
Before that he was the Director eGovernment Strategy & Policy and Deputy CIO for the Victorian State government in Melbourne.
Steve had earlier founded and sold an e-commerce company, movinghome.com.au, and worked in a range of executive and consulting roles in the government and utility sectors in Europe and Australasia.
He is a graduate of the ANZSOG Executive Fellows program and the AICD Company Directors course, has a doctorate in Management Studies from the University of Oxford and also a first class honours degree in Commerce from the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Specialties: Steve is a strategy professional, with skills in “seeing the wood from the trees” in the technology landscape. He is an excellent communicator who can engage business and IT audiences. He is insightful, and able to “join the dots” in practical and meaningful ways to reveal trends and define practical strategic choices and directions. In executive roles he has a demonstrated track record in leading digital transformation in large scale complex organisations.
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Chief Information Security Officer at Lion Co emphasised the need for good engagement and clear communication between the digital team and the security team to ensure safe and successful transformation.
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Corporate advisor, Strategist, Company Director specializing in Digital transformation (Ai) and Human Capability.
As an Imagineer, I am driven to push the boundaries of what is possible and to help create companies, products and experiences that captivate, inspire, delight and transform the world we live in.
Whether it be a new technology, a creative business strategy, an immersive Audio Visual experience or vision and mission for the future, I am always striving to deliver something transformative, something that delivers breakthrough value.
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