TEST: CIO Summit

Overview

Building a culture of innovation doesn't happen by chance. It requires planning, commitment, and leadership effort. Here are seven tips on how to enhance your group’s innovative spirit and its ability to gain an IT advantage.

What we will cover

• Embrace the unfair expectation of others toward IT The IT & business processes you design, the software you develop, and the services you provide are compared by your user
• Build an innovation pipeline Building an innovative culture is not only people-oriented but process-oriented.
• Recognize the difference between project management and R&D IT projects by nature are very project-management oriented.
• Define and articulate your definition of IT innovation Discover the secrets of employee retention , why good employees leave (and how to prevent it)

Agenda

• 9:00 am State of the Market Address(Grand Ballroom - Main Plenary) Hear how local organisations have sought to implement remote and hybrid work arrangements following the winding down of Covid-19 restrictions, and the return to a ‘new normal’ in Australian business. Discuss the latest in zero trust utilisation, cutting-edge processes for patch implementation across an entire workforce, and how organisation’s are seeking to revamp device use and training policies to better safeguard against the risk of a breach.

Speakers

• Josh Heid · Events Director, Factor

Partners

• Factor · Diamond Sit-Down helps senior thought leaders and executives, stakeholders, advisors and suppliers, interested and passionate about what they do. With years of track record in the business matching services industry we specialise in helping creative business build, change and maintain their profile. With years of enthusiastic and passionate experience of working with fortune 500 companies and over 125000 CXOs, we now are one of the leading providers, enabling government agencies and enterprises advance their operational initiatives through engagements with those facing the same challenges.

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