Why Australia’s Tech Leaders Face Their Biggest Test Yet

ADAPT advisor, David Heacock, says senior tech execs who have risen through the ranks due to their understanding of how their organisations operate, now face a new challenge.

“They have to raise money; they have to convince people to change. They are part of large-scale transformation operations and now the language they speak, and the value sets they need to engage with, have shifted fundamentally,” he says.

Heacock recalls asking a CIO he was coaching to write a memo to a senior stakeholder requesting $100 million to replace systems that were end-of-life. While this reason might resonate with senior architects across his organisation, he says it’s not the only driver.

“We now get into this space where he needed to speak a completely different language of value, and those truths were no longer self-evident.”

ADAPT’s report, ‘The CIO’s Moment of Truth: Why Australia’s Tech Leaders Face Their…