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Who is driving the digital bus?
This webinar is part of our Accidental IT Leaders webinar series. To join future webinars sign up at lumenas.com/webinar or email us at hello@lumenas.com Share your details to access the webinar In this session we covered: How someone is already making your technology decisions — the question is whether it’s you, your workforce, or your…
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The Accidental IT Leader’s Glossary
A plain English guide to the words people use when they talk to you about technology. Most Accidental IT Leaders don’t have a technology degree and the jargon in IT can be overwhelming. We’ve heard from our community that one of the most helpful resources would be a glossary to help you clearly understand the…
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Submission to the Inquiry into cyber security for small to medium sized businesses and organisations
Australian small and medium businesses (SMBs) are widely seen as more vulnerable to cyber security incidents and crime. To better understand the issue and find directions for new solutions, the Australian House of Representatives voted to create a Select Committee on Cyber Security for Small to Medium Sized Businesses and Organisations. The Chair of this…
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How MS Australia uses Lumenas
“Continuously strengthening our governance and operations helps MS Australia build resilience, protect our mission and maintain the trust of our members and the wider MS community.” – Sonya Blondinau, Head of Corporate Services and Company Secretary, MS Australia How MS Australia used Lumenas to strengthen technology governance “Technology supports our day-to-day work in research and…
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Working with an IT Provider
For many businesses, especially those under 200 staff, your IT provider is one of your most critical vendors. They hold the keys to all of your data, and when IT stops, the business stops. Despite that, most businesses I speak to take a very light touch to managing this relationship. Often the job sits with…
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Why are you doing the office housework?
I once eagerly joined a work-extra-curricular group that used data analysis to support greater diversity and inclusion. I thought this would be a great opportunity to make something more constructive than cupcakes for International Womens’ Day and make the workplace more inclusive for lots of people. I did not anticipate this would lead to me…
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Ice Cream Shop or Military Base?
Cyber security can often feel like a game of absolutes — either we’re secure or we aren’t. But it’s more complicated than that. The answer is almost always that we’re somewhere in between. Cyber risk, like all other risk, exists on a spectrum. We have to decide how much risk we can tolerate, then apply…
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Moving beyond digital transformation
Over the course of decades, we’ve come to expect digital transformation to be a big event. These transformations are typically incredibly slow and expensive and the failure rate is astronomical. The impact on employees is serious, with each new wave of major changes adding to change fatigue, and sometimes mistrust if the transformation doesn’t deliver…
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Stories from the basement: how fictional IT leaders shape our perception of IT leadership
Early in building Lumenas, we found ourselves often reading job advertisements for IT Managers. Not because we were hiring, but because job ads are a frank assessment of what an organisation thinks a role involves. This helps us better understand the misunderstanding of IT roles, and how persistent these issues may be, which helps us…
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The Accidental IT Leader
Becoming an ‘accidental IT leader’ presents a significant opportunity. Many business leaders become technology leaders without ever applying for the job. You might start in operations, finance, administration, risk, or another business function. Over time, technology decisions begin to drift your way. You become the person who talks to the MSP, reviews software renewals, helps…
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The one thing economists love and IT hates
The IT department has often been my first stop in any new job. This is because I often do pretty niche jobs, which means I need a different tech setup to most of the organisation. This has variously delighted and haunted my IT colleagues. In one job, I requested different permissions on my laptop so…
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Leading Digital – A Digital Mindset
A digital mindset Today we’re talking about mindset. You’re already across what an enormous impact the mindset of a leader has on the team – I’m sure you can think of the good, the bad and the ugly that you’ve seen in the past! So what kind of mindset should we bring to digital leadership?…
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