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• Forrester: Why 2019 is the year of digital and CIO reckoning

  One in four CIOs will expand their remit in 2019 and become true owners of digital business and technology-led innovation, leaving the rest relegated to trusted IT operators.

• 7 disruptions CIOs may not see coming: Gartner

  CIOs may not be prepared for seven digital disruptions, including quantum computing, swam technology and nanotechnology, according to Gartner’s latest research.

• Fear not the startup, but the cashed-up company behaving like one

  Old-world businesses are reinventing themselves, says technology futurist Chris Riddell.

• In pictures: Executive Connections Sydney tackles customer-led transformation

  More than 130 marketing and technology leaders joined ​CMO and CIO magazines and ADMA for the 2018 Executive Connections breakfast event in Sydney to discuss the shift from digital to customer-led transformation. here are pictorial highlights from the session.

• The earth is flat: Digital tipping points from Melbourne to Moscow

  Real disruption is alive and thriving … in the vaults of the Kremlin.

• New era, new buzzphrase: We're headed for 'Digital Cohesion'

  ​Remember ‘Digital Disruption’? Well we’re over it now, says Juniper Networks who have ushered in a new era they call ‘Digital Cohesion’.

• Ahmed Fahour quits Australia Post

  Australia Post CEO, Ahmed Fahour, has suddenly quit his position after seven years in the top job​ amidst intense criticism over his $5.6 million salary, even from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

• Nina Du Thaler exits Queensland Urban Utilities to join Uniting Care QLD

  Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) CIO, Nina Du Thaler, is leaving the water utilities industry after four years and accepted a new role as group executive, digital and technology at Uniting Care QLD.

• Digital technologies to boost government accountability: Productivity Commission

  ​Digital technologies offer governments scope to improve service delivery, including better assessment of risk in regulatory activities, integration of human services, and infrastructure management, according to new findings from a Productivity Commission research paper.

• Fintech specialists say 'NextGen banking' may replace Big Four

  Banks of the future will be technology companies with a banking licence and traditional banking may give way to more digitally advanced methods and platforms, say fintech specialists.

• ​New co-creation economy empowers customers to up-sell themselves

  Speaking at the 2016 Connect Expo event in Melbourne, Intel’s managing director for A/NZ, Kate Burleigh, described how McDonald's supports co-creation with technology as part of its move toward ‘digital convergence’.

• How Norman Disney & Young's Frank Italia stays one step ahead of disruption

  Norman Disney & Young’s (NDY) IT director, Frank Italia, has witnessed some incredible digital transformation in the property sector, leading the firm through generations of new design technologies, right into the groundbreaking building information modelling (BIM) techniques.

• ​Just one in five Aussie SMBs are digitally engaged

  A new report has found fewer than one quarter of Australian businesses (22 per cent) are ‘digitally engaged’ based on set criteria to determine how firms use technology to stay competitive.
  

• How to harness digital-led innovation

  
  Innovation is happening across every organisation, continuously. But it’s the ability to harness and scale those ideas, as well as disrupt traditional power hierarchies and corporate structures, that will make or break how established organisations compete in a digitised, customer-centric world.

• C-suite execs nervous about outsiders stealing their business: study

  Airbnb, Uber and the like are walking right up to traditional businesses and giving them a big slap in the face, a wake up call that their biggest competitors are from outside their industry. This is what IBM’s latest Global C-suite Study found is making many CxOs nervous.