Richard Webby new tech director at Scentre Group
Scentre Group, which owns and operates Westfield shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand, has nabbed former Walt Disney Company senior tech exec Richard Webby as its new director, technology.
Scentre Group, which owns and operates Westfield shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand, has nabbed former Walt Disney Company senior tech exec Richard Webby as its new director, technology.
Westfield’s director of information technology, Peter Bourke, has quit his post and will leave the shopping centre organisation on December 31.
The concept of providing IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) is a high priority for CIOs as they look to shake off the traditional view of their departments as costly and inefficient parts of their businesses.
Peter Bourke, CIO at Westfield discusses how the retailer has created mobile apps that help internal leasing and shopping centre staff to do their jobs better while improving the experience for customers.
Almost 100 Australian CIOs and IT leaders gathered at Sydney’s Westin Hotel in April for CIO’s inaugural CIO Insights event, sponsored by IBM.
Despite its value, TOGAF can suffer from intrinsic shortcomings in the process by which EAs are selected and trained.
A ‘service’, of course, is an abstraction of the underlying functions, systems and policies used to deliver business outcomes. Service-centred IT therefore reflects the need for clarity and commonality of vision between business executives, the CIO, and the enterprise architects (EAs) and other operational staff charged with actually delivering that vision.