At CIO Edge, ADAPT’s Senior Analyst, Peter Hind, moderated a discussion between Johnson & Johnson Medical, McKinsey, Westpac and AMP technology leaders.

The leaders discussed how to lead modernisation and how to quantify value. Modernisation represents much more than technology and a meaningful change in mindsets, people, and culture.

For IT leaders to drive change, they are often learning business acumen. But there is also value in teaching the business to become digitally literate. This will foster empowered contributors to innovation across the organisation.

Value is more than dollars, and affects customers and ecosystem partners. CIOs must empower staff to align their own purpose with the organisational mission

You can watch the full panel debate on Tech Leaders Debate Why Modernisation Represents More than Technology on the ADAPT Research and Advisory platform.

Contributors
Abdullah Khan Director, Group Technology at AMP
Abdullah Khan is a dynamic technology leader, passionate about making the complex simple and the simple compelling through driving the adoption and... More

Abdullah Khan is a dynamic technology leader, passionate about making the complex simple and the simple compelling through driving the adoption and implementation of new ways of working and digital transformations.

With over 14 years’ experience in leading large technology and cloud transformation programs, Abdullah is adept at turbo-charging large organisation’s digitalisation agenda.

His approach to maximise sustainable business value and deliver a competitive edge, centres on approaches such as scaled agile, customer centred design, DevOps, hyper automation, shift left and servant leadership practices. Through these approaches, Abdullah has reduced lead and cycle time by 500%, cost reduction by 70% and created pipelines of customer defined offerings.

Abdullah attributes success to attracting and building high performing teams, a strong engineering capability, and establishing commercially sound, strong partner ecosystems to drive progressive change.

Abdullah holds a bachelor’s degree in IT from Monash University and an MBA from Macquarie University.

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Eleanor Bensley Partner at McKinsey
Eleanor Bensley is a partner in McKinsey’s banking practice, where she has also been the Chief Innovation Officer. She re-joined the consultancy... More

Eleanor Bensley is a partner in McKinsey’s banking practice, where she has also been the Chief Innovation Officer. She re-joined the consultancy at the start of 2019 from Commonwealth Bank, where she was CEO adviser and head of projects, retail sales and service.

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Angela Coble Managing Director and Client Group Technology Officer at Accenture Australia
A contagious optimist, energiser and entrepreneur, welcomed into the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2023 for service to business, Angela thrive’s helping... More

A contagious optimist, energiser and entrepreneur, welcomed into the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2023 for service to business, Angela thrive’s helping others as a co-founder and executive director, author, holder of registered IP and copyright, and partnering with exceptional leaders as a Managing Director within Accenture. Enabling people and business to grow and succeed is her legacy.

As a co-founder of Leadonera Pty Ltd and the registered IP of Leadonera®, Angela created new concepts, frameworks and identified unique career pathways that combine to accelerate our next generation of leaders whilst remaining focused on her gender diversity purpose to advance and retain more women in leadership.

As a former MNC Executive CIO & Executive Director Business Transformation, Angela has deep commercial experience in Strategy, Governance, Organisational Design and Risk coupled with the pace of being a Technology Executive balancing the P&L with growth, innovation and experimentation.

As a Managing Director with Accenture, leverages her vast experience in technology, leadership and diversity to partner with c-Suite and Board’s to support organisations to accelerate their digital ambition and reimagine their business models for sustainable growth. Supporting not-for-profits, public and listed companies (ASX100), Angela navigate’s the balance of short-term requirements and long-term goals to accelerate the digital journey to unlock value, deliver improved employee and customer experiences and reimagine organisations for better outcomes.

A lifelong learner, in 2023 submitted her thesis for the award of Doctorate by Research (UniSQ) for an industry-first empirical study to examine the Technology Leadership Context in Australia with findings applied to improving gender diversity in executive teams. Angela’s research answers the matter of competency and capability complement and the model of the future technology leader, discovering a new pathway for the Australian Technology Executive. Leaning into academia, Angela expanded her intellectual curiosity in Leadership & Digital Transformation, studying at international faculties with MIT and Oxford.

Fulfilling her passion for Women in Leadership, Angela support events, charities, and programs to continue to advance the next generation of leaders. An advocate for advancing leaders, mentoring, coaching talent, and delivering inclusive programs, Angela volunteers her time aligned to purpose as a speaker, regularly contribute to publications, and enjoy’s audiobooks and walking for wellbeing.

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Peter Hind Principal Research Analyst at ADAPT
Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. ​ His primary areas of interest... More

Peter Hind has spent the last 25 years as an analyst and commentator on the ICT industry. ​

His primary areas of interest are the potential of technology to transform the way organisations operate, the change management obstacles executives encounter in realising this potential, as well as the tactics and techniques leaders have deployed to overcome these difficulties.​

Peter now takes on multiple roles within ADAPT including the moderation of private events and roundtables, interviewing business executives about the strategies they are pursuing and assisting with the structuring of delegate surveys.​

He also interrogates and analyses ADAPT’s treasure trove of end-user and C-suite data.​

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