Blog by CIO Studio

Some time back in that happy place where all the good old days go, most Kiwis did not feel the need to lock their doors. According to the insurance industry, over 10% have kept that habit (although that stat predates Covid).

We have been and largely remain a society where trust is widespread - one of...

May’s always an exciting month for festivals in New Zealand!

Comedy fans normally enjoy the International Comedy Festival (sadly, cancelled this year), country music fans converge on Paihia for the annual Country Rock Music Festival, and Bluff fires up with the annual Bluff Oyster festival (nom nom)...

Defining your digital strategy is not as simple as buying a product or service, despite what vendors might tell you! Your digital strategy should be developed after a detailed analysis of your organisation, its business strategy, and what combination of business process and digital tools will help m...

This week I was on RNZ’s Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan talking about the future of NZ’s tech sector, and more specifically, what’s covered off in the Government’s draft Industry Transformation Plan for digital tech.

It’s a pretty exciting piece of work. For the first time, there’s a real focus on t...

Ah – the good old days when Facebook was the only social platform you had to really worry about to keep up with friends and where people just typed out “Danika is… at school.”

It was easy to use, easy to share, relatively drama-free at the get-go and it had the best of intentions. Surely, Zuckerberg...

When we think "automation”, most of us probably visualise something like a robot factory with hordes of machines assembling cars that have replaced manual labour. Undoubtedly, manufacturing was the first wave of automation. Big, labour-intensive activities tend to make a very good business case...

Records are moving digital but what is the difference between the two types, why does it matter, and what's in the future?

Electronic medical record (EMR): patient chart from a single practice including all medical and treatment history. It's exclusive usually to the single office. Electronic health ...

Unfortunately, digital transformation isn’t just about getting into the Cloud. That may be an important part of the journey, but digital transformation is an ongoing process - it’s not a destination where you arrive.

Neither is the Cloud. Getting started in cloud computing is ridiculously easy as yo...

I had a meeting recently where a person used a phrase that I thought was so great I wished I’d thought of it myself.

They said they were looking for a “digital mentor” for their organisation.

Mentoring is an important activity. Most accomplished business leaders will point to a person in their lives...

Late in 2021, we got exciting news from the Beehive that a new border exception would be coming to support our rapidly growing tech sector. We’re still waiting for the first draft of the full process to come from Minister David Clark, but plans are already in motion as to how we will select candidat...