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It's a new month so we've got a new CIO Studio team member to share with you. This time, it's not one of our advisors but rather a key person on our internal team - Marketing Manager Danika Ciullo.

CIO Studio Founder Ray Delany recently wrote an excellent post on how to help people accept digital change. But how can you tell when it’s time to part ways with your current system and provider?

One of my contacts in the health sector told me a couple of years ago that when COVID first hit NZ shores, they were overwhelmed with enquiries. As Maslow said, "If all you have is a hammer you tend to see everything as a nail."

We're kicking off Team Spotlights, where every month we'll profile a member of the CIO Studio team. We will chat about what digital means to them and also ask a few more personal questions to understand the people behind CIO Studio. This month it's Angela Whittle.

We recently wrote an article about helping teams accept change, with some core advice on bringing people along with change projects. This week I thought I’d dive into this again with some thoughts on how we at CIO Studio help organisations bring their staff along on the journey.

The charity dollar is a fragile resource. Most of us will prioritise our basic living needs over charitable donations, and in tough times charitable giving is all too often treated as a discretionary item. Recently, I experienced something which I found interesting.

All kinds of businesses are feeling the difficulty of getting good staff, from the painting firm to the orchardists in Tasman District. In the IT industry, however, the shortage of skilled staff has been such a long-term problem.

We often get asked for recommendations for software products in a wide range of industries, and usually, this takes the form of “what’s the best product for xxx”. From a customer perspective, this is a perfectly reasonable question, but it does present some difficulties that are worth exploring.

For decades, the Port of Tauranga has been the largest and claims to be the most efficient in the country. What’s Ports of Auckland’s most recent claim to fame? Burning at least $65m (of presumably ratepayers’ money) in a failed automation project.

CIO Studio CEO Paul Matthews joins Kathryn to look at why one of Google’s Artificial Intelligence chatbots hit the news this week. What’s really going on and is this the dawn of a new AI era?