Professional Networking Events

ISACA session: 12 noon

Agile Governance: The impact of new ways of working and managing

Change is now the permanent state, not an event. There is never any stable static state. Everything is constantly evolving, driven by a massive thinking+science+technology engine. Often, as a result, society itself is changing; new values, new ways of thinking and acting. This presents significant risk for all organisations. In a changing world, doing the same thing is not going to be a winning strategy. What got you here won't get you there. We must work in new ways. To change the work, we must change how we manage, how we think about management. These are new ways of managing which are changing business, government, and not-for-profit organisations, big and small: Enterprise Agile, Open Leadership, Servant Manager, Transformational Leadership, Beyond Budgeting, Safety Culture, and so on. The ways of working and managing cannot change until the ways they are governed change, to make the new ways acceptable, directed, and valued.

We are not experts on new ways of governance. We have worked in Enterprise Agile advancement of large clients in Vietnam, and DevOps advancement of government agencies here in New Zealand. We will give you our thoughts and we hope to stimulate a discussion on the implications for governance and audit, of what is the biggest shift in management in a lifetime.

Rob England B.Sc., CITP, is an independent management consultant, trainer, and commentator based in Wellington. He usually works with his partner, Dr Cherry Vu. Together as a team, they brand themselves as Teal Unicorn, advancing organisations to New Ways Of Working And Managing.

Rob is an internationally-recognised thought leader in DevOps and IT Service Management and a published author of seven books and many articles. He is best known for his controversial blog and alter-ego, the IT Skeptic. Rob is an acknowledged contributor to The DevOps Handbook, and to ITIL (2011 Service Strategy book), and a lead author of VeriSM. Rob was awarded the inaugural New Zealand IT Service Management Champion award for 2010 by itSMFnz, and made a Life Member in 2017.

Dr. Cherry Vu is an expert on training leaders; and an experienced consultant to government and business on organisational change, change management, and culture change. She has worked and studied in New Zealand, Germany, and Vietnam. She is the founder of the professional body Business Agility Vietnam. She has helped business and public sector organisations develop their change management capabilities. Cherry applies the most practical skills and instruments to optimise their change outcomes with a goal of arming leaders, practitioners, and change agents.

Light refreshments will be served at approximately 12.45pm, followed by the IIA NZ session.

IIA NZ Topic: Getting better at doing things right - Insights from the world of legal compliance

Insights and learnings from helping over 120 Crown and private sector organisations with their legal compliance, and interacting with businesses 'going it alone' on legal compliance.

Emerging issues and good practices around compliance processes and outcomes, and observations about not-so-good, to the down-right 'ugly' practices and processes out there.

Developing a new way of talking about 'compliance' to encourage better buy-in and mandate more robustness, while making it easier for everyone to do well.

Presenter: David Woodnorth, Founder & Leader, ComplyWith NZ Ltd

David co-founded ComplyWith after a 'first career' as a lawyer specialising in civil litigation, then as a senior in-house legal manager. He is leading ComplyWith on a mission to help people in business do things right.

We believe that people usually want to do the right thing - however when all things 'compliance' are tied up on Word manuals and Excel spreadsheets its simply too hard. By creating online tools that make it easy to do what's required, it will get done properly. This enables truly robust and effective systems and processes to be implemented, and then we see the right outcomes happening.

"By humanising the law, we are empowering people to know what they need to know, so they can do things right. There's also the challenge of helping governance and senior management in New Zealand show better leadership on the importance of doing things right."