Winners Named in 2016 New Zealand CIO Awards
MEDIA RELEASE
Winners Named in 2016 New Zealand CIO Awards
Auckland, 9 June
2016 – Conferenz and IDC today congratulate the winners
and finalists in the 2016 NZ CIO Summit Awards. The Awards
are made up of six categories, recognising individuals and
teams who have shown leadership, innovation and foresight in
their contribution to ICT and business.
EMERGING
ICT LEADER 2016 – Sponsored by Executive Education,
University of Auckland Business
School
Winner
Mike Jenkins, The
Instillery
Mike has successfully founded a
sustainable and rapidly growing company, built a great
culture and is contributing back to the ICT community. The
Instillery is a 100% Kiwi owned, bimodal ICT business
founded with an obsession for helping ambitious ANZAC
businesses realise their dreams by tapping into the true
value of cloud technologies and business analytics. The
judges were particularly impressed with his passion and
ability to drive disruptive thinking and use it to help
emerging kiwi companies excel on the world
stage.
Finalists
Chris Cunningham – New
Zealand Fire Service
Laura Bell –
SafeStack
ENGAGING YOUTH IN ICT 2016
– Sponsored by Spark
Winner
The Mind
Lab by Unitec
Established in 2013, The Mind Lab
by Unitec is a unique education collaboration between a
public education provider and a specialist education lab
dedicated to enhancing digital literacy capability of young
New Zealanders and the implementation of contemporary
digital learning practices in the teaching
profession.
After winning this award in 2014 the Judges
were looking for something new and exceptional with this
year’s nomination and they were not disappointed.
Since
winning the award in 2014 The Mind Lab have;
• Taken
what was an Auckland-Centric model catering for 6,000
students annually and scaled it rapidly into a national
model that includes four dedicated regional Labs, and four
satellite Labs catering for 40,000 students
annually.
• Launched the Postgraduate Certificate in
Applied Practice (Digital & Collaborative Learning). This
postgraduate programme has generated huge demand from the
teaching community, as school Boards of Trustees, principle
and teachers look to extend their capability in the new
technologies, pedagogies and practices that will enhance
student engagement, achievement and raise awareness of
opportunities that come with a career in ICT.
The judges
were also impressed by the sustainability of the Mind Lab
business model, one that has supported significant growth
and expansion in operations over the past 2 years, and the
strong social/digital marketing capability that has been
developed to support all Mind Lab students and
teachers.
Finalists
Accelerating Aotearoa
Inc.
Gather
Workshops
Planit Software
Testing
Vodafone
BEST
ICT TEAM CULTURE – Sponsored by Integration
Works
WINNER
Westpac
New Zealand Limited
Through a process of
co-creation the entire ICT team at Westpac NZ have defined
and built a new culture based on the principles of,
Ownership, Achievement, Integrity, Collaboration Growth and
Fun.
The Westpac ICT team have moved from traditionally
having a reputation of “being hard to deal with” to
being “a team with increased levels of energy and
enthusiasm” and a team that “has a far sharper focus on
the customer”. At the same time staff engagement levels
with the ICT team have moved from bottom- quartile in
industry comparisons to now being top-quartile.
The
Culture-Led transformation of the ICT team at Westpac has
been significant in both scale and pace of change. The
judges were impressed by the crowd-sourced collaborative
nature of the culture change programme and the way in which
members of the IT team had used their own “real-life”
stories to bring it to life.
As well as delivering
improvements in staff engagement the programme has delivered
an uplift in operating efficiency and delivery of
customer-focussed business
outcomes.
Finalists
ANZ Bank
New Zealand Limited
The
Instillery
MYOB
EXECUTIVE
TEAM OF THE YEAR 2016 – Sponsored by
Clearpoint
This award looks closely at teamwork
and how IT leaders interact with other senior colleagues.
Both finalists demonstrated a high level of excellence in
working towards their goals.
Winner
New
Zealand Transport Agency
The NZ Transport Agency
executive team culture is collaborative and high performing.
The team provided clear and consistent leadership for the
Enterprise Management Content solution, setting an excellent
example themselves by attending training sessions with their
teams and endorsing the right behaviours for the right
outcomes. The new solution means that information is now
being accessible anywhere anytime, improving collaboration
with customers, partners and other agencies. The judges were
impresses by a team of leaders who went the extra mile, took
the people with them, and understood the importance of
leading by example.
Finalist
The Instillery
CIO of the Year 2016 - Sponsored by Technology One
Winston Fong,
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Winston is Vice
President ICT at F&P Healthcare. Winston is a
transformational leader who continually focuses on
innovations across the business’ value stream. He has a
passion to attract, retain and inspire future ICT leaders in
a company that has been doubling in size every 5
years.
Winston is a technology and business evangelist
with over 17 years’ experience. He has led significant
change over the last few years inside a company that has
experienced triple figure growth. The Judges were impressed
by Winston’s sustained leadership over many years of an IT
team that has earned the respect of the business through
successful delivery of significant technology transformation
on a global stage.
Craig Bunyan, ANZ
Bank
Tracy Voice, Ministry for Primary
Industries
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO TECHNOLOGY IN NEW ZEALAND AWARD 2016 – Sponsored by Unisys
Winner
Wayne Norrie
Wayne Norries' 30
years IT industry experience in across a diverse mixture of
companies and geographies has enabled him to distill a
unique perspective on forming and managing successful teams.
In 2002 Wayne and his business partner, Roger Cockayne, led
a management buy-out of Hitachi Data Systems NZ and Revera
was born. Since then Revera has gone from strength to
strength, growing into the major player in the IaaS
landscape it is today, growing from 10 staff in 2002 to 150
by 2015. Wayne is the embodiment of the business philosophy
Wayne's contribution has gone beyond his business
acumen. His business philanthropy is well known in the
business community and Wayne has significantly reinvested
back into the sector across 9 companies which he actively
supports, and mentors many more. He provides much time to
the informal coffee list to provide guidance to the young
entrepreneurs in the tech sector.
Believing the
Technology sector suffered from fragmentation and silos,
Wayne saw a way to further unite the industry through
recognition. He undertook to transform the Hi Tech Awards as
Chair of the Hi Tech Trust. He completely transformed the
goal, and the way in which the Hi Tech Trust went about
achieving it.
Beyond these achievements, the list of
Wayne's contributions to the tech sector is colossal – he
is the current chair of the Hi Tech Awards and he is also
currently a Director of NZTE, and Chairman of Online
Republic, Sportsground, and the Hi Tech Trust. has chaired
Fronde, Team BLM, and Maven, and been a director for Aspeq,
Revera and Hi Growth Trust. Wayne was bestowed a Fellowship
from the Institute of Management, and a Chartered Fellowship
from the Institute of Directors, where he delivers a
‘Culture and Leadership in the Boardroom’ course for
experienced directors.
CIO Awards judge Wendy Bussen
says, “The CIO Awards celebrate excellence in the
industry. We recognise that high performing technology
professionals, no matter where they are in their career
path, have a positive impact on their employer, customers,
suppliers and taxpayers. That’s why it’s so rewarding
celebrating their work. This year we were inspired by the
professionals who are leading projects to help young people
engage in ICT and in the process are creating a pipeline of
future talent”.
Ullrich Loeffler, Managing Director of
IDC Australia and New Zealand, says “The quality and
popularity of entries in the 2016 CIO Awards from
individuals and teams shows their value to participants,
employers and sponsors. We are also fortunate to attract a
highly experienced judging panel representing a range of
perspectives.”
The CIO Summit is New Zealand’s
premier professional development forum for senior ICT
executives. See the full programme at http://www.ciosummit.co.nz/cio-summit
More about the judges can be found at http://www.ciosummit.co.nz/cio-awards/judges-2016
-Ends-