ISS Seminar - Leading IT in the Era of Disruption

Digital disruption and technologies permeate across all functions in all organisations. It is relentlessly changing business models and structures across several industry domains. It brings threats as well as opportunities. Companies and governments acknowledge that they need to embrace digitalisation whole‐heartedly to be on the road to sustainable competitive advantage and differentiation.

IT leaders, managers and professionals need to be well‐prepared to confront these threats, exploit the opportunities and challenge the status quo so that businesses and Singapore can stay competitive.

There has been much debate on who should drive digital leadership. Should digital leadership be driven from the CEO’s office, the business, a newly‐appointed Chief Digital Officer or should it be a natural extension of the job of the Chief Information Office (CIO) and his IT organisation? Enterprise IT should encapsulate digitalisation!

Do CIOs and IT leaders need to adopt a new mindset and a new form of leadership to succeed? How can we enhance our IT organisation’s capabilities and capacity to anticipate, respond to and capitalise on the disruptive forces as they sweep across our landscape. Are there new tools and approaches available to CIOs and IT leaders as they drive digital transformation? Is there a proven recipe for success?

Speakers at this seminar will address the challenges and questions. Attend the seminar to learn the realities and strategies for success from speakers who are immersed in driving and enabling digital transformation for businesses and governments.

Key Takeaways

Find out how you can enhance your IT organisation’s capabilities and capacity to anticipate, respond and capitalize on disruption. Learn the realities and strategies that work for successful business and digital transformation.

Enquiries

Please email issmarketing@nus.edu.sg

CIOs, IT leaders, business leaders driving IT and digital initiatives, IT managers and professionals and all with a keen interest in the impact of disruption on IT leadership and the IT organization.

11 March 2016, Friday
8.15am – 11.10am
Institute of Systems Science
25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119615

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Seminar Agenda

8:15 am	Registration & Networking Breakfast
9:00 am	Welcome Address Lim Hooi Ling Chief, Master of Technology in IT Leadership Programmes, NUS-ISS
9:05 am	The Impact of Disruption on Leadership Wong Su-Yen Chief Executive Officer Human Capital Leadership Institute Disruption and digitalisation has tremendous implications on leadership. There is an urgency for change by individuals and organisations. Leaders, including IT leaders, need to abandon old mindsets. They need to rethink, rebuild skills and capabilities and retool their approach to exploit and explore opportunities that disruption and digital transformation brings forth. Su-Yen will present the what (implications), why (urgency) and how (action) for the consideration of leaders in the audience.
9:35 am	Confronting Digital Transformation - A CIO Shares Ang Mui Kim Director/Chief Information Officer, Singapore Ministry of Manpower and Cluster Director (Manpower/Trade & Industry), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore A key role of the CIO is to “keep the lights on” to support the business to run smoothly and grow. How easy and how difficult is this? When it comes to digital and business transformation, can the CIO afford to sit back and take the lead from the business? How important is collaboration and engagement with peers and partners in the eco‐system to the achievement of business outcomes? Hear from Mui Kim the strategies that she adopts to drive digital transformation for the business.
10:05 am	Enabling the Digital Journey Ng Wee Wei Managing Director Health and Public Service, ASEAN, Accenture Many organisations have embarked on their digital transformation journey. Has it been smooth sailing? Have they encountered any challenges or roadblocks? Many have also heavily invested in systems and infrastructure. Accenture works with companies to develop and deploy technology solutions under challenging conditions. It is likely that some are more successful than others. Wee Wei will present a roadmap and the critical success factors for CIOs who are embarking on the digital journey. She will also be sharing the strategies for successful planning, development and deployment of technology solutions.
10:40 am	Building an Agile IT Organisation Pete Deemer CEO, GoodAgile IT organisations need to be agile and adaptable in a landscape that faces demanding customers and regular technological disruptions. Each new wave of technological disruption brings forth new requirements and demands quick response by the IT organisation. How does the CIO trade‐off between agility and speed, and developing reliable and resilient systems? How does the IT leader prepare his IT organisation and people to withstand disruption? Pete will share how the IT organisation can improve its capability and capacity to anticipate, respond to and capitalise on the disruptive forces as they sweep across our landscape.
11:10 am	Thank you & Goodbye

Speaker's Bio

Ms Wong Su-Yen Chief Executive Officer
Human Capital Leadership Institute

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Ms Wong Su-Yen Chief Executive Officer
Human Capital Leadership Institute

Ms Wong Su-Yen is Chief Executive Officer of the Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI), an organisation focused on developing global leaders with a strong understanding of leading in Asia, as well as to build Asian leaders with the ability to lead on the global stage.

She brings over 20 years of experience in business strategy, organisation transformation, human capital and leadership development, and is a regular guest lecturer at universities in Singapore and the US. She is Chairman of the Board of Nera Telecommunications, as well as an Independent Director at MediaCorp and NTUC First Campus.

Su-Yen is an active member of the Singapore Institute of Directors, Women Corporate Directors, and the Young Presidents’ Organization. She holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) in music and computer science from Linfield College and an M.B.A from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ang Mui Kim Director/Chief Information Officer, Singapore Ministry of Manpower and Cluster Director (Manpower/Trade & Industry), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore View Biography

Ang Mui Kim Director/Chief Information Officer,
Singapore Ministry of Manpower and Cluster Director
(Manpower/Trade & Industry),
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Ang Mui Kim is the Cluster Director at IDA Government CIO Office and the CIO of Ministry of Manpower. At IDA, she mentors the CIO teams at 6 government agencies and leads the Capability Development Programme for the Application Services Managers and Functional Analysts at IDA. At MOM, she led many transformational initiatives, modernised several large scale mission critical IT systems, and championed the Transformation of MOM Digital Services and adoption of Agile Development. Under her leadership, MOM IT had received several local and regional awards including CIO100 Top 5 Winner Awards.

Prior to joining public sector in 2009, she was the Group General Manager at NCS with profit & loss and delivery responsibilities in Singapore and in the region. At NCS, she championed new businesses, achieved consistent profitable growth in Singapore and overseas market, and set up new offices and delivery centres in Australia, China and Malaysia for the company.

Mui Kim is the Vice President of Executive Council of IT Management Association (ITMA) and a fellow of Singapore Computer Society and chairs its Board of Assessor for COMIT.

Ng Wee Wei Managing Director Health and Public Service, ASEAN, Accenture

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Ng Wee Wei Managing Director Health and Public Service, ASEAN, Accenture

Ng Wee Wei is currently the Managing Director with responsibility for Accenture's Health and Public Service business in ASEAN. She also leads the Defence and Public Safety practice across Asia Pacific in Accenture. Wee Wei joined Accenture in 1995. She spent the majority of her career working with government and government linked companies. Her projects include OneService@SG system, e‐HR system for the Ministry of Defence, School Cockpit for the Ministry of Education, New Financial Systems for whole of government in Singapore and corporatization of the Public Utilities Board.

She has authored several white papers and news articles on a range of topics from Delivering Public Service Value to the opportunities presented by the Digital Disruption across several domains, including Education/Employment as well as Public Safety.

Wee Wei is currently part of Accenture’s CEO Advisory Forum, a team of 100 global leaders, meeting and advising Accenture’s CEO on a regular basis. Outside of Accenture, Wee Wei has served as the Honorary Secretary of the IT Management Association, a Singapore‐based association of IT leaders, and is currently sitting on the board of the Institute of Systems Science (ISS).

Pete Deemer CEO, GoodAgile

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Pete Deemer CEO, GoodAgile

Pete Deemer is the founder and CEO of GoodAgile, which provides management training and consulting to many of the largest software and product companies in Asia. GoodAgile has offices in India, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, and counts among its long‐term clients HP, Cisco, GE, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, and JP Morgan Chase Bank. Deemer is a well‐known figure in the software community globally. Based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Deemer is the lead author of The Scrum Primer, one of the most widely read introductions to Agile software development, and The Distributed Scrum Primer, a guide to distributed and multi‐location Agile software development. Deemer is the 2016 Chairman of the 400,000 member Scrum Alliance, the largest global organization for agile practitioners worldwide.

Deemer was Vice President of Product Development for Yahoo! in the US for a number of years, and prior to that he served as Senior Vice President at CNET Networks. Deemer was the co‐founder of the Webbyaward‐winning website GameSpot, which was acquired by CBS Networks and is now in its 18th year as a top 100 website. Earlier in his career, Deemer was publisher of the best‐selling Let’s Go series of travel guides, produced at Harvard University.

Deemer is an honors graduate of Harvard University and studied Computer Science at Stanford. He has spent a number of years as adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, most recently in the Graduate School of Business, where he received the prestigious Club 6 teaching award. Pete has been a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore since 2010.

Lim Hooi Ling Chief, Master of Technology in IT Leadership Programmes, NUS-ISS View Biography

Lim Hooi Ling Chief, Master of Technology in IT Leadership Programmes, NUS-ISS

Lim Hooi Ling focuses on teaching and consulting in leadership, e‐Government and strategic IT management programmes at ISS. She has over 20 years of experience in IT planning, implementation and promotion at both national and enterprise levels. Prior to joining ISS, Hooi Ling worked in government and commercial organisations heading IT, marketing and corporate development functions. She has also been involved in strategic IT initiatives for government, education, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing and distribution, construction as well as tourism sectors.

Hooi Ling actively contributes to the IT community. She is a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), Singapore’s leading infocomm and digital media society, and serves on the SCS Thought Leadership Committee. She has also served as the Treasurer and Council member of the IT Management Association of Singapore, a Singapore‐based association of IT leaders.

Last updated 17 Feb 2016