Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine July 2018 | Page 175

TECHNOLOGY and increase productivity and will go a long way to catch the Sydney product up with the brand .
ASSET LIGHT , DELIVERY STRONG So , SMC has been , and is , one very busy company . Spinning it out as a separate entity signalled a desire to deliver these projects in a different , non-traditional , agile way . Clearly the key to this would be how ready it was to use the best available IT systems , and adopt them as and when they were developed . To deliver this vision SMC recruited a suitably young and enthusiastic CIO . Shaune Rosser has more than 20 years of achievement behind him but this was his first CIO appointment , so it says much that he was named in the 2017 CIO50 Awards as one of Australia ’ s top 50 technology and digital chiefs who are influencing rapid technologydriven change and innovation across their organisations .
Unencumbered by the usual burden of legacy systems , he was not about to acquire any . SMC has no IT assets of its own , and has invested zero dollars making it , which Rosser thinks , is unique globally . It was a green field ( how many CIOs must envy him ) and he
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