EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Welcome to the latest edition of Intelligent CIO magazine for the APAC region . This month ’ s cover features Greg Freeman , Chief Operating Officer at the Commonwealth Grants Commission ( CGC ) in Australia . He tells us how the CGC is accelerating cloud adoption and improving staff flexibility with Zscaler .
There ’ s much more to discover about this story on p61 .
This month ’ s Talking Biz looks at how a new study from Achievers reveals how managers estimate employee engagement , recognition and job satisfaction levels are two to three times higher than they actually are and are unaware of the disconnect .
“ The concept of a centralized office has now morphed into a collaboration space where staff can meet as required , but our office is now really in the cloud ,” he says . “ We now have in place a secure foundation that will support our activities and allow us to continue to provide our services to the Australian Government .”
You can find out more details about the project by turning to p56 .
“ Managers are misreading engagement levels across organizations by some pretty significant multipliers ,” says Matt Seadon , Managing Director APAC at Achievers . “ As a manager , you may think you ’ re doing a good job , but our research is demonstrating that there ’ s a disconnect between what you think and what your employees are feeling .”
For more details , turn to p36 .
Elsewhere , we take a look at how New Zealandbased mortgage company Squirrel streamlines its device management and improves its user experience with Jamf .
“ We had no way of gaining oversight of the entire device fleet ,” said Squirrel CTO , Colin Gardyne . “ We could not see which devices were up-to-date and which needed attention . In many ways , we were flying blind .
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Once again , I ’ d like to wish you a good month ahead and please enjoy the read !
“ We were very impressed with the capabilities of the Jamf software and could see that it would have a significant positive effect on our operations .”
Mark Bowen Editor
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