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Simon Harris

Simon Harris

Technology leader

Eltham North, Australia

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A technology leader with over 30 years experience developing commercial and product-aligned technology strategy.

I'm people-centric at heart. To me that means enabling people to thrive by making the most of opportunities that benefit the community—be they customers, contributors, staff, or society at large.

I’m passionate about building culture and environments that support people to be and feel safe to experiment, fail, learn, and grow.

Stop talking and start doing: improving decision speed and effectiveness

In a top-down world, it can be difficult to harness collective intelligence and embrace diverse perspectives to innovate and evolve.

Consent based decision making is a light-weight, structured process that empowers people and teams to drive change and get things done, bottom-up.

In this session you will learn:

* What consent-based decision making is and how it differs from consensus.
* How consent-based decision making addresses some of the challenges of consensus and top-down decision making.
* When to use consensus over consent.
* A step-by-step guide to implementing consent-based decision-making in your team and organisation with real-world examples.
* Challenges and lessons from implementing consent-based decision making at the team and the senior-leadership level.

Developing executable technology vision and strategy

Everyone talks about strategy. You have a strategy, whether you've made it explicit, or not. How do you make that strategy tangible, focused, coherent, executable, and connected to the business rather than some esoteric Engineering roadmap?

In this session you will learn:

* The core pillars of Richard Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy.
* Why this works and how it empowers teams to focus on what matters, connecting the technology response, to business outcomes.
* The core role that making guiding principles explicit plays in creating focus and alignment between stakeholders.
* Practical techniques to developing executable engineering strategy by turning concrete problems into action, or uncovering implicit problems from concrete solutions.
* Real-life examples, challenges, and lessons from applying good-strategy bad-strategy to technology and engineering over the past 4 years.

Simon Harris

Technology leader

Eltham North, Australia

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