Rebuilding defence capability begins with rebuilding the bureaucracy
What has often been missing in Defence acquisition is not technical expertise but the willingness to admit from the outset, ‘This is what we do not yet know.’ Instead, program optimism and political expectations create incentives to hide uncertainty.
Defence middle managers decide department priorities don’t apply to them
Leaders need a new place to begin their analysis of the reform problem.
Defence Enterprise culture: The most important capability
The total Defence Enterprise workforce is the delicate system at the heart of Defence capability. There’s no value in elevating one part to the exclusion or diminution of the others. If one fails, it all fails.
From compliance to resilience: people, culture and information security
The human is both an asset and a liability in information security. Our information security culture often views humans with deep suspicion. How can we move security from compliance to resilience?
Information security strategy: it’s turtles all the way down
Information security strategy, not technology, determines the maturity of an organisation's information security culture and behaviour.