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Gregory Punshon

I am a Generalist, bridging the technical and business domains. My focus is leading change within organisations to generate true value from service delivery business units. I draw on my leadership success across manufacturing, heavy industry, defence and government sectors to optimise the people, processes and technology within organisations. I have worked for Fortune 50 corporations and SMBs, gaining over 25 years of experience identifying problems and correcting problems with innovative solutions. I have perspective from all broad technology viewpoints and from business areas, my vision is corporate, not technology based.

I am a strong leader of people who understands the importance of investing time in staff and the benefits that flow from this

I mentor staff; one of the main values I give my managers is the understanding that they have no useful assets other than their people. Organisations recover quickly from failed equipment but slowly from a poor culture or loss of institutional knowledge. I create the most attractive work environment possible within the organisation, affording people as much flexibility, opportunity and enrichment as can be supported by organisational constraints. I work with HR professionals to improve conditions, not simply remuneration, but accommodating lifestyle choices to make the organisation an employer of choice. Generation Y staff are not difficult to manage, the same flexibility and ethical behaviour given to all staff will address their needs for clear career paths and value propositions.

Strategic thinker - I set strategic targets and deliverables that matter to the organisation

I am strong supporter of useful KPIs that support organisational goals. Creating a useful information strategy that yields these KPIs is difficult but achievable. I have found that the staff in an organisation often have little trouble identifying the KPIs that matter if the information strategy is written so that it clearly illustrates what is important to the organisation and what is not. Individual performance objectives can then be directly linked to business unit strategy and then to corporate strategy.

Experienced Technology Project Manager

I have managed multi-million dollar projects in networks, information processing and, telecommunications in manufacturing, insurance, defence and government industries. The projects themselves include the full range of IT&T services including: EDP, GIS, B2B, CRM, Integration, JIT, EDM and most other TLAs

Thought leadership

I introduced Internet access and Open Source in production roles to meet emerging business needs long before this became main-stream. I define innovation as a process that gives an organisation options. Thinking in this way, helps identify desirable future states that can be promoted to the organisation. Interoperability, managing complexity, governance and Social Networking are areas that currently require leadership.

Change management / Executive Negotiation

Generally I have been engaged to "fix" organisational problems and people. I find that most people accept and adapt to change very well so long as they are clearly informed and can respect the process used by management to reach decisions, even if they don't agree with the outcomes. There are always difficult people and situations to overcome, I treat these on their particular circumstances rather than following a one-size-fits-all rule.

Enterprise architecture

I have architected networks and information infrastructure for heavy industry, defence, government, insurance, manufacturing and retail sectors. I find the challenge stems from determining the balance between flexibility compared to reliability, and security against ease-of-use. Valid organisational strategies assist in determining the balance, however managing organisational expectations is also key as is including the skill level of the people using the system, and projections for changes in these skill levels. You can see I don't view architecture as a hardware and software choice, but an organisational activity requiring significant understanding of organisational and staff elements and change.

Strong technology knowledge across the board

I am a generalist by choice, I seek to know sufficient about many topics so I can make informed decisions and more importantly, understand when I need specialist assistance. I have worked in most sectors and in the largest and smallest of organisations. I have written code for business and industry, designed networks, implemented database systems, written and supported eCommerce applications, created integrations systems for import/export and trading entities so I have a solid foundation. As a manager and director I have maintained a current knowledge of trends and techniques, both traditional and web-based. I spend about 10 hours a week monitoring trends and changes, especially following societal computing as this will impact significantly on the workforce and customers.

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