The Smith Family + Enable

April 30, 2019May 1, 2019
by Nicole Bailey

We are delighted to announce that Enable Professional Services will be entering into a three-year partnership with The Smith Family whereby we will assist the organisation’s endeavours to support disadvantaged students across Australia.

The Smith Family is Australia’s largest children’s education charity helping disadvantaged young Australians to succeed at school so they can create a better future for themselves and ultimately, break the cycle of disadvantage.

The Smith Family currently supports over 46 000 students across Australia and with Enable’s help, will grow to 52 000 by next year.

If you would like to learn more about The Smith Family, please click here.

I have also included links to their recent ‘Back to School Campaign’ for which you might have already seen on TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qxTkpMGkEo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR4Bj5ZEfl0

Corporate Social Responsibility at Enable

The Enable Corporate Social Responsibility program is made up of country-level strategic corporate partnerships and smaller local events for fundraising & team building.At Enable, it is our culture, talents and commitment to our customers and to each other, which gives us our edge. For this reason, the program aligns with our core business by investing into our community through philanthropic sharing of time, donations and expertise, with a particular focus on education.

CSR Mission Statement

Corporate Social Responsibility at Enable is creating a better future by leveraging our time, skills and expertise to improve the quality of life and learning of those less fortunate in our community.

News

CSR Partnership Announcement

April 20, 2019May 15, 2019
by Nicole Bailey

Enable Professional Services has entered into a two-year partnership with The Smith Family as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility program, commencing May 1, 2019.

The charity will be provided support via community service announcements and content opportunities across the Enable Businesses, Enable Professional Services, Enable labs and Enable Learn.

Enables CEO Bruce Hara says, “We are absolutely delighted to be partnering with The Smith Family to grow the awareness of their key initiatives, drive engagement and ideally make a tangible difference to those in need. We look forward to providing support through our comprehensive staff engagement over the next two years”.

The Smith Family CEO Dr Lisa O’Brien says, “This partnership will help raise awareness of the 1.1 million young Australians living in poverty and drive national support to help more young people break the cycle of disadvantage through education.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to have been selected as one of Enables charity partners. Together, we can help thousands of Australian children in need improve their educational outcomes, so they can create a better future for themselves.”

News

Dr David Aldridge – Principal Consultant

April 17, 2019April 18, 2019
by Nicole Bailey

David has more than 20 years’ experience in technology service and operations management and product development. He is familiar with the challenges of senior management in digital transformation, having held senior roles in large and mid-sized companies including, Experian PLC, Telstra, News Corp, Melbourne University and MYOB. David has established and/or managed technical teams based in 8 countries, and have managed the product development and delivery of cloud services into 11 global markets.

For the last 4 years, he has been leveraging industry experience to guide and provide strategic advice to various organisations, particularly those implementing, or enhancing their use of ServiceNow.

Previous roles include: Principal Consultant (Accenture)

Production Operations Manager (MYOB)
Senior Director Operations and Product Development (Experian Hitwise)
Hosting Technology and Architecture Manager (Telstra)
Director Operations (News Corp Australia – Learning Seat)

Awards or recognitions: Experian – High Performing (HiPo) Executive Program

Melbourne University MBA Full Scholarship
PhD (Melbourne University Dept. of Medicine)

Why did David join Enable, in his own words, “I was attracted to Enable’s focus on being the best ServiceNow partner in the Asia Pacific region”.

Davids favourite quote comes from Albert Einstein: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”.

On the weekends you will find David spending time with family, particularly kids sport/dancing commitments, and occasionally having friends over for some home smoked meat and enjoying a nice wine.

News

What a team, what a conference…

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019
by Nicole Bailey

The Enable Leadership team from Australian and Asia headed to Noida, India last week to attend our company conference hosted by the generous and multitalented India Team.

The 80+ guests were welcomed by Chhavi Shriya and Bruce Hara, opening the proceedings with a celebration cake as Enable has reached the 5-year milestone of operating.

Guests enjoyed updates from Head of People and Culture Rachel Sparkes, A fireside Q&A with Bruce Hara and Head of Delivery Davina Simpson and update from Asia leaders Raymond Ho and Krist Yong regarding Hong Kong and Singapore operations plus an operations update on Enable Labs, Enable’s app business.

The conference also celebrated amazing work by projects teams and individuals alike with annual awards provided to:

Star Rookies of the Year – Sandeep Khanna, Tarandeep Singh, Subham Bhatia, Amritpal Kaur, Ridhima Kalra,
Project of the Year – AIA (Congratulations to Shailesh, Bhanu, Digvijay, Anisha)
Product of the Year – Toolbox
Leader of the Year – Abhay Roy
Enabler of the Year – Deepak Negi & Sanjay Mansingh.

Attendees also enjoyed many performances, from fashion shows to instrumental pieces prepared by our local team members.

Special thanks go to three local conference event planners Aakanksha Gupta, Faheem Rafiq Ali & Prerna Saha for an amazing job planning and hosting on the day.

News

Business is changing, are you keeping up?

April 1, 2019April 3, 2019
by Nicole Bailey

The 4 Essential CHRO Skills

Business is Changing. HR Leaders Need to Change With It

Digital transformation is a top priority for CEOs. Yet, according to Gartner’s 2018 Future of HR Survey, more than 60% of CHROs worry they’re unprepared to manage coming technological disruptions.

So, while the core attributes of a good CHRO—critical thinking, creativity, leadership, and communication—have stood the test of time, they need additional skills to build talent organizations that can move at the pace of today’s business.

CHROs need four key skills to thrive in the future. And the skills may surprise you.

Move fast, communicate faster
Think (even more) strategically
Know your workforce
Build—and sell—your vision

Move fast, communicate faster

According to the Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report, 91% of companies still rely on the traditional HR practice of annual reviews. But in a world where entrenched business models are being systematically disrupted, employees need feedback on a continuous basis, not just once a year.

To build organizations that can change course quickly, CHROs should embrace an agile approach, favoring faster feedback and ongoing reassessment over multi-year planning. They can use AI-powered performance review tools like ADP Compass or Humu, which crunch data on workers’ productivity and give them “nudges” on how to improve it in real time.

Think (even more) strategically

CHROs need a strategic vision to be indispensable in the boardroom.

Know your workforce

More than half of workers say their job responsibilities are too opaque, that they strain under too many demands, and that they’re entangled in to too many professional relationships, according to a recent Gartner study. Yet only 18% of CHROs rank rethinking and reconfiguring organizational structures as a priority within the next three years.

Build—and sell—your vision

CHROs who want to transform entrenched HR processes need to effectively communicate their vision to win buy-ins from key stakeholders across the company. This includes articulating a hiring and growth strategy that accounts for changing workforce dynamics.

In the United States alone, more than 40% of workers are engaged in contingent and gig work, according to a 2018 Deloitte study. Forward-leaning CHROs need to think about building teams with the right mix of full-time staff and project-based freelancers. They also need to future-proof their talent pool by reskilling and upskilling employees for evolving business objectives. For CHROs to succeed on these shifting sands, they will need to lead the way from old HR processes into digitally advanced ones.

Except only, read full article here: LINK

Source: Forbes Magazine

News

Raymond Ho – General Manager Hong Kong

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019
by Nicole Bailey

Raymond Ho joined Enable in August 2017 and came to Enable with more than 20 years’ business development and sales management experience in the IT industry within the Asia Pacific region (APAC).

Raymond is a highly experienced General Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong sales management and business development experience in Greater China and Asia

He came to Enable with various experience in roles such as ‘Country Management’ and ‘Regional Functional roles’ with large IT firms such as IBM, HP, NetApp, SUN, Quantum, and Sequent.

When we spoke to Raymond to see why he considered Enable as an employer in 2017, he mentioned he had “the opportunity to establish and grow a team to offer Enterprise Solutions that helps customers to succeed.”

Raymond’s favourite quote is an old Chinese Proverb “If you always give, you will always have.” On the weekends you will find Raymond enjoying the great outdoors playing tennis and Golf.