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Patrick Barrett

Chief Information Officer · Australia · Global perspective

Connecting technology investment to enterprise outcomes.

I connect enterprise technology decisions with the way an organisation serves customers, manages risk and gets work done.

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A personal note

Enterprise technology must support change while keeping essential work dependable. I begin with business capabilities, make dependencies visible and agree ownership of the transition with operating leaders. Resilience and adoption belong in the investment case from the start.

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Subjects I care about

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01Digital transformation
02Cyber resilience
03Enterprise architecture
04Data governance

62%

Applications retired

99.98%

Core platform availability

₹740 Cr

Run-cost released

Countries on one ERP

Stories from the work

Each began with a difficult question.

01Enterprise modernisation

A fragmented application estate was making business change harder to coordinate. I established an enterprise roadmap grounded in business capabilities, mapped critical dependencies and agreed a staged transition with the operating teams. The work gave sponsors a clear view of what each phase enabled and prevented local projects from creating new enterprise constraints.

02Resilience programme

Resilience had been discussed as a technical topic detached from business continuity. We mapped critical services to their technology dependencies, clarified recovery responsibilities and rehearsed decision-making across teams. The programme made ownership visible and turned resilience into an operating conversation involving the people who would make decisions during disruption.

03Data transformation

Different business units used the same terms for different measures. I convened business owners and technology leaders to establish shared definitions, ownership and practical controls around important data. We began with specific decisions that needed better information, allowing the value of governance to be demonstrated through everyday use.

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