Strategic Change: Working with Directors & Boards
Professional ForumSebastian Chan, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australia, Timothy Hart, Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand, Nancy Proctor, The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, USA, Carolyn Royston, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, United States
Apparently in the business world “digital is now firmly in the C-suite” but the reality of digital transformation work is that it is both a bottom-up and top-down challenge. As a sector we have been quick to focus on the bottom-up through a focus on building skills and running internal staff sessions introducing new digital practices, but we’ve also found that there are limits to this. When your Director and Board is uncomfortable there will be a limit to the scale and potential of any such organisational transformation. In this Professional Forum, several seasoned practitioners will talk about their approaches to working with the complexities of Boards and Directors whose reputations have been forged pre-Internet.