Cairo Walker, Senior Consultant
Overview
Cairo has more than fifteen years business experience across a wide range of disciplines and industry verticals with on-the-ground experience in the areas of online services, project and event management, business analysis, change management, strategic and operational planning, marketing and operations.
Cairo has led the strategic and operational online offerings for two of New Zealand’s Top Five companies, Woolworths and Fonterra. She has also worked with smaller, niche companies to leverage the online environment and drive new business models and business processes. Within Australia, Cairo has used online technology to market the ventures of a number of arts, local council, tourism and community-based organisations.
Cairo’s primary focus is on the application of information management strategies and initiatives to ensure effective business outcomes are secured. The intranet initiatives that Cairo has led have realised millions of dollars worth of quantifiable, measured annualised benefits to their respective organisations. Changing business processes and delivering a real competitive advantage to the organisation delivered this positive payback.
Cairo has practical understanding of traditional internet, extranet and intranet sites and content management systems as well enterprise information portals. She is one of a very small number of knowledge and information management practitioners who has a working knowledge of enterprise portals.
Cairo has run numerous workshops and spoken at many conferences throughout Australia and New Zealand. Cairo has lectured on information technology to post graduate students at the University of Sydney.
Cairo’s strength is in synthesising complex business problems into practical solutions and delivering through people.
Cairo’s Speaking Roles
- 7th Annual Strategic Intranet and Enterprise Portal Management
28-29 August 2006
Auckland, New Zealand
Pre-conference workshops, on “Intranet Honeycomb: a New Model for Extracting the Best from your Intranet”, and conference presentation on “What Makes Intranets Work?” - Institute for Information Management Conference
14-16 August 2007
Canberra, Australia
Conference presentation on “IM Strategy and Planning” - Open Publish 2007
1-3 August 2007
Sydney, Australia
Conference presentation on “Enterprise 2.0 in practice” - Innovative Information Management Planning
27 June 2007
Canberra, Australia - 5th Annual Information Management Summit 2007
28-30 March 2007
Wellington, New Zealand - Document and Content Management Evolution
8 - 10 November 2006
Canberra, Australia - Institute for Information Management Conference
24 August 2006
Canberra, Australia - Open Publish
1-3 August 2006
Sydney, Australia
Qualifications
- Master of Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
- Bachelor of Art, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
