The Transformation Issue | Idealog.co.nz
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THE
FUTURE
IS HUMAN
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For Seamus Barden, the Master
of Technological Futures was
literally life-changing.
“It’s made a massive difference
to my life - how I interact with other
people, how I learn and absorb, it’s
made me a lot lighter on my feet in
terms of the way I problem solve. I’ve
had a few people come up to me and
say I’m like a different person.”
Seamus moved from
construction project management
to IT ten years ago and thought he’d
reached the top of his game.
I’d gone as far as I could go with
IT Infrastructure project management
and actually was pretty overloaded
with work at the time. So it was
quite ironic when the course was
recommended to me. But I went along
to the interview and signed up the day
after. The idea of listening to a whole
lot of industry ‘doers’, that’s what
excited me the most.”
And that’s when the
transformation began.
“I thought I’d come out with
a working piece of software and it
would be my business model going
forward but actually it’s opened up so
many different doors. At the back of
my mind I had aspirations I’d be the
next Facebook, don’t we all! But there
really is that level of excitement and
I hadn’t got that level of excitement
from my work for quite a while. To be
able to sit there and dream about thePROJECT MANAGEMENT
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to my life - how I interact with
other people, how I learn and
absorb, it’s made me a lot lighter
on my feet in terms of the way
I problem solve. I’ve had a few
people come up to me and say
I’m like a different person.SEAMUS BARDEN