Yvette Blount

Yvette Blount is an Associate Professor at Macquarie University Business School and is a member of the Centre for Workforce Futures and the Optus Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub. Before her academic career, Dr. Blount worked in senior management and consulting roles relating to information systems in the banking and IT sectors. Dr. Blount’s areas of expertise include anywhere working (telework, telecommuting), telehealth, cyber security governance, e-governance, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence effective utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) including social media and utilization of ICT in learning and teaching. Dr. Blount’s research program utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to investigate how information systems are utilized to achieve organizational strategies and objectives. Dr. Blount teaches information systems in the Master of Cybergovernance and Management including the subjects Blockchain for Competitive Advantage and Cyber governance, management, and ethics.

Publications

Working Anywhere Management Opportunities and Challenges
Working Anywhere Management Opportunities and Challenges
Yvette Blount. © 2022. 17 pages.
This chapter examines the literature relating to information and communications technology (ICT) and opportunities and barriers relating to anywhere working. The workforce is...
Anywhere Working and the Future of Work
Anywhere Working and the Future of Work
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2021. 287 pages.
While the current workforce has pushed for the capability to work from home, it has been the natural disasters and pandemics that have emerged across the globe this past year...
Working Anywhere Management Opportunities and Challenges
Working Anywhere Management Opportunities and Challenges
Yvette Blount. © 2021. 22 pages.
This chapter examines the literature relating to information and communications technology (ICT) and opportunities and barriers relating to anywhere working. The workforce is...
A Clinician's Perspective on Anywhere Working and Telehealth
A Clinician's Perspective on Anywhere Working and Telehealth
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2021. 26 pages.
Clinicians (general practitioners, specialists, allied health professionals) are experts in medicine, not technology. The delivery of healthcare using technology includes changes...
Service Delivery in Aged Care Case Study: ICT and Anywhere Working
Service Delivery in Aged Care Case Study: ICT and Anywhere Working
Gabriele Helen Taylor, Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2021. 21 pages.
This chapter examines how information and communication technology (ICT) and working anywhere was adopted in a not-for-profit aged care organization in Australia. The aged-care...
Working Anywhere for Telehealth
Working Anywhere for Telehealth
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2020. 18 pages.
Clinicians (general practitioners, specialists, and allied health professionals) are experts in medicine, not technology. The delivery of health care using technology includes...
Preface
Preface
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2017. 8 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Anywhere Working and the New Era of Telecommuting.
Management Skills and Capabilities in an Era of Technology Disruption
Management Skills and Capabilities in an Era of Technology Disruption
Yvette Blount. © 2017. 21 pages.
This chapter examines the literature relating to information and communications technology (ICT) and management skills and capabilities relating to anywhere working. The...
Aged Care, ICT, and Working Anywhere: An Australian Case Study
Aged Care, ICT, and Working Anywhere: An Australian Case Study
Gabriele Helen Taylor, Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2017. 20 pages.
This chapter examines how information and communication technology (ICT) and working anywhere was adopted in a not-for-profit aged care organization in Australia. The aged-care...
Working Anywhere for Telehealth
Working Anywhere for Telehealth
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2017. 24 pages.
Clinicians (general practitioners, specialists, and allied health professionals) are experts in medicine, not technology. The delivery of health care using technology includes...
Management Skills and Capabilities in an Era of Technology Disruption
Management Skills and Capabilities in an Era of Technology Disruption
Yvette Blount. © 2017. 16 pages.
This chapter examines the literature relating to information and communications technology (ICT) and management skills and capabilities relating to anywhere working. The...
Aged Care, ICT, and Working Anywhere: An Australian Case Study
Aged Care, ICT, and Working Anywhere: An Australian Case Study
Gabriele Helen Taylor, Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2017. 15 pages.
This chapter examines how information and communication technology (ICT) and working anywhere was adopted in a not-for-profit aged care organization in Australia. The aged-care...
Second Life for Assessing Postgraduate Learning: Student Perspectives
Second Life for Assessing Postgraduate Learning: Student Perspectives
Elaine Huber, Yvette Blount. © 2016. 29 pages.
This case describes how an assessment task for a postgraduate unit (Information Systems in Business) was developed and delivered using the virtual world platform Second Life....
The Worker Perspective in Telehealth
The Worker Perspective in Telehealth
Yvette Blount, Marianne Gloet. © 2016. 10 pages.
Second Life for Assessing Postgraduate Learning: Student Perspectives
Second Life for Assessing Postgraduate Learning: Student Perspectives
Elaine Huber, Yvette Blount. © 2014. 38 pages.
This case describes how an assessment task for a postgraduate unit (Information Systems in Business) was developed and delivered using the virtual world platform Second Life....