Australia’s leading chief executives are facing a challenge not dissimilar to the one faced by Orson Welles in 1940 when he was commissioned by RKO Pictures to make Citizen Kane.

Just as Welles had at his disposal the same technology that had been used in Hollywood for years, the CEOs all have equal access to the same suite of software packages and cloud services from Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Atlassian and myriad others.