The company released its annual IT performance report to share how it is using tech to improve business.
Source: Intel reveals how it is harnessing tech to improve business processes | CIO Dive
Category Archives: Management & Leadership
Implementing World Class IT Strategy – Book Review
Implementing World Class IT Strategy
1st Edition
Management & Leadership
Wiley Press/Jossey-Bass
August 21, 2014
Hardcover
229
The book, Implementing World Class IT Strategy: How IT Can Drive Organizational Innovation by Peter High is a great follow up to Peter's first book World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs. This is a must read for every business leader.
The book shares relevant examples of real-world CIOs overcoming the traditional challenges companies face when developing strategies. As a CIO I find having an IT mission statement crucial for focusing my teams. Chapter 3 goes into great detail on the value of an IT mission statement and provides some great, real-world examples. My favorite is on page 56.
This is a book I've given to my leadership team and I highly recommend reading it. You'll probably want to keep a copy close by for frequent reference.
Integration is the cure for shiny object syndrome | The Enterprisers Project
You often hear the concept “IT-business alignment” or “IT in the business” being discussed among CIO circles. This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s not about alignment – it’s about integration. There is no special distinction for “IT in the business.” We are part of the business just like the chief marketing officer and the chief financial officer. The CIO is no different. IT should be part of the very fabric of the business, not an afterthought.
Source: Integration is the cure for shiny object syndrome | The Enterprisers Project
The new CIO mandate | ZDNet
Most corporate leaders are well aware that technology is increasingly setting the agenda when it comes to how business gets done. How should today’s CIO revisit the way they guide their organization?
Source: The new CIO mandate | ZDNet
Disconnect between CIOs and LOB managers weakens data quality | CIO
Despite the promise of big data, most analytics projects suffer from bad data syndrome, the result of tension between CIOs and line of business managers.
Source: Disconnect between CIOs and LOB managers weakens data quality | CIO
How Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois (& TBM Council Director) changed the IT operating model
Microsoft’s CIO says he and his team think in terms of service offerings and end-to-end business processes, rather than projects and applications, and that helped the company adopt a new IT operating model.
Source: How Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois (& TBM Council Director) changed the IT operating model
How to prepare for the IT department of the future | CIO
In the IT industry, change is the only constant. So how can IT professionals best prepare themselves for the future? Follow these steps.
Source: How to prepare for the IT department of the future | CIO
The Four Critical Competencies Guiding Transformational Leadership – The CIO Report – WSJ
The organizational skills that helped executives in the past deal with concrete, well-defined operations are much less effective in today’s highly complex, fast-changing world, CIO Journal Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes. Leaders need to better anticipate and plan for disruptions and be able to “connect the dots to reveal new business opportunities at the confluence of multiple emergent trends.”
Source: The Four Critical Competencies Guiding Transformational Leadership – The CIO Report – WSJ
World Class IT – Book Review
World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs
1st Edition
Management & Leadership
Wiley Press/Jossey-Bass
December 9, 2009
Hardcover
192
The book, World Class IT: Why Business Succeeds When IT Triumphs by Peter High is a book I read very early in my career as a CIO. The book lays out five principles of "World Class IT" that provide a great foundation for any IT leader.
- People - Recruit, Train and Retain World Class IT Employees
- Infrastructure - Build and Maintain a Robust IT Infrastructure
- Project & Portfolio Management - Field an Effective Project Development & Portfolio Management Process
- IT & Business Partnerships - Ensure that IT Partners within the Department and with the Business
- External Partnerships - Develop a Collaborative Relationship with External Partners
The concepts in the book are as relevant today as when the book was first published. I find myself often referring back to the book for guidance on our continuous IT transformation journey. I highly recommend adding this book to your library.