Tag Archives: Leadership

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

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