CIO as Chief Influencer II: How to Lead Enterprise Social Media Initiatives Effectively

Add social collaboration theme to IT management. Organizations large or small feel enthusiastic about social computing, the CIO is usually the role in orchestrating enterprise’s social strategy, set up the social platform and tools, also govern the activities and monitor the performance. Do CIOs need to immerse themselves in social media to effectively lead their organizations in social media initiatives? A CIO can take advantage of the opportunity...

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EA as Value Creator: How to Communicate with C-Level?

The architecture is made up from common sense, logic, and analogies that most can relate to... EA plays an important role in an overly-complex businesses dynamic today, however, it still has a reputation as an “ivory tower” approach. While talking about showing enough to generate the buy-in, what sorts of artifacts or analyses are useful in building enthusiasm for an  Enterprise EA effort? How to focus on ‘value-add” in a measurable context...

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What Factors keep Business from Championing transformational change?

"A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see."  - Leroy EimeOrganizations large or small are faced with more radical digital or management transformation now, however, change management (the overarching term includes both transformation and change) has very high failure rate overall, what factors keep business from championing transformational changes, or what are key success...

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What does Business Expect from IT

The business expects IT to become the new capability enablers at a higher-changing digital dynamic. High-performing IT is leading with empathy, to understand business customers' frustration and pressure points from their perspective and find a way to move the business issues forward in a way that is advantageous to the entire enterprise. First of all, what does the business expect from IT? Business productivity: Business needs IT to deliver...

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Process Governance Best Practices

Process Governance allows the advantages of standardization, decrease in duplication of effort, and decreased risk of violations that can occur. For large organizations, usually a Global Process Board governs the business processes. Whoever governs, ensure the process is more focused from enterprise and business perspective. What are those process governance best practices? The need for senior management to keep focused. The challenge...

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Five Key Factors in Driving Big Data Project Success

Until organizations get an operational context that can respond to new capabilities, the project can be technically successful, but never deliver enough business value to gain support. Big Data is hot trend, but Big Data project has very low success rate, so the real question is how organizations deal with the situation. Do they continue to pour resource into a failing project, or do they shut it down early to learn what they can get from the experience...

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IT Benchmarking - Love it or Hate it?

Benchmarks can be great but can be really misleading as well. IT leaders like CIOs do their best to improve and present IT performance, IT benchmarking is such an approach. Although IT benchmarking data gets a controversial viewpoint, some love it, while others do not so buy-in. Metrics are great for comparing against peers in the industry but do they really tell you if you're at a competitive position? Information in Benchmarking is helpful....

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Architectural Mind: How to Think Like an Enterprise Architect?

 Not everyone is an architect, but everyone can learn how to think like an architect. Enterprise Architecture is the discipline not just for Enterprise Architects, it's the thinking process every business leader should master, and it's the discipline every mature organization needs to practice.  Not everyone is an architect, but everyone can learn how to think like architect- systematic thinking, holistic thinking, critical...

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Corporate Big Five: From Oxymoron to Clarity

Vision is basically a qualitative statement defining the "perception" of the organization. In order for Built to Last or Good to Great, forward-thinking organizations do need to spend the significant time on clarifying vision and articulating strategy, how to differentiate the following corporate ‘big five”? How to transform them from oxymoron concept into practical planning as well? 1.    What are Corporate “BIG Five”  Vision...

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CIO as Communicator: What's your CFO-Friendly Approaches?

Either heart-to-heart chat or CFO-friendly approaches, the CIO and CFO are both strategic allies and complimentary partners. According to industry survey among both IT and financial decision makers, there's an information gap between CFO and CIO that burdens the relationship. There's been a lot said about the CFOs role as limiting factor for IT impact on the business. Therefore, transparency and speaking the same language is an important start....

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Does Analytics Talent Needs to have “Creatics” (Creativity + Analytics)?

A 'Hybrid' Mind with both Creativity and Analytics can better adapt to a Hybrid World.  Analytics is a multi-faceted discipline that attracts individuals from many backgrounds, with many skill-sets and psychological preferences. Some are analytical by nature (although this may cover preferences for numbers, patterns, systems or for pondering philosophical issues) while others have become analytical as part of a need or desire to broaden their...

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What’s IT Role in Managing Business Analytics/Intelligence Projects?

Business Analytics/Intelligence project is at any forward-looking organizations’ top priority agenda a couple years in a row, although it’s cross-functional, collaborative effort, IT plays critical role in managing the full information life cycle and building sustainable enterprise information management architecture. More specifically, what should be accountability of IT when it comes to business analytics/business intelligence? The IT/CIO is...

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Change vs. Transformation

The World is divided, not because we look differently; but because we think differently.  Change or Transformation is at every progressive organization's agenda, are they the same or have differences? What's leading to change or on the journey of transformation? Mind Shift is required in transformation: The terms "transformation" and "change" truly overlap in the literal definition. Transformation is the more ambitious sounding term, in...

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To Celebrate Rosalind Franklin's Birthday: The Pioneering Scientist to Discover DNA-The Blueprint of Life

Google Doodle celebrates Rosalind Franklin’s birthday today, she was one of the pioneering scientists to discover DNA –the ‘blueprint’ of life.  Franklin was responsible for much of the research and discovery work that led to the understanding of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. Between 1951 and 1953 Rosalind Franklin came very close to solving the DNA structure. When she took an x-ray diffraction image of DNA in 1952,...

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IT Agility vs. Strategy

Agility within and of itself is a strategy.We all remember the old saying: culture eats strategy for lunch. Nowadays, as the speed of change is accelerated, there comes to the new saying: Agility will eat strategy every morning. Are agility and strategy mutually exclusive or they do co-exist? And what’s the best way to balance strategy and IT agility? Agility within and of itself is a strategy. Agility is not only the ability to create the...

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