Saturday, March 3, 2018

The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: CIOs as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” Mar. 2018

CIOs generally have greater opportunities to stand out and practice digital leadership in driving innovation across their companies. 


Compare to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. Here are a set of blogs to brainstorm digital CIOs as “Chief Intrapreneur Officers.”

      


CIOs as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer”


CIOs as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer”: Practicing Entrepreneurship in IT? Contemporary CIOs have multiple personas, "Chief Innovation Officer," and “Chief Intrapreneur Officers,” are the most pertinent titles for CIOs to fit the digital leadership role in running IT as a business. Companies are recognizing that IT is roughly coupled to the business strategy as an innovation engine. With increasing pace of changes, CIOs generally have greater opportunities to stand out and practice digital leadership in driving innovation across their companies. Being entrepreneurial is first the mindset, then an attitude and skills are the easier part to be developed. More and more forward-looking IT organizations are practicing entrepreneurship and running IT as a software startup to play the niche and make continuous deliveries.

The New Book “12 CIO Personas” Chapter 9 Introduction: The CIO as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” The majority of organizations at the industrial age are manipulated by silo thinking and hierarchical management style. To break down silos, intrapreneur-executive leadership is an emergent digital trend. Corporate Entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship has been recognized as a potentially viable, it means for promoting and sustaining organizational performance, renewal and corporate competitiveness. Being entrepreneurial is first the mindset, and then attitude, skills are the easier part to be developed. IT plays a crucial role in driving change and leading digitalization. One of the most appropriate titles for the digital CIO is “Chief Intrapreneur Officer,”to run IT as the software startup.

Corporate Entrepreneurship & Business Model Innovation Many established large organizations are struggling with innovations, due to the lack of the culture of innovation or the internal business capability & capacity to support it. Especially for business model innovation, it runs up against a "not now, later" obstacle. As a business leader, you know you may be vulnerable and should do something, but you also know that, by definition, such innovation will be disruptive to the current business. So what are the strategies and methodologies to advocate business model innovation? Can corporate entrepreneurship be seen as a business model innovation

Three Perspectives of Intrapreneur Leadership? Corporate Entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship has been recognized as a potentially viable, it means for promoting and sustaining organizational performance, renewal and enforce competitiveness. Being entrepreneurial is first the mindset, then an attitude and skills are the easier part to be developed. Here are three aspects of intrapreneur leadership.

CIOs as Chief Intrapreneur Officer: Three “C”s in Intrapreneur-Executive Leadership Intrapreneur-executive leadership is an emergent trend, if entrepreneurship is to look for changes, deploy it as an opportunity, then, intrapreneurship is about creating new venture from within an established company- There are three “C” leadership traits intrapreneur-leaders can bring to the board.

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