Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Many Faces of CIOs Apr. 2019

Digital CIOs today need to be dynamic people with multidimensional intelligence, multi-faced personas, multilayered professional competencies and have a multitude of leadership qualities.

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum. What are digital CIO’s profiles and how to reboot IT to get digital ready and cultivate the culture of learning and innovating?
     



   Many Faces of CIOs


Three Roles to Make CIOs Stand Out Due to the exponential growth of information and continuous technology-led disruptions, it is increasingly important to run a business-driven digital IT organization for dealing with “VUCA” digital new normal and driving digital transformation proactively. CIOs today need to be dynamic people with multidimensional intelligence, multi-faced personas, multilayered professional competencies and have a multitude of leadership qualities in order to lead IT as a trustful business partner and business growth engine.

Three Perspectives of Strategic CIOs Due to the exponential growth of information and continuous disruptions often led by technologies, the business will not just use IT as a digital extension, but leverage IT across their organization to attain the enterprise-wide digital competencies. CIOs have to be the strategic business leader to lead, advise, and execute proactively, with the goal of clarifying the direction for the whole company to follow and developing the best and next practices for accelerating performance.

The CIO Positioned as a Mentor to the Business At today’s information-driven business dynamic, IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. Many think IT is shifting from being a static function which is often controlling or even lagging behind the changes to being the changing organization of the entire company. The role of the CIO also keeps evolving rapidly in the midst of accelerating changes in technology, the exponential growth of information and the tough journey of digital transformation. To improve leadership maturity, digital CIOs should transform their leadership style from “command & control” to coaching and mentoring, and position IT as a trustful business partner.

Shaping the Modern CIO as “Digital Designer”? With the overwhelming growth of information and lightweight digital technologies, IT is no longer just the mechanical or monolithic hardware pieces to keep the business spinning or the mechanism for realizing a vision described by other C-level executives. Modern CIOs need to think like the digital designer, be open-minded and creative, reimagine the “art of possible,” show constructive dissatisfaction, understand the risks and potential bear traps, in order to reinvent IT as the strategic business partner and innovation engine of the business.

The Futurologist CIO Digital transformation isn’t just an extension of continuous improvement of the current business, but a quantum leap with radical changes. The futurologist digital CIOs attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future of the business and how they can emerge from the present and run IT as a game changer. It is at the tipping point that top performing companies see IT as an asset, capital, and source of competitive advantage.

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