CHAIRPERSON: Thornton May,Futurist, Executive Director and Dean, IT Leadership Academy |
POSSE MEMBERS: Bruce Barnes,CIO Emeritus, Nationwide Financial Services |
 Karlin Sue Bohnert,Chief Development Officer, VP Emeritus - Abercrombie & Fitch |
 Louis Gutierrez,CIO Emeritus – Commonwealth of Massachusetts; CIO Emeritus Harvard-Pilgrim Healthcare |
 Joe Puglisi,Vice President and CIO, EMCOR Group, Inc. |
CIO Boot Camp
Monday-Tuesday, September 15-16
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
A big part of CIO success is interoperability – not just technical interoperability [which is why many CIOs fail] – but human interoperability [which is why great CIOs succeed]. Successful IT leaders understand the human drama which is work, becoming adept at choreographing tribal behaviors toward desired outcomes. Leadership was never more important or more difficult.
Centuries of educational research and decades of experience at the world’s top business schools demonstrate unambiguously that the best [and most cost effective] way to avoid making mistakes is to learn from those who made them in the first place. The CIO Posse is a group of been-there-done-that C-class executives from billion dollar plus organizations who will share with you the mistakes they have made and roll-up-their-sleeves in personalized workshops to demonstrate how these lessons apply in your world.
The CIO Bootcamp blends ahead-of-the-curve, relevant to you leadership research with fresh-from-top-of-tech-trenches practical know-how giving participants a fully rounded tool kit to meet the challenges of the next generation IT organization.
DAY-BY-DAY OVERVIEW
Day One
Tales From the Top-of-Tech
- C-level ‘war’ stories from the trenches:
- Why CIOs lose their jobs
- Toughest Moment as an IT leader
- What You are Proudest of
- Lessons “on the way in and out”
IT and the ‘Money’ Thing
- The Relationship with the CFO
- How IT Budgets Really Work
Understanding Organizational Psychology: Getting Inside the Heads of the ‘Suits’
- Inventory of mental models at work across the organization
- Dangerous points of delusion/irrationality/ignorance
Getting Out of the Engine Room
- Repositioning IT as a Strategic Player rather than a ‘machine tender’
Taming the Enterprise Software Beast
- Large Scale deployments & avoiding the ‘career chipper’
- What the Subscription Research Firms DON”T Tell You About ERP
Managing IT ‘Vegetables’: Alignment, Compliance, Governance, & Infrastructure
- What it is/Why it matters
- Why it is difficult
- Explaining it to the 'Suits'
Structured For High Performance
- The interests behind centralization (order) and decentralization (flexibility)
- The ways in which Services Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Planning, and other emerging technologies and methodologies, are shifting the balance of interests
- The importance of context and timing
- Achieving compromise – aggressive consolidation of infrastructure, and core application services, with a generous distribution of business analytic resources within the business units – different approaches at different layers of the stack
- The role of “centers of excellence” in achieving transitions
- The importance of application inventory and architecture – even when the applications aren’t yours
- Politically avoiding the image of IT good-hygienist / empire-builder, while arguing the case of IT order
Day Two
Managing Vendors
A must-have core competency is the ability to extract full value from vendor partners:
- Vendor management strategy
- Vendor management program and metrics
- Initiating and terminating vendor relations
IT Strategic Planning Processes
Properly conceptualized, boldly imagined and precisely deployed IT projects can create competitive advantage. Learn best practices:
- Building IT road maps
- Getting executives to think strategically about IT
Managing the People of IT
- Relationship with HR department
- Biggest challenge/worst moments
- Retaining and attracting the ‘right’ kind of IT worker
- Best practices for managing high performance IT professionals
- Managing the ‘cultural thing’
- Thoughts about the IT workforce of the future
Managing Personal/Social Networks
The evolving science of human relationships:
- Identifying Key Players
- Hubs
- Pulse Takers
- Gate Keepers
IT and Innovation
- Frameworks
- Tools
- Techniques
- Best Practices