Re Imagine IT At YOUR Company @DifferentiatorZ
May 13, 2015
Re Imagine
IT At YOUR Company
@DifferentiatorZ
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IT needs to change!
They’ve been saying this for years. What’s different now?
There are also trends affecting the fundamentals of business - & thus IT.
“Many of these ideas shun ownership for rent on those elements of the enterprise not tied directly to value creation, suggesting a rethink in how IT is delivered.” – Jim Stikeleather, Executive
Strategist, Innovation, Dell Services, Harvard Business Review blog
1986
• Many CIOs are a C-level in title only
• Only 17% of CIOs were on Executive Team
• Other C-suite members see IT as back office function & cost center
“The executive team often holds little expectation of the CIO. This is a risk, both for the CIO’s role and for the business.” – The
DNA of the CIO – Ernst & Young
What Happened to the New Star of the C-Suite?
What one word best describes your corporate IT department?
What one word do you wish described them?
• 50% of CEOs demand more of the IT function than what it is currently doing. In return, only 10% of CIOs believe they have an execution problem. - Peter
Sondergaard, Gartner global head of research
• Almost half of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service purchased as needed . In addition, they do not feel that their CIO understands the business nor how to apply IT in new ways to the business. - Jim
Stikeleather, Executive Strategist, Innovation, for Dell Services
• 86% of CEOs believe that technology advances will transform their business by 2019. 67% say their IT department is ill-prepared for the change. – 2014 PWC CEO
Study
Re Imagine
IT
“IT as we know it is dead.”
- Charles Araujo - The Quantum Age of IT –
Why everything you know about IT is about to change
GAME OVER
What would you do with a
Fresh
Start?
From this:
• Controlling
• Resistant
• Roadblock
• Tactical
• Primarily Cost-Cutting
• Technology-focused
• Costly
• Reactive
• Sole-source Provider
• Slow
• Supply-driven
To this:
• Enabling
• Flexible
• Driver
• Strategic
• Difference Maker
• Business Champion
• Great Value
• Proactive
• Broker / Orchestrator
• Faster than Rest of Org
• Demand-driven
• Use the model of a Professional Services Organization • Consulting
• Business Requirements • Find Solutions • Integration • Quality Assurance
• Enterprise Architecture/Security • Data Management • Program/Project Management • Vendor Management
• Change the Mindset • Increase Demand • Change the governance model • Radically increase Speed/Flexibility
Barriers
• Current culture
• Lack of corporate strategy / vision
• Legacy systems
• Politics / relationships
• Budget
• Not the right staff/training
• Not enough time
• Sense of urgency
• Afraid to rock the boat
• Lack of know-how
Practical Steps To
Get Started NOW
5th Annual Digital IQ Survey: Digital Conversations and the
C-suite
Companies with collaborative C-suites are 4X more likely to be a top performing company
CIOs are the catalysts for the conversation
“It is quite startling how few CIOs have taken steps to reinvent themselves within their business.” - Maureen Osborne, Global CIO for E&Y
Conclusion
Maintaining status quo is not an option.
You can make the difference!
Terry Bennett 214.912.5664 [email protected]
www.DifferentiatorsLLC.com @DifferentiatorZ www.linkedin.com/in/terryjbennett