Loading ...“The CIO Is Dead”
I read this pronouncement in CRM Mastery e-Journal published by Jim Berkowitz. Now, this is an attention grabber! You should read the complete post and interview with Ian Campbell, CEO of Nucleus Research to see that the analysis does have a merit and has to do with evolution of CIO role in an enterprise.
The transformation of Data Processing Manager into MIS Director, before the age of the CIO, was reflective of increased responsibility for construction and management of corporate information flows (i.e. business applications portfolio) compared to running payroll, GL, and connected reporting. Realization of a strategic role of IT as a business enabler brought a title of CIO into an orgchart, but career path of many practitioners remained the same. When an enterprise empowers it’s CIO become the custodian of business processes with an authority to reengineer, to automate, to manage adoption and compliance, there is a strong requirement for thought leadership and understanding of underlying economics which are not often possessed by people trained in network administration or computer programming.
There are many excellent blogs and other resources on the Internet which explore methodologies and Best Practices for business process re-engineering, project management, systems implementation, software engineering, and change management. However I could not find much help with unlocking value of integrated utilization of these disciplines to facilitate Organizational Transformation. In this blog I would like to focus on this subject. I would like to stress that this is not an academic inquiry, but a practitioner's desire to discuss and share practical business knowledge and Best Practices. Let's see how it evolves - "Every brilliant idea quickly degenerates into a lot of hard work" - Peter Drucker.