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Ray, I agree with most of the sentiment of the post, but a few comments. On the highest level I think that your 11 attributes are more aligned with the mode of doing business and IT strategies rather than characteristics and specific skill sets that a future CIO will need to have in order to be successful. Perhaps that’s a separate post, but will require better business acumen than technical and comfort with orchestration rather than a tight command and control mindset.
But two things in your list that I’m rather curious about are:
1. Move away from mega-suites to best of breed. Given that the mega-vendors haven’t completely embraced SaaS yet, I get that perhaps it will drive a move to best of breed SaaS providers, but that in an of itself is a relative term. I’m not sure that you can make the case that certain SaaS-based apps would win a best of breed comparison against existing on-premise apps, but that’s a separate discussion. However, doesn’t this recreate the integration challenges that existed previously which set the stage for the growth of the mega-suites (who did acquire many of the BoB software companies to fill vertical or niche gaps in their solutions)? Or do you think that SOA, BPEL and perhaps integration platforms like Boomi solve the problem adequately. I’m not sure I feel strongly either way, but just asking.
2. Change in App Development Strategy. I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying here. I agree that the advent of Cloud and PaaS will accelerate the trend towards a distributed development organization and perhaps remove the designation between direct employees and outsourced product development partners, but “procured through the cloud” sounds like abandoning internal app development initiatives and push COT-C (Commercial Off The Cloud; although not really important whether SaaS or On Premise) solutions. Is this what you’re driving at?
Glenn, as usuall great points. Next post is about characteristics for the future cio. On point 1 – app strategy is to stabilize core app suite, augment with SaaS till something better comes along or the mega vendors have SaaS suites. Point 2 – short answer yes. procured through the cloud and built in the cloud from in-house will both occur.
Ray, great insight, as always. I would add that CIOs must lead by point of view and a focus on the critical few rather than policies and diluting their focus across the overwhelming many. Since all of your points are much easier said than done, and growing next gen CIOs is every HR exec’s challenge (among many others), where/to whom do we look for candidates and how do we develop/incent/mentor/etc. them?
Ray: terrific post – three comments on the skill shifts for next gen CIO:
1. I believe that CIOs are now more than ever being asked to shift their focus from internal customers to external customers – specifically, helping to “technology enable” customer contact strategies around call centers, mobile, social, B2B partnerships, etc. in order to help turbo-charge growth. The CIO skill (in some instances, not all) is morphing from “employee focused” to “customer focused” for the next Gen CIO.
2. I’d propose that the security skill be abstracted into a broader focus on corporate risk – in my experience, the discussions today with executive teams focuses more on risk than on discrete security concerns. Business leaders are tired of being beaten over the head with (and funding) security projects. If the investment can help to manage or reduce business risk, then the discussion can move forward and be balanced against other risk-based initiatives, otherwise, if it is simply another “security” project, it does not stand a chance.
3. Finally, it will be interesting to see how these trends impact well entrenched, process-centric frameworks like ITIL – given a shift towards speed, individual decision making and “disruptive” business processes as you mention, will these frameworks become irrelevant over time, or will they also adapt? Not sure, but will be interesting to see what happens, as lots of companies have significant amounts of time and money invested in these frameworks.
Look forward to the next post in the series.
Ray
This was a really compelling read. I look forward to reading this series.
I have spoken with a few people about the death of the term “Information Technology” and its eventual replacement, “Business Technology.” With so many changes taking place, I agree that it’s high time for CIOs to either adapt or perish.
Phil
Great article, thank you for sharing!
-Tim
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