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IT At YOUR Company

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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 tbennett@DifferentiatorsLLC.com

www.DifferentiatorsLLC.com @DifferentiatorZ www.linkedin.com/in/terryjbennett