Leadership

The Ultimate High Performing Teams

November 8, 2010

Last week was a big one for me and for Diamond. It marked the beginning of a new chapter for both as we joined forces with PwC. Much remains to be seen as with any new adventure, but it promises to be a high performing combination for our clients. The week was filled with events geared to bring the two companies together to get to know one another, both as individuals and as firms. On ...

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Closing the Expectations Gap

October 25, 2010

Guest Post by Louie Ehrlich, President Chevron Information Technology Company, and CIO, Chevron Corp. Note: This is the second in a series, check out part 1 first - The Journey of a Business Strategist CIO In my last post, I mentioned that the third step in moving towards the “business strategist” CIO is elevating the stakeholder relationship from one of service provider to one of a true business partner. After my stint as Chevron’s Global ...

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Does Your Business Have a Decision Making Model?

October 15, 2010

Larry Dignan (@ldignan), ZDNets Editor in Chief, recently referenced a post written by my friend Vinnie Mirchandani at Deal Architect. In it, Vinnie makes several interesting assertions about the effectiveness of analytics in the enterprise. For example, he thinks that many companies can’t or don’t want to deal with the truth in the data because they won’t like the answers. I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics and its role in business decision making while ...

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Business Innovation or IT Innovation?

October 5, 2010

Business Innovation or IT Innovation - Video Blog Transcript In the most recent issue of Sloan Management Review, Sloan introduced a new study they are doing along with IBM called the New Intelligent Enterprise. In the study, they surveyed 3000 executives and asked them for their top priority over the next two years. They didn’t answer cost, or growth, or risk, or agility - they said “to achieve competitive differentiation through innovation.” Contrast that with ...

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How a CIO Can Help Improve America’s Education

September 30, 2010

I love the Ocean’s movies, although the middle one was pretty weak. In Ocean’s Thirteen, there is a scene in which Danny Ocean (Clooney) catches Rusty Ryan (Pitt) watching Oprah with a tear in his eye - all while enjoying a nice glass of red. Funny stuff. But I have to admit that I just watched an episode of Oprah - the entire episode. The show focused on the problems with America’s schools and a ...

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The Journey of a Business Strategist CIO

September 28, 2010

Guest Post by Louie Ehrlich, President Chevron Information Technology Company, and CIO, Chevron Corp. The CIO Executive Council developed the Future State CIO® program in 2007 because we wanted to define the future of the CIO role, rather than letting the future define us as CIOs. We’ve seen a lot of progress and believe that now is the time to help CIOs focus on the journey we must travel to deliver the greatest value to ...

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CIO Guest Blog Series - The CIO’s Journey

September 27, 2010

The CIO Executive Council is a great champion of the CIO’s cause. This year, the group is focusing on how to navigate the journey CIOs must follow to move through the three stages of the CIO role: functional head, transformation leader and, ultimately, business strategist. The Council’s vision is of a “The Future-State CIO®” who: adopts a more company-external focus and concentrates the majority of his or her time on using information to drive innovation ...

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A CIO’s Own Learning and Development Plan

August 19, 2010

An article in the latest Fast Company describes “How TED Became the New Harvard - Only Bigger.” TED and Harvard are certainly not the same kinds of animals, but TED has introduced us to a broad set of ideas and is delivering them in brand new ways. After watching the videos from afar, I’m planning to attend TED in 2011 and will certainly blog about it. New models for learning and networking like TED highlight ...

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Business Change Management Using Weak Signals

August 2, 2010

A Fortune 500 company embarks on an ambitious program to implement a Master Data Management solution. Three years and a $100M later, executive leadership decides that too much money has been sunk into the program and the anticipated objectives have not been realized. The program is shut down…...

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CIO Dashboard Blog - 1st Anniversary

March 31, 2010

Today is the one-year anniversary of the CIO Dashboard blog! I appreciate all of the advice, encouragement and interaction throughout and am especially thankful for: My Diamond Colleagues, Adam Gutstein, John Sviokla, Dean Nicolacakis, Paul Blase, David Moon and Devin Henkel, who have supplied encouragement, ideas, coaching, support and a few typo catches too CIO/IT big brains, Peter Kretzman, Michael Krigsman, Abbie Lundberg, Steve Romero, Chris Potts and many others who have kept me honest ...

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