How CIOs can meet executive expectations

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Clearly, there are solutions

This is an interesting article, here is one of the best paragraphs:

"CIOs need enterprise leverage because the pace and scale of customer demands are overwhelming traditional approaches to change. CIOs create enterprise leverage when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy Leverage gives CIOs a way to focus their actions and create significant results for the enterprise and its strategies by making it more innovative, use information more effectively and create competitive advantage. CIOs will exploit specific sources of enterprise leverage based on their role in the enterprise and the activities they perform."

This is clearly a solution in there somewhere. All of those buzzwords must count for something.

Obviously "CIOs need enterprise leverage because the pace and scale of customer demands are overwhelming traditional approaches to change"; otherwise a person with a title only and nothing else can't really do much. This is akin to a boxer who's been bestowed the title of Champion in a class of 1. Furthermore, "traditional approaches to change" is a bit vague. Is this like waiting for everyone to have a car before you realize that the only person buying your buggy whip was an Amish reseller?

How about "focus their actions and create significant results"...exactly, we don't want blurred actions or lame results!

Here's another one: "more innovative, use information more effectively and create competitive advantage." Basically we just want to kick @$$ and take names, rather than have our @$$ kicked...CLEARLY the former is better than the latter!

And finally: "CIOs will exploit specific sources of enterprise leverage based on their role in the enterprise and the activities they perform"...I can tell you how high I want you to jump, I can even get a trampoline for you if you like (any model too), but I can't...er wait...won't jump for you...that's what "their role in the enterprise" dictates.

C'mon!!! This can be boiled down to 1 sentence. You want to be the best! It's an all-encompassing sentence. Certainly the best is ubiquitous, if you weren't the best in one respect then you could not be considered the best, as best concerns not only now, but now + corporate perpetuity...which = infinity as "best" is self-reinforcing... There, now that was easy!

Posted by: THEE WOLF   Posted on: 07/24/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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