This document summarizes a study on the skills and initiatives CEOs consider essential for a successful Chief Information Officer (CIO). The study interviewed CEOs of six high-tech companies. CEOs felt the skills needed by a CIO were similar to those of an effective CEO, with the addition of technical knowledge of information technology. However, CEOs did not think senior IT executives demonstrated many of these essential skills. The six initiatives a CIO must pursue to be successful according to CEOs are: developing a strategic perspective, enhancing interpersonal skills, raising awareness of IT's value, reporting results, establishing relationships and visibility, and becoming a change agent.
This document summarizes a study on the skills and initiatives CEOs consider essential for a successful Chief Information Officer (CIO). The study interviewed CEOs of six high-tech companies. CEOs felt the skills needed by a CIO were similar to those of an effective CEO, with the addition of technical knowledge of information technology. However, CEOs did not think senior IT executives demonstrated many of these essential skills. The six initiatives a CIO must pursue to be successful according to CEOs are: developing a strategic perspective, enhancing interpersonal skills, raising awareness of IT's value, reporting results, establishing relationships and visibility, and becoming a change agent.
This document summarizes a study on the skills and initiatives CEOs consider essential for a successful Chief Information Officer (CIO). The study interviewed CEOs of six high-tech companies. CEOs felt the skills needed by a CIO were similar to those of an effective CEO, with the addition of technical knowledge of information technology. However, CEOs did not think senior IT executives demonstrated many of these essential skills. The six initiatives a CIO must pursue to be successful according to CEOs are: developing a strategic perspective, enhancing interpersonal skills, raising awareness of IT's value, reporting results, establishing relationships and visibility, and becoming a change agent.
This document summarizes a study on the skills and initiatives CEOs consider essential for a successful Chief Information Officer (CIO). The study interviewed CEOs of six high-tech companies. CEOs felt the skills needed by a CIO were similar to those of an effective CEO, with the addition of technical knowledge of information technology. However, CEOs did not think senior IT executives demonstrated many of these essential skills. The six initiatives a CIO must pursue to be successful according to CEOs are: developing a strategic perspective, enhancing interpersonal skills, raising awareness of IT's value, reporting results, establishing relationships and visibility, and becoming a change agent.
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Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 Agenda
• Video: Pacific Pride
• El Curso • Caso: Lenox • Objetivos de la Sesión • Revisión de Conceptos Fundamentales
PADE de Gerencia de Sistemas y Tecnologías de Información
Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 El Curso
• Objetivo • Metodología • Evaluación • Programa
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Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 Módulos
Balanced Scorecard Aplicaciones de la TI Uso Estratégico de la TI
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Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 Objetivos de la Sesión
• Comprender la importancia de los sistemas de
información • Identificar los principales retos gerenciales originados por la tecnología de la información
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Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 A CEO’s-Eye View of the IT Function Estudios previos:
• Feeny, Edwards, and Simpson (1992):
•CEOs and CIOs of 14 large organizations based in the UK •“shared vision of the role of IT as an agent of transformation”
• Earl and Feeny (1994):
CEOs should: •position the IT function and the CIO as agents of change •focus on achieving effectiveness, not efficiency from IT •institutionalize business values for IT •build an executive team that includes the CIO •manage IT as integral, not as adjunctive, to the business.
DeLisi, Danielson, and Posner, 1998
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Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 A CEO’s-Eye View of the IT Function This study: • interviews with CEOs of six high-tech companies • all do business internationally • revenues ranging between $80 million and $5,000 million
Skills set CEOs considered essential for a successful CIO:
• general management: understanding of the business as well
as the company’s markets; broad background • strategic sense: a “big picture” view of the organization; ability to synthesize; ability to take calculated risks • interpersonal skills: communication, education, salesmanship, leadership.
PADE de Gerencia de Sistemas y Tecnologías de Información
Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 A CEO’s-Eye View of the IT Function
“The skills CEOs felt were needed by a successful CIO were
virtually identical to those for an effective CEO. The only addition was an understanding of information technology at an architectural level and an awareness of developing technologies that might be valuable to the company”
“Other than technical knowledge, unfortunately, the CEOs did not
think senior IT executives demonstrated many of these essential characteristics”
PADE de Gerencia de Sistemas y Tecnologías de Información
Jaime Serida, Peter Yamakawa, 2001 A CEO’s-Eye View of the IT Function
Six initiatives a CIO must pursue to be successful:
• developing a “big picture” perspective • enhancing interpersonal skills • raising awareness of the value of IT • reporting results • establishing relationships and increasing visibility • becoming a change agent
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