Top IT Trends in MANAGEMENT Drive Projects: CIO Role and IT Metamorphosis
CIO Insight’s Top IT Trends for 2008 were particularly interesting in the STRATEGY and MANAGEMENT areas. My last three posts dealt with STRATEGY. Now I’ll react to the MANAGEMENT trends . First up are the trends related to the role of the CIO and the metamorphosis of IT:
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CIO Insight: No downturn for CIO role- the CIO role will become more important and the IT function will grow more centralized.
PM411: This “prediction” has been talked about for 20 years- the problem is not solved by CIO role expansion, but by executive governance boards taking the responsibility for which projects should be done, supported by a PMO-like organization that considers ALL projects, both IT and non-IT.
CIO Insight: CIO role becomes more demanding- CIOs have to excel at strategy and operations, particularly in building high-performance IT organizations.
PM411: This again is a bit misguided especially as it relates to strategy and operations. Centralization and expertise must increase among different NON-IT parts of the organization related to project priorities and control, and THEIR understanding of IT.
CIO Insight: IT metamorphosis continues- IT organizations keep undergoing major changes but they aren’t all changing in the same way.
PM411: Changes happens constantly in different ways to different organizations and different people? What else is new?
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I expect my view of the CIO role to be in the minority. Asking the CIO to be the CEO is ridiculous- rather, project management centralization that includes support for innovation and strategy needs to occur. Without this type of thinking, the “IT metamorphosis” will create a monster.
What do you think? I want to be challenged especially by those of you who are actively managing IT, operations, strategy, innovation, and project management functions- you often know better how these trends can play out.
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