Organize

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The “Organize” curriculum topic addresses how to assess the landscape of your organization, build the right organization, and create high performing teams.

Most organizations have the IT capability that they deserve. However well intentioned, naïve IT leaders make changes without understanding the very good reasons underlying poor performance. It is the leader’s job to leave things better than they found them by making changes based on wisdom - not ego, fear, or naïve optimism.

By understanding the industry, company, and the company’s technology positioning, leaders have the information necessary to define their agenda and organizational aspirations. Designing the organization consistent with the Enabling IT model (leveraging federated IT insights and ensuring the appropriate utilization of outsourcing), adopting effective leadership practices, and developing leaders at all levels makes it possible to create the organizational capability and credibility necessary to create strategy collaboratively with business partners, deliver quickly with quality in turbulent times, and realize results that matter to the enterprise.


Organize Articles

Date Article Curriculum
4/24/08 Prince to Pig: Are You Developing or Testing Leaders?
This is the third installment in a series on how to prepare future CIOs to run the show.
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3/19/08 So, You Think You're Ready to be a CIO?
This is the second installment in a series on how to prepare future CIOs to run the show.
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3/7/08 Ready or Not? The Challenge of Developing Future CIOs
This article is the first in a series on how to prepare future CIOs to run the show.
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4/1/07 Coaching for Leadership
When it comes to empowering employees, a little encouragement goes a long way.
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7/1/06 Accepting Responsibility Versus Finger-Pointing
"If individuals don’t accept personal responsibility when things go wrong, their organizations will become dysfunctional and stay dysfunctional."
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5/1/06 The Worst Job in IT
"Change is unstoppable, and CIOs are climbing aboard. Nice for them. But they risk losing their staff unless they communicate better. "
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3/1/06 Survivor - The Organization
"Does it really help you to vote people off your IT island? Isn’t there a better way to build a staff of top performers? In fact, there is."
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1/1/06 Better IT Through Cooperative Leadership
"How to involve everyone in the leadership and management of IT."
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7/1/05 The Heart of Persuasion
"It's not how much you know, it's what you know about your audience."
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5/1/05 A Team Starts With Two
"The best way to develop employees is one-on-one coaching, yet too few executives seem interested in making the effort."
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10/1/04 It's Never Too Late for Time Management
"You can't be a good manager until you learn to manage your own time."
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8/4/04 The Unnatural Selection Process for CIOs
"Why most up-and-comers aren't ready for the next level."
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6/1/04 Desperation Outsourcing
"Did you just stand by and let it happen?"
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3/1/04 The Perils of the Office of the CIO
"The right way to deploy an Office of the CIO structure."
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2/1/04 Leadership Agenda for CIOs: Be Nice
"Why being nice is your foremost task."
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5/1/03 Getting the Most Out of Full-Circle or 360 Degree Feedback
"Full-circle or 360-degree feedback assessments must meet three conditions to be useful: tailored, internalized and followed up."
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4/1/03 Successful Change Management Is Based on Employee Enthusiasm, Not Corporate Directives
"The success of change initiatives depends on employee enthusiasm rather than leadership directives."
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9/1/02 It Pays to Show Your Reports That You Care
"You have the IT capability you deserve."
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3/15/02 The New CIO Mantra: Shut Up and Listen
"For the next three months, keep your mouth shut and don't do anything."
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11/15/01 The Dark Side of Outsourcing
"Farming out the best work will hollow out your organization."
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