mark rothko, 150 value studio 37 the evolved & evolving it leader november 6, 2014 amelia...

Mark Rothko, 150

Value Studio 37The Evolved & Evolving IT Leader

November 6, 2014Amelia Island, Florida

“CIO Issues Workshop”

Work Shop Question Cluster #1

The board is concerned about the possibility of the company’s main products being digitally disrupted

and is considering hiring a CDO and/or consultants

to help craft a digital strategy.

What should you do?

“New Animals”exercise

Report Backs

What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

Quick AudienceJumpball

Thoughts and/or Experiences with New C’s

[e.g., Chief Data Officer, Chief Analytics Officer,

Chief Data Officer?]

90 second exercise

Evolutionary Bonus Question

a number of biologists

are now returning to

Darwin’s idea

that speciation

occurs most often through competition in open spaces

Is the arrival of new C’s a case of

leadership speciation in response to the environment?

Work Shop Question Cluster #2

In your groups,

please discuss

and be prepared

to report back

regarding

new leadership traits

you and/or your organization

have evolved over

the past 5 to 7 years?

“New Traits”exercise

Report

Backs

What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

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Evolutionary Forces

Tomasello, 4.

early humans were at some point forced by ecological circumstances into more cooperative lifeways

#1 Skill Set in the Future…

“Findability”Stephen Laster, CIO- Harvard Business School

Modern Day Smoke Signals x

I met a librarian years ago who said 

his job was to “start

conversations.”

I love that.

Jeff Goldenson, Library Director

Olin College of Engineering;

formerly head of Harvard Library Innovation Lab & LABRARY

How long does it take -

typically to impart a new leadership trait

to a direct report?

Quick Jump Ball

At your table quickly come up

with one or two examples:

The Evolutionary Time Scale

Bernard Wood, Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction [Location 260]

David Robson, New Scientist [20 March 2012]

Work Shop Question Cluster #3

What leadership traits

NEVER

Go out of style?

“What Doesn’t Change”exercise

Report

Backs

What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

Leadership Bonus Question

Every species in the zoo and the aquarium has a

head and two eyes. Call these species “Everythings.”

Complete this sentence, “Every modern IT leader must…

90 secondexercise

Change what you measure.

Change what you make visible.

Change what you celebrate.

Lessons For the “Evolved” and “Evolving” Leader

Roy RosinHead of Innovation [emeritus]

Intuit

Culture 101

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What metrics do we use?

How does your

organization measure culture?

90 secondexercise

Work Shop Question Cluster #4

Please describe

the environment

5 years from now

we will have to adapt to?

3 Minuteexercise

Report Backs

What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

Jill Lepore, “The Disruption Machine,” New Yorker [23 June 2014]

HTTP://WWW.NEWYORKER.COM/MAGAZINE/2014/06/23/THE-DISRUPTION-MACHINE

This fall, the University of Southern California is opening a new program:

“The degree is in disruption,”

the university announced.

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What Will Webe Talking

about in the future?

In The Cycles of American History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  explains that

what anchors some organizations in the past and launchesother enterprises into the future is their response to

the  “detonating issue” of the day.  

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Exercise

In 2015 what do you imagine

will bethe  “detonating issue” of the day for leaders?

In 2020?

To change the culture,

change the

conversation.

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Seth GodinThornton May

[New Orleans 2012]

Work Shop Question Cluster #5

How will the role of the CISO change in the next 5 years?

90 secondexercise

Evolution Bonus Question A

90 secondexercise

In 5 years, security will comprise

what percent

of the IT budget?

Evolution Bonus Question B

90 secondexercise

In 5 years, by what new metrics

will security be measured?

Changing Metrics

In a hyper-connected and social media oriented workplace,

we may soon bear witness to a profound shift of emphasis

away from the industry’s touchstone metrics of occupancy/vacancy/density and area

per person to new metrics that chart

effectiveness, satisfaction and wellbeing in the workplace.

Philip Tidd, Gensler

Work Shop Question Cluster #6

How will CIOs in the future

measure how “evolved”

their IT organization is ?

3 Minuteexercise

What Patterns/Trends [if any]

do you perceive in your responses?

Work Shop Question #7

How will organizations

Shop/Buy technology

Products and Services

in the future?

3 Minuteexercise

Work Shop Question Cluster #8

A board member taps you on the shoulder and asks for a five minute explanation of “the cloud”

What do you tell him?

90 secondexercise

The Cloud“It’s safe if you know what you are doing”

David "Cupid" Monroe Right Wing

Paul "Rocket" Hornick Left Wing

Work Shop Question #9

What will the analytics organization of the future

look like?

3 Minuteexercise

x

xÜber Themes

2012-2013

http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/Vocus/vocus-brian-solis-ebookfinal/1.

What will the analytics organization of the future

look like?