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