The State of IT Leadership

Summarize the current state in a word…

Leadership is about:

• doing things right and…• doing the right thing.

What if IT built Bentall 5?

Environment

Organization

You

Leaders

The worst leaders are those who the people follow through fearThe next worst are those who the people follow through respectThe next worst are those who the people follow through love

The best leaders are those whose people say, "we did it ourselves".

Paraphrase from Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"

Architects

The worst architects are those who the organization follows through fearThe next worst are those who the organization follows through respectThe next worst are those who the organization follows through love

The best architects are those whose organization says, "we did it ourselves".

Paraphrase of a paraphrase from Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"

Environment

Organization

You

Environment

Organization

You

What will our quarterly results and forecast

be?

What is our long-term enterprise

architecture?

Time Frame Test

• What portion of your day focuses on issues that are in the following time horizon?– Three Minutes– Three Months– Three Years

ROIROCE

Time to MarketCompliance

.NetSOAAjax

MOSS

ROIROCE

Time to MarketCompliance

.NetSOAAjax

MOSSVirtualization

BPMCPM

Partner ExperienceEducator Partner

“Always design a thing by considering it in its larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Eliel Saarinen – Finnish Architect

Cultural Dimensions

Decision Making

GroupIndividual

Outlook / Orientation

LongShort

Accountability

BlurryClear

ResourcesBudgeted /Allocated

“Constrained”

Flexible“Available”

“Always design a thing by considering it in its larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

Eliel Saarinen – Finnish Architect

Environment

Organization

You

“We are at the point in the project where we now need to work with the Architects...”

A U T H E N T I C

Self-Awareness

Self-Confidence

Risk Taking /Tough Decision

Making

Empathy(People, Political,

Social)

Trustworthy Conscientiousness Adaptability

A U T H E N T I C

Environment

Organization

You

The best architects are those whose organization says, "we did it ourselves".