Founder Jeff Roberts presented a webinar on Innovation Vista's approach and framework for assessing IT platforms and organizations. The webinar provides a framework that CXO business executives can use to assess the IT function at their own organization.
Enterprise CIOs juggle everything from IT operations to AI, so it is hard to know where to spend time. That is especially true for new CIOs and when fires are burning. Outside thinking, targeted experience or extra bandwidth can help CIOs plan complex technology transformation.
Covid raised IT's profile to levels never seen before, and CEOs now feel better about its enabling impact. Departments unprepared for the surge saw changes in leadership, funding or both. Look to your IT leaders for real enhancements to the business model, not just basic capabilities or efficiencies.
Business executives, and even some CIOs, often see the help desk as a necessity with limited impact potential. That attitude drives a mindset of cost control. If your service desk was hit by the great resignation, consider what you give up by not fully restaffing it.
Mid-market IT leaders know the meeting where every department head argues for their project to top the roadmap. The problem is not the projects but the process for choosing between them. A common framework with a transparent score moves the discussion to the right sequence for maximum impact.
Paying by the drink beats buying a bottle when a bottle is beyond your means, and so it is with Virtual CIOs. For organizations with high needs and IT complexity but limited budgets, it brings in the right wine. The post also explains why its case studies are anonymous.
Every IT leader remembers a first real crisis, when nobody knows what is wrong and the CEO wants a conference bridge. The first five minutes call for diagnosing before treating and not confusing motion with progress. Leaders who apply it build teams that handle the next crisis faster.
Tech startups are the darlings of the press and venture capitalists, but few make it over the hump to critical mass. The best IT strategy for a non-IT startup depends on myriad decisions that tailor it to the company. Technology can make a huge difference well beyond tech startups.
Keeping the lights on, avoiding security breaches and creating efficiency are worthy goals, but they are table stakes now. A company that only does this is waiting to be disrupted. The firm's framework goes further, from stabilizing IT to optimizing and monetizing it.
CEOs face a quandary on information security, a topic needing deep technical expertise but treated as their personal responsibility. Incidents such as SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline and the Shanghai Police database show the stakes. The checklist covers the protections to put in place.
