The heartbeat of every successful business I used to be the individual that didn’t care about culture in an organization. “If you did your job and everyone else did theirs, then why do we have to be culturally aligned?” I will tell you that over the last few years, I’ve seen first hand what culture can do inside a business. A difficult one to tackle is when you bring multiple companies together during M&A deals. Culture in business refers to the shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices that shape the way people within an organization interact with one another and
Category: IT Leadership
Data is a critical asset for any organization, and managing it effectively is essential for driving business value and achieving competitive advantage. As such, CIOs need to play a key role in ensuring that their organizations are managing data effectively. This article highlights some of the things that CIOs need to do with data. Develop a data management strategy The first step for any CIO in managing data effectively is to develop a data management strategy. This strategy should outline how the organization will manage data, including how it will be collected, stored, secured, analyzed, and used. The strategy should
Regardless of the intention, if you come into an organization outside of an IT role and immediately divert your attention towards IT, you will be judged. The IT department is there to assist other departments, no question about that. I don’t want you to think that we’re talking about people that need tools in order to perform their jobs. No, these are the individuals that will write you an email on day one of starting their position and tell you exactly what IT needs to do to improve the organization. The other group is the group that’s barely holding on
Business Leaders vs Software Developers: it’s time for the fight of the century. And both sides will lose. I walk a fine line between both teams and both need improvement. When the software development team is left unmonitored, that’s when real issues start to arise. From the Business Side A ticket is submitted and it takes days, sometimes weeks, for someone to respond to it. What are the software developers even doing? You hear that they’re busy, but busy with what? All you see is that your work is not getting done. You give it a couple of months, but
IT is a department that exists in most organizations, regardless of the size, or at least within the ones that can afford it. It’s a department similar to HR and Finance in the sense that it touches all other departments. Unfortunately, the IT department is frequently overlooked in project planning. It’s also a department that’s valued when the individual’s issues are prioritized and quickly becomes the problem when projects are deprioritized. What’s the solution to this? We’ll explore that in this article. Is the Organization’s IT problem really a problem? Functional Teams Functional teams within an organization tend to focus
IT’s The Same Old STuff Each Day. Not Really. Daily work is always different for an IT leader. No two days are alike and that’s what makes it fun sometimes and stressful other times. There are dozens of recurring daily tasks, but we’ll just cover 5 in this article. Purchase Requests The email that I absolutely love to get is the Purchase Request. Everything always runs smoothly. IT gets exactly what they want, finance approves it no questions asked and purchasing creates that Purchase Order promptly. I hope you can sense the sarcasm. I get a minimum of five PR’s