People do what they're measured against and all too often measures are set in functional silos which creates pockets of people working to maximise their potential but to the detriment of their colleagues across the hall.
If that weren't bad enough, measured against some fairly basic requirements their track-records generally rank as dismal. The importance of this cannot be overstated as these people are the foundation by which successful IT delivery in the...
Ultimate measures of a CIO's success should be on contribution to growth and productivity - as measured by revenue and margin improvement. Judging CIO performance purely on the strength of the company's share price is an unfair and unreliable...
This is then followed up with a post-change benchmark to validate the improvement programme's goals. Leading IT executives use benchmarking to categorise performance into a baseline of measures that a performance improvement programme can act upon.
The obligation to protect all information imposed by the Companies Act does at least ensure common measures such as encryption can be applied and simplifies the process of developing an information security policy.
With an educational background in computer science he went on to become global CIO for logistics company DHL and then CIO for Lenovo Group where he helped lead the initial stages of the $11bn spin-off from IBM in 2005.
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