Over the past two years, I have met almost 200 CIO’s at Champion’s IT Executive Roundtables. Our discussions have traversed the business spectrum of the IT management challenges that confront today’s CIO. These challenges ranged from high-level tactical issues including the retention of key employees, balancing governance and regulation requirements, disaster recovery, and security versus supporting the applications that drive business, and transforming data into useful information – to high-level strategic challenges like the transformation of traditional IT organizations into Consumptive Computing environments, how Cloud Computing has become a reality, and Leadership in these swirling economic times.

Leadership is the challenge that has emerged from the Roundtables that separates truly successful CIO’s from the pack. Leadership holds the key to addressing all of these challenges. Leadership takes courage, conviction, clarity of purpose, and resolve.

The obstacle to change is fear – inertia, people protecting their places in the organization, and adherence and loyalty to the status quo. People would rather accept marginal performance than risk taking a path that is unknown to them. True leaders put aside their own fear – and lead their people into unchartered waters that bring new value and success to their organization.

For Champion, the CIO’s who manifest this Leadership mantle are “Rich CIO’s.” Other CIO’s whose organizations are hamstrung by practices that do not create a competitive advantage for their companies are “Poor CIO’s.” Every month, Champion will compare and contrast how RICH CIO’S and POOR CIO’S address specific issues.

Visit www.richciopoorcio.com to learn more.

Comments (0)
David Boim August 17 2009 11:00:00 AM

delicious  |   facebook  |   digg it  |   twitter  |   stumbleupon  |   ping this!