ctw2007: Preparing for an IT Leadership Role

The panel of current and former CIOs discussed the various major issues related to technology leadership and how to meet them head on with integrity.

Campus Technology Winter 2007
Technology Leadership in Practice

Track Leader: John S. Camp, Ph.D., Former CIO, Wayne State University
Presenters

• Debra Allison, Vice President for Information Technology, Miami University
• Dewitt Latimer Ph.D., Deputy CIO and Chief Technology Officer, University of Notre Dame
• Jack McCredie, Associate Vice Chancellor and CIO, Emeritus, University of California-Berkeley
• Brian Nicholas, Chief IT Security and Policy Officer, Louisiana State University
• Barry Ribbeck, Director, Systems Architecture and Infrastructure, Rice University

“The role of a CTO/CIO is not about technology itself; rather, it is about the ability of a campus to achieve its goals and objectives through technology.” –Brian Hawkins

The presenters copyrighted there materials; however, the materials are supposed to be linked to proceedings.

Information they shared during the first morning session included:

• Seven Roles of Effective CIOs http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,2103568,00.asp
• What Does It Take to Be Effective
• In a nutshell, a CIO is about…
• Top IT Issues; Results from the 2007 Educause Current Issues Survey http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/TopTenITIssues2007/40702
• Key IT Governance Questions
• Required Elements of an IT Structure http://weblog.gartner.com/weblog/docs/Evolving_Governance.pdf
• IT Strategic Planning
• IT Program Management

An IT leaders “ecosystem” includes strategic planning, governance, and project/portfolio management. Strategic plan sets the vision, but needs focus! Governance gives focus, but needs structured execution. Project/Portfolio management gives structured execution. And needs communication to hold it all together.

Examples of Governance Structure and Principles
Need an IT steering Committee as well as IT Architecture and Infrastructure committee, Non-Academic IT Systems, Academic IT Systems, as well as Ad Hoc committees as needed.

The panelist then discussed various case studies about funding issues, disaster & business continuity planning, and identity and access management.

I bookmarked various electronic resources they referred to @ my delicious page with the tag “cio.”

December 12 2007 | Posted in Campus Technology