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Follow the Bouncing Ball to Senior IT Leadership Positions Debra Allison, Joanne Kossuth, Pattie Orr October 15, 2013

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Follow the Bouncing Ball to Senior IT Leadership Positions

Debra Allison, Joanne Kossuth, Pattie Orr

October 15, 2013

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Agenda• Introductions• Why you and Why this job?• Career Options and Flexibility• Defining Future Skill Sets• Professional Development and Career Map• Dispelling leadership myths• Speed Dating and Wrap IT Up

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Welcome• Pair up and learn about each other • Be prepared to introduce each other• On the 3x5 card please write down

your next career step• The cards are numbered so we can

correlate but not identify

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Why You and Why This Job• What attribute/competency makes

you believe you would be a successful CIO or other Senior Leader?

• What is one aspect of the CIO or Senior Leadership job that you believe would be the most rewarding?

• Plan to report out a summary by table.

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Career Options and Flexibility• System Administrator as CIO aspirant

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Career Options and Flexibility

• Library Director who is an aspirant to a Deputy CIO position

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Career Options and Flexibility

• CIO aspirant to the CEO position

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Career Options and Flexibility

• Associate Director who is content where they are

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Career Options and Flexibility

• Assistant Director who is an aspirant to an Admission Dean position

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Career Options and Flexibility

• Help Desk technician who is really interested in working in the finance office

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Career Options and Flexibility

• Customer Service Manager as aspirant to an institutional advancement position

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Defining Future Leadership Skills and Competencies

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Where is the CIO Role Now?CIO

GenerationsTimeframe Primary basis for Success

CIO as Technologist

1965-1990 • Technical achievement

CIO as Aligner

1990-2008 • Technical competencies

CIO as Institutional

Strategist

2008 + • Vision, Relationships, Leadership, Communication

• Technical depth secondary

What changed in 2008?

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 “College Costs Outpace

Inflation Rate”New York Times, October 23, 2007

“Colleges entering

difficult financial

times”

USA Today, October 30, 2008

“ College Presidents Defend Rising Tuition, but Lawmakers Sound Skeptical”New York Times, September 8, 2008

“In Downturn, Families Strain to Pay Tuition”New York Times, October 16, 2008

2008 - The “New Normal”

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A Bigger Stage…From the Data Center… …to the Boardroom

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The Future CIO• How do you assess what it takes to

be a successful CIO?• What skills and competencies will the

CIO of 2015-2020 need?

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The Future Skills & Competencies

1. Adaptive Communication

2. Capture opportunities3. Change agent4. Effective collaboration &

partnership5. Emotional intelligence6. Financial management7. Institutional perspective

& understanding

8. Operational management9. Organizational innovation10. Principled negotiation &

vendor management11. Project management12. Risk management13. Strategic vision14. Trusted relationships

(Adapted from various publications, including Broadbent & Kitzis, The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda & Delivering Results.”)

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“The Future CIO” Survey Instrument

• What are the three most important competencies for “the future CIO?”

• Which single competency is the most critical of all?

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Survey Completion

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Table Discussion

“Aha!”

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Survey Results

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Teamwork and Talent Development

• Who is your team?

• The Trouble with Teamwork is……

• When is a team needed and when is it not?

•  The Five Dysfunctions of Teams

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Teamwork and Talent Development13 Ground Rules for Job Success

1.  Become a quick-change artist2.  Commit fully to your job3.  Speed up4.  Accept ambiguity and uncertainty5.  Behave like you’re business for yourself6.  Become a lifelong learner7.  Hold yourself accountable for outcomes8.  Add value9.  See yourself as a service center10.  Manage your own morale11.  Practice Kaizen12.  Be a fixer, not a finger-pointer13.  Alter your expectations

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Teamwork and Talent Development

Expert Learners• Large knowledge base of

domain specific patterns• Rapidly recognize patterns

when appear

Novice Learners• Patterns not recognized• Focused on unknowns

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Teamwork and Staff Development

• What do you and your staff need to know in five years?– Skills in transition; manage for change

• Issue#1: Updating IT Professionals’ Skills and Roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT Management and Service Delivery Models.

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Self Help Development Plan• Why Plan your Career?• If you do not have a path, any path

will get you there!

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Making a Plan• Reflect• Self Assessment• Seek Outside Input• Develop Action Steps and Goals• Repeat

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Dispelling Leadership Myths• True or False– In order to be successful in higher

education a PhD is required– Leaders are born not made– Leaders protect their power– Once at a large institution always at a

large institution (or the inverse)– If the Senior IT Leadership position

reports to the CFO you are DOA

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Dispelling Leadership Myths• CIO stands for Career is Over• IT Does Not Matter, an ode to

Nicholas Carr• Leaders tell others what to do• Share your favorite myth

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Speed Dating• Split into groups fairly equal in

number and head to one corner of the room

• Interact for 5 minutes on the changing nature of Senior IT Leadership; move onto the next corner until one round is complete.

• Share out thoughts.

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Wrap It UP• On a 3x5 card please write down

your next career step.• We will report back to the group on

the correlations of before and after.

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Tool Kit• AASA hears what’s about to disrupt schools, February 23, 2009. Clayton Christensen,

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2009/02/23/aasa-hears-whats-about-to-disrupt-schools/• Broadbent, Marianne, and Ellen S. Kitzis. The New CIO Leader: Setting the Agenda and

Delivering Results. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.• Brown, Wayne, and Polley McClure. “Women as Current and Future CIOs.” EDUCAUSE Review

Vol. 44, No. 6 (November/December 2009): 110–111, http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume44/WomenasCurrentandFutureCIOs/185416.

• Charette, Robert N. “Back to the Future: The Future Role of the CIO.” Cutter IT Journal 23, no. 1 (January 2010): 18–23.

• Chester, Timothy M. “A Roadmap for IT Leadership and the Next Ten Years.” EDUCAUSE Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2006), http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/ARoadmapforITLeadershipandtheN/157401.

• Christensen, Clayton and Curtis Johnson. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

• EDUCAUSE. “The Evolution of the CIO.” EDUCAUSE Issues Brief. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE, October 2009, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB9007.pdf .

• Goldstein, Philip J., and Judith A. Pirani. “Views of the Top: Rising IT Leaders Discuss the CIO Position in Higher Education” (Case Study 5, 2008). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2008, http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

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Tool Kit• IBM Corporation. “The New Voice of the CIO: Insights from the Global Chief

Information Officer Study.” IBM, 2009, http://ibm.com/voiceofthecio.• Jackson, Gregory A. “A CIO’s Question: Will You Still Need Me When I’m 64?” The

Chronicle Review 50, no. 21 (2004): B22, http://chronicle.com/article/A-CIOs-Question-Will-You-/27000/.

• Lambert, H. David. “The Changing Role of the CIO.” Presentation at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, Denver, November 4, 2009, http://www.educause.edu/E09+Hybrid/EDUCAUSE2009FacetoFaceConferen/TheChangingRoleoftheCIO/175759.

• Nelson, Mark R. “The CIO in Higher Education: Leadership, Competencies, Effectiveness” (Research Bulletin 22, 2003). Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2003, http://www.educause.edu/ecar.

• U.S. Department of Education. A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education; A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. (known more commonly as “The Spellings Commission Report”), 2006. http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/final-report.pdf

• Zastrocky, Michael R., and Frank Schlier. “The Higher Education CIO in the 21st Century.” EDUCAUSE Quarterly 23, no. 1 (2000): 53, 59, http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/TheHigherEducationCIOinthe21st/157054

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Tool Kit• http://

www.cio.com/webcast/739281/Dispelling_the_Top_3_Myths_for_Utilizing_Business_Analytics_to_Improve_Organizational_Processes

• http://www.cio.com/article/737778/Forrester_Survey_Data_Dispels_39_myths_39_About_Software_Industry_Trends_in_2013

• http://www.amazon.com/CIO-Perceptions-Innovative-Technology-Adoption/dp/3639082710

• http://www.avanade.com/en-us/approach/research/pages/consumerization-of-it.aspx

• http://www.cio.com/article/704943/Busting_CIO_Myths• http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0518.pdf• http://

www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Canada/Local%20Assets/Documents/Consulting/ca_en_con_CIO_and_IT_myths_010312.pdf

• http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2009/03/10/the-new-myth-of-the-cio-%E2%80%93-part-3-%E2%80%93-cio-of-the-future/