Facilitator: Bill Bentley

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Facilitator Bill Bentley
The CEO CIO Relationship
November 2002
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Agenda

• The ideal Information Age CEO
• The Gap
• Next meeting

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CEO Characteristics

• Hungry for change
• Clear and lasting business focus
• Believes in the importance of IT
• Invests quality time on IT matters
• Works closely with the CIO

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CEO Practices

• Scanning and Understanding New Technologies
• Forming a Vision of the Future
• Challenging IT Thinking
• Sponsoring internal and External IT Architectures
• Embedding Information Management Processes

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Sponsoring IT Architecture

• Evaluate proposals and implications
• Ensure respect for architecture standards
• Establish funds for to implement important
  features ahead of proven benefits

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CEO Practices

• Scanning and Understanding New Technologies
• Forming a Vision of the Future
• Challenging IT Thinking
• Sponsoring internal and External IT Architectures
• Embedding Information Management Processes

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Critical Processes

• How IT strategies are created
• How potential IT investment is evaluated and
  sanctioned
• How projects are set up and governed

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Becoming the Ideal CEO

• IT-oriented and IT-savvy
• Confronting Information Age future
• Executive Involvement in an IT project
• Develop potential successors with IT experience
• Learn from others

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Reference

• M. Earl and D. Feeny, How to be a CEO for the
  Information Age, Sloan Management Review, volume
  41, Winter 2001.

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Canada T2P 3H7 Phone [phone] E-mail
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• Bill Bentley
• Yogi Schulz

• Information technology related management
  consulting
• Project management and systems development
• Acting in the roles of Interim CIO or IT
  management
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• Oil and gas data management