Re-assessing Your CIO Core Team
Tuning up your CIO Role-Type capability, balance and teamwork
The CIO Role-Types model defines four distinct CIO career tracks, each with their specific strengths and weaknesses. Knowing which track you are on is an important first step in a CIO’s re-assessment of personal capability but the full potential of the model can only be realized by a CIO team that capitalizes on the CIO’s innate strengths and compensates for his role-type weaknesses. This re-assessment process addresses the core team and determines the extent to which the whole team capabilites are balanced and optimised.
The CIO’s core team needs to be able to lead and drive relationships, policy and delivery in three separate domains: demand, supply and governance. Because the CIO role-types exhibit different strength and weakness profiles these need to be reflected in the mix of team strengths. A fully optimised CIO core team will be able to:
Balance demand and supply to provide reliable, cost- effective service.
Build and manage long-term relationships to maintain competitive service levels.
Engage in the top-level debates on market positioning, service development and strategy.
Deliver fully compliant, world-class governance.
Every member of the CIO core team is a senior IT executive, frequently running large teams, and operating with global or regional responsibilities. In many smaller businesses they would already be CIOs in their own right. The team assessment applies a shortened form of the CIO role-type / character diagnostic to each team member and compares the resulting profiles with an agreed map of your functional requirements in the three primary domains of demand, supply and governance. Individual results are fed back to each team member and the team profiles are reported to the CIO, and team if required.
When the re-assessment process is complete every core team member will understand which IT executive career-track they are on and will have a far deeper insight into how their personal characteristics will contiue to play out in this team and their future roles. This often becomes a platform for profound personal career re-appraisal and creates a significant new opportunity for team building and performance transformation. It will deliver and agenda for personal and group development that will be impossible to ignore.
Act now to find out how you can use the CIO core team re-assessment diagnostic to create a platform for performance transformation. You owe it to yourself, your colleagues and your stakeholders to develop your team’s capability to intervene and give leadership in the primary domains of demand, delivery and governance. Call Brinley on 07973 745 640 for a confidential discussion about how you can access the service with its performance guarantees.
