October 19, 2005

Researcher - Burson-Marsteller

I've posted this because I find it to be VERY interesting; The research and findings from BM are stupendous and a warm - special thanks to Moon Kim for his introduction.

I can only reply with a hopeful thrust that myopic IT deficient visionaries are taught to dead-end.

Perhaps, we as IT pupils should understand that it is in our best interests by being more expansive, thinking globally, encouraging high-level strategic thinking in ALL business venues and individual corporate roles.

Only then will CEO's understand that there is a technical process thread that allows business to compete and succeed. Information Technology is that Golden Thread which allows Information, (truly priceless) to be managed for Corporate growth!

Thanks for Reading-
Lyle K'ang, MBA/IM
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Hi Lyle,

I came across your blog on IT-related news. Your entry past March, title "Chicken and Egg" particularly peeked my interest. Given your subject terrain, I thought this might be of an interest to you.

I am a researcher at Burson-Marsteller, a global communications agency. We just finished working on a study regarding the IT Deficit in the world's largest companies. We found out that only 8% of Fortune Global 500 companies have a current/former CIO on their boards. We also compared the top 25 companies in Fortune Global 500 to the top 25 companies in India's Economic Times and found that the top Indian companies were 10 times more likely than the top Fortune companies to have CIOs on their boards.

Here is some more information, in case you might be interested.

http://www.burson-marsteller.com/pages/news/releases/2005/press-10-19-2005

Please do not hesitate to reach out if necessary.

All the best,

Moon Kim

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Posted by Moon_Kim to Business Strategy - "Superior Technical Knowledge With A 'No Quit' Attitude!" at 10/19/2005 02:33:09 PM
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HERE IS THE REPLY TO THAT CIO ARTICLE:
Monday, March 21, 2005

Chicken and Egg


Readers Viewpoint
Chicken and Egg
Posted: MAR 21, 2005 11:01:50 PM http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=3266

Enterprise Architecture must belong to an IT Emerging Technology group that has real interest from all the ’C’s.

The interesting inclusion of this practice is to have an ’IT Network Infrastructure Business Systems Manager’ belong and interface with these groups to teach business strategy and IT convergence together.

When technical groups meet cross-functional business groups, teaching begins. Architects’ step in and teach high-level thinking and process. Business Systems Managers teach process management to shore-up and encourage IT/IS specialists to think in broader terms-not only in granular functions.

Enterprise Architects’ then align their thinking to business processes and the CEO, albeit the Governance Board. CIO and CTOs belong to the Governance team. CIOs are asked more and more to think outward, concerning strategic and convergence alignments that equate well to CFOs and COOs responsibilties.

In a nut shell, these are the individuals that need direction in understanding what business they are in-core competencies, and ever-expansive excercises which the CIO/CTO bring to a Business/Governance Board.

It starts-by understanding the business units requests, the business of the enterprise and the ability to educate, soft skills included, everyone up and down, and through lateral points, while significantly calling for process alignment to eliminate and weaken, silo management (stove pipe) practices.

Lyle K’ang, MBA/IM
IT Business/CTO Consultant
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