Gallery 2: Crafting IT's New Performance Vision - May 16, 2013

The topic of enhanced enterprise performance brings to mind one of the most often used and mis-attributed quotes of all time, “If it was easy, everyone would do it.”   However, the reality is....they don’t.

We have the gear.  In these twenty years since the Balanced Scorecard hit the scene, it has become one of the world’s most popular business tools for helping companies measure and manage their level of execution.  Newer innovations have also allowed companies to marry traditional performance measurement with enhanced analytics to drive fact-based decision-making and generate competitive advantage.  And yet, that is not enough.

All of this still requires a lot of work, and success is not guaranteed.  It still requires the proper leadership, the right performance indicators and metrics, and the appropriate technologies for of this all to work.  As a whole, we are not there yet. But some companies are. 

We began 2013 by examining some of the impediments to IT’s new performance mandate.  In this next session we will take a closer look at the vision of what is possible, and what we can learn from that. Detailed agenda

Gallery 1: IT's New Performance Mandate - March 13, 2013

If you are delighting in “doing more with less”, or if you are contentedly “keeping the lights on with Five- Nine’s precision,” you – like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s edgy fairy tale – may be falling behind.¹

The technology game has changed.  There is a new set of expectations regarding IT performance.  World-class CIOs are increasingly expected to not only grow the business; they are also expected to stimulate/orchestrate/cerebrate strategies designed to “render the competition irrelevant.”  It is time for IT to stand up and stand out.  It is time to redefine what IT is capable of achieving.  IT has become truly binary; i.e., you are either a high-performance headline, or you may be destined to be an epitaph on a career tombstone.

Throughout this year, this program series will be closely examining how ahead-of-the-curve leaders and enterprises are stepping up their game.  The new world of high performance IT is reminiscent of the harsh tooth-and-claw realities of nature:

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up.  It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.  Every morning a Lion wakes up.  It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death.  It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle….when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Join us in this first session of 2013 where we will establish an appropriate context for understanding “running” IT.

¹ "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place."
-   The Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.

Gallery 3: August 13, 2013

In both August and September we will interrogate high performance pioneers with an eye on extracting what it really takes to move from “now” to “next”.

Details to follow soon...

Gallery 4: Sept 11-12, 2013

In both August and September we will interrogate high performance pioneers with an eye on extracting what it really takes to move from “now” to “next”.

Gallery 5: December 11, 2013

In December we will examine and calibrate the processes and methodologies that will assure we remain on course, on time, and well informed during this evolutionary journey.