New CIO

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THE CHALLENGE

The first days as new CIO set the baseline and tone for your future tenure. As a digital leader, it may seem obvious to focus on technology first, but your focus should be on networking, understanding, and crafting and executing the right plan.

YOUR FOCUS IN THE FIRST 90 DAYS

One of the most important characteristics of CIOs is to understand their environment and its interests, to communicate.

BUILD RELATIONSHIPS

100%

COLLECT INSIGHTS

80%

CREATE A PLAN

80%

FIX EVERYTHING

10%

BE THE SMARTEST

10%

TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS

10%

DAYS -30 - 0

Prepare

Learn about the company and industry, competition, key players within the company, social media and current PR issues, articles about your predecessor, available financial figures — everything about what and who drives your next company.

DAYS 0 - 30

Build Relations

A new CIO needs to understand the business and it's top leaders target. What is the CEO focused on? What are the top priorities now? ... next year? How is technology seen? Understanding this will enable you to craft the right plans.

DAYS 30 - 60

Get an Overview

What was the latest strategy? What are your capabilities and portfolio? Do you know your budget, capacities, skills, and external suppliers? How is the architectural state, what are the core processes, and how compliant is your organization?

DAYS 60 - 90

Culture & Empowerment

Driving change is all about people. Work with the Chief HR Officer to identify and implement the necessary cultural change, such as moving away from hoarding information and silos toward transparency and collaboration.

DAYS 90 - 120

Create Transparency

Communication is key. Create a common view and language — for IT and at the interfaces to business. Make decision-relevant data transparent to facilitate communication and improve the overall quality of decision making.

DAYS 120 - 150

Manage the Dependencies

Align strategy with capabilities and portfolio, budget and capacity with run and change issues, projects, products and services with current and future architectural state, taking into account compliance guidelines.

DAYS 150 - 180

Establish a Fast Execution

Intensify relationships with businesses by providing fast and reliable execution. This will help you gain trust and influence. Identify allocation conflicts early and resolve them with the next quarter in mind.

"All decision-relevant data is made available to everyone to enable a speaking common language."

"Only decisive data is gathered to ensure having up-to-date data and to avoid information proliferation."

"Base decision-making on data to empower good decisions and enable learning from past decisions."

Transfer decision-making power to those who value it most to increase decision-making speed, quality and acceptance within teams."

Voriger

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