10 Strategi CIO di tahun 2013

Ten Strategic CIO priorities for 2013

Summary: The best list I have seen on issues facing innovative CIOs for the coming year.

By Michael Krigsman for IT Project Failures | September 27, 2012 -- 14:22 GMT (22:22 SGT)

Young CIO Texting Her Staff (in Technicolor) about Innovation (photo by Michael Krigsman)

Most analyst firms release a yearly review of CIO priorities; you've seen them, long lists of application areas and product categories. The analysts who compile these lists generally want to help vendors target the most lucrative markets and encourage CIOs to hire the author. Yeah, self-serving lists are alive and well.

Given the usual tedium of these CIO priority lists, I was pleased when Bob Evans, senior vice-president of communications for Oracle Corp, alerted me to his take on this well-worn topic. Instead of a boring list showing endless software and hardware spending statistics, Bob developed a meaningful collection of strategy areas for innovative CIOs.

Here is Bob Evan's list of "Top 10 Strategic CIO Issues For 2013:"

1. Simplify IT and Transform Your Spending: Kick the 80/20 Budget Habit
2. Lead the Social Revolution: Drive the Social-Enabled Enterprise
3. Unleash Your Company’s Intelligence: Create the Enterprise-Wide Opportunity Chain
4. Embrace the Engagement Economy: Merge the Back Office and the Front Office into the Customer Office
5. Future-Proof Your IT Architecture
6. Upgrade “Cloud Strategy” to “Business Transformation Enabled by the Cloud”
7. Transform Big Data into Big Insights, Big Vision, and Big Opportunities
8. Preside over a Shotgun Wedding: Systems of Record Marry Systems of Engagement
9. Lead with Speed: CIO as Chief Acceleration Officer
10. Bend the Value Curve: More Innovation, Less Integration

Let me be clear: Bob's list is great. Instead of a litany telling people how to spend money, this collection describes the goals and issues that help a CIO drive value in today's world. For many CIO's, these points represent the future path forward; when I talk with innovative CIOs -- the best and most forward thinking -- it's obvious the issues are exciting because they hold the key to really helping drive benefit to the company.

Anyone reading this blog regularly knows I prescribe the following advice to CIOs who want to deliver innovative results to their organization:

• Innovation starts with capability. Begin by delivering basic IT projects and services with excellence. If your projects are always late and users hate IT, then you need to clean house. You can only achieve the credibility needed to drive innovation if your team has the capability to execute core IT mandates with skill and confidence.
• IT value requires listening. Always remember that IT provides a service to the business. As with any service, success depends on communication, understanding, and willingness to adapt to changing business conditions. Many (and I mean MANY) CIOs and IT departments do not understand the nuances of listening and talking to line of business counterparts. To become a strategic, you must learn to listen well; trust me, that's a fact.
• Innovation means transformation. Innovation and business value always require change; it requires envisioning a tomorrow in which we do things differently and better than today. As CIO, your most important job is helping lead the business in change and innovation. If the business isn't ready, which may be likely, then your challenge becomes helping preparing the ground for future change.

If you read the strategic priorities list described above, you'll see it is consistent with the perspective of CIO value and transformation I often present in this blog. Adopting a strategic perspective takes time and effort; do not expect overnight results. However, with the right intention you can and will develop the skills to be a great CIO and leader. 

SunGard Highlights Ten Key Trends Driving Risk and Data Initiatives in Energy & Utilities

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Austin Morris, managing partner of SunGard Global Services’ energy practice, said, “In the energy and utilities industries, participants must contend with dramatic growth in volumes of information due to the growing number of instruments, exchanges and markets as well as the increasing granularity of data. They must also prepare their infrastructures for changes in stakeholder oversight and regulation at a time of great uncertainty.  Energy traders, producers and utilities must be able to mitigate the risk and cost of business today, by focusing on managing information more efficiently, ensuring higher data accuracy and quality, and providing timely assessment of positions and risk.”
Ten trends driving trading, risk and data management initiatives in the energy and utilities industry are:
Trading
1. Energy companies need better access to liquidity in order to enhance margins and reduce risk
2. Global demand and major changes in energy markets are causing greater business challenges in terms of growth, investment and recruitment
3. Increasing cost and competition require better transparency, efficiency and information management
4. The need to control costs and optimize capital is driving operational efficiency as a top priority
Risk & regulation
5. Dodd-Frank, CFTC and other regulators globally are greatly impacting industry participants by increasing regulatory oversight and reporting requirements
6. New proposed capital reporting and clearing requirements also will affect a large number of participants by requiring modified trading behaviors
7. Price volatility and aging infrastructures are making risk management more challenging, driving increased reinvestment in technology
Data management
8. Growing complexities in the industry have caused an explosion of systems and data
9. The increased volumes and complexity of data is driving demand for smarter data mining to reduce cost and increase accuracy
10. Producers and utilities are seeking smarter technologies to increase efficiency, from the field to the CEO

Jill Feblowitz, vice president and practice director, IDC Energy Insights, said, “Energy players are faced with unprecedented challenges, including a slow economic recovery, flat energy prices, and mixed messages on regulations. Information management, smart grid technologies and other business intelligence approaches will help participants improve their ability to manage change, reduce cost and risk, and enhance efficiencies in operations, delivery and service.”
SunGard Podcast:  Data, Regulation & Risk: Turning Key Challenges into Rewards
SunGard Blogs:
Doug Wendler: Uncovering opportunity from the avalanche of data
John Doran: What is behind the recent rise in energy prices?
Customer Videos:
Krishnan Kasiviswanathan, chief risk officer, NRG Energy
Roy Goodman, director of Information Technology, PPL Energy Plus
Drew Rankin, general manager, Energy Supply, Colorado Springs Utilities
Jody Gallagher, chief information officer, Iberdrola Renewables
Trends in Energy & Commodities: Commodity Hedge Funds – Dealing with Liquidity, Market, Credit and Operational Risk, by Leslie Barbagallo, senior vice president, SunGard’s Kiodex
Is Mean Reversion Dead in the Crude Oil and Natural Gas Market?, by Rick Boesch, Ph.D., senior vice president of financial engineering at SunGard’s Kiodex
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