What's CIO Bootcamp?

Hear Thornton May describe CIO Bootcamp and what you'll learn at this special program at Interop New York.
CHAIRPERSON:
Thornton May,
Futurist, Executive Director and Dean, IT Leadership Academy
POSSE MEMBERS:
Bruce Barnes,
CIO Emeritus, Nationwide Financial Services
Karlin Sue Bohnert,
Chief Development Officer, VP Emeritus - Abercrombie & Fitch
Louis Gutierrez,
CIO Emeritus – Commonwealth of Massachusetts; CIO Emeritus Harvard-Pilgrim Healthcare
Joe Puglisi,
Vice President and CIO,
EMCOR Group, Inc.
SPONSOR SPEAKERS:
Michael Hyatt,
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, BlueCat Networks
Richard Hyatt,
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, BlueCat Networks
Alan Saldich,
VP, Product Marketing and Alliances, Riverbed, Inc.

CIO Boot Camp

Monday-Tuesday, September 15-16
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

A big part of CIO success is interoperability – not just technical interoperability [which is why many CIOs fail] – but human interoperability [which is why great CIOs succeed]. Successful IT leaders understand the human drama which is work, becoming adept at choreographing tribal behaviors toward desired outcomes. Leadership was never more important or more difficult.

Centuries of educational research and decades of experience at the world’s top business schools demonstrate unambiguously that the best [and most cost effective] way to avoid making mistakes is to learn from those who made them in the first place. The CIO Posse is a group of been-there-done-that C-class executives from billion dollar plus organizations who will share with you the mistakes they have made and roll-up-their-sleeves in personalized workshops to demonstrate how these lessons apply in your world.

The CIO Bootcamp blends ahead-of-the-curve, relevant to you leadership research with fresh-from-top-of-tech-trenches practical know-how giving participants a fully rounded tool kit to meet the challenges of the next generation IT organization.

DAY-BY-DAY OVERVIEW

Day One

9:00 – 9:45 Opener and Level Set
  • Foundational/Tone Setting Stories
  • Participant Introductions
  • Group Exercises & Report Backs
 Thornton May
9:45 – 10:30 Tales From the Top-of-Tech
  • CIO Posse Bios [where they have been]
  • C-level 'war' stories from the trenches:
  • Why CIOs Lose Their jobs
  • Toughest Moment as an IT leader
  • What You are Proudest of
  • Lessons "on the way in and out"
 CIO Posse
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:15 IT and the 'Money' Thing
  • The Relationship with the CFO
  • How IT Budgets Really Work
 CIO Posse
11:15 – 12:00 Globalization:
  • From the Global Village to the Global Office Building
 Alan Saldich
Riverbed
12:00 - 1:30 Working Lunch
1:30 – 2:15 Understanding Organizational Psychology:
  • Getting Inside the Heads of the 'Suits'
  • Inventory of mental models at work across the organization
  • Dangerous points of delusion/irrationality/ignorance
 Thornton May
2:15 - 3:00 Getting Out of the Engine Room
  • Repositioning IT as a Strategic Player rather than a 'machine tender'
 Joe Puglisi
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00 Structured For High Performance
  • The interests behind centralization (order) and decentralization (flexibility)
  • The ways in which Services Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Planning, and other emerging technologies/methodologies, are shifting the balance of interests
  • The importance of context and timing
  • The role of "centers of excellence" in achieving transitions
  • The importance of application inventory and architecture – even when the applications aren't yours
  • Politically avoiding the image of IT good-hygienist / empire-builder, while arguing the case of IT order
 Louis Gutierrez
4:00 - 4:30 Taming the Enterprise Software Beast
  • Large Scale deployments & avoiding the 'career chipper'
  • What the Subscription Research Firms DON'T Tell You About ERP
 CIO Posse
4:30 - 5:00 Managing IT 'Vegetables':
  • Alignment, Compliance, Governance, & Infrastructure
  • What it is/Why it matters
  • Why it is difficult
  • Explaining it to the 'Suits'
 CIO Posse
5:00 – 6:00 Sponsor Reception

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Day Two

9:00 - 9:45 Managing Vendors
  • Extracting full value from vendor partners
  • Vendor management strategies
  • Vendor management program and metrics
  • Initiating and terminating vendor relations
 CIO Posse
9:45 - 10:30 Pathways to Pain:
  • How First-Time CIOs Get In Trouble
 Karlin Bohnert
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 No IP, No Network, No Business Blue Cat
11:30 - 12:00 Managing Personal/Social Networks:
  • The evolving science of human relationships
  • Identifying Key Players
  • Hubs
  • Pulse Takers
  • Gate Keepers
 Thornton May
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 Managing the People of IT
  • Relationship with HR department
  • Biggest challenge/worst moments
  • Retaining and attracting the 'right' kind of IT worker
  • Best practices for managing high performance IT professionals
  • Managing the 'cultural thing'
  • Thoughts about the IT workforce of the future
 CIO Posse
2:15 - 3:00 IT Strategic Planning Processes
  • Building IT road maps
  • Getting executives to think strategically about IT
 CIO Posse
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00 IT and Innovation
  • Frameworks
  • Tools
  • Techniques
  • Best Practices
 Thornton May
4:00 - 4:30 CIO Posse Summation
4:30 - 5:00 Final Exam/Conclusion

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