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1. Value Studio 37 The Evolved & Evolving IT Leader “CIO Issues Workshop” November 6, 2014 Amelia Island, Florida Mark Rothko, 150

2. “New Animals” exercise Work Shop Question Cluster #1 The board is concerned about the possibility of the company’s main products being digitally disrupted and is considering hiring a CDO and/or consultants to help craft a digital strategy. What should you do?

3. Report Backs

4. What Patterns/Trends [if any] do you perceive in your responses?

5. Quick AudienceJumpball 90 second exercise Thoughts and/or Experiences with New C’s [e.g., Chief Data Officer, Chief Analytics Officer, Chief Data Officer?]

6. Evolutionary Bonus Question a number of biologists are now returning to Darwin’s idea that speciation occurs most often through competition in open spaces Is the arrival of new C’s a case of leadership speciation in response to the environment?

7. “New Traits” exercise Work Shop Question Cluster #2 In your groups, please discuss and be prepared to report back regarding new leadership traits you and/or your organization have evolved over the past 5 to 7 years?

8. Report Backs

9. What Patterns/Trends [if any] do you perceive in your responses?

10. Evolutionary Forces early humans were at some point forced by ecological circumstances into more cooperative lifeways Tomasello, 4.

11. #1 Skill Set in the Future… “Findability” Stephen Laster, CIO- Harvard Business School

12. x Modern Day Smoke Signals I met a librarian years ago who said  his job was to “start conversations.” I love that. Jeff Goldenson, Library Director Olin College of Engineering; formerly head of Harvard Library Innovation Lab & LABRARY

13. Quick Jump Ball At your table quickly come up with one or two examples: How long does it take -typically to impart a new leadership trait to a direct report?

14. The Evolutionary Time Scale Bernard Wood, Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction [Location 260]

15. David Robson, New Scientist [20 March 2012]

16. “What Doesn’t Change” exercise Work Shop Question Cluster #3 What leadership traits NEVER Go out of style?

17. Report Backs

18. What Patterns/Trends [if any] do you perceive in your responses?

19. 90 second exercise Leadership Bonus Question Every species in the zoo and the aquarium has a head and two eyes. Call these species “Everythings.” Complete this sentence, “Every modern IT leader must…

20. Change what you measure. Change what you make visible. Change what you celebrate. Lessons For the “Evolved” and “Evolving” Leader Roy Rosin Head of Innovation [emeritus] Intuit

21. Culture 101 90 second exercise How does your organization measure culture? What metrics do we use?

22. Work Shop Question Cluster #4 3 Minute exercise Please describe the environment 5 years from now we will have to adapt to?

23. Report Backs

24. What Patterns/Trends [if any] do you perceive in your responses?

25. This fall, the University of Southern California is opening a new program: “The degree is in disruption,” the university announced. Jill Lepore, “The Disruption Machine,” New Yorker [23 June 2014] HTTP://WWW.NEWYORKER.COM/MAGAZINE/2014/06/23/THE-DISRUPTION-MACHINE

26. What Will We be Talking about in the future? In The Cycles of American History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. explains that what anchors some organizations in the past and launches other enterprises into the future is their response to the  “detonating issue” of the day.  

27. Exercise In 2015 what do you imagine will be the  “detonating issue” of the day for leaders? In 2020?

28. To change the culture, change the conversation. Seth Godin Thornton May [New Orleans 2012]

29. Work Shop Question Cluster #5 90 second exercise How will the role of the CISO change in the next 5 years?

30. Evolution Bonus Question A 90 second exercise In 5 years, security will comprise what percent of the IT budget?

31. Evolution Bonus Question B 90 second exercise In 5 years, by what new metrics will security be measured?

32. Changing Metrics In a hyper-connected and social media oriented workplace, we may soon bear witness to a profound shift of emphasis away from the industry’s touchstone metrics of occupancy/vacancy/density and area per person to new metrics that chart effectiveness, satisfaction and wellbeing in the workplace. Philip Tidd, Gensler

33. Work Shop Question Cluster #6 3 Minute exercise How will CIOs in the future measure how “evolved” their IT organization is ?

34. What Patterns/Trends [if any] do you perceive in your responses?

35. Work Shop Question #7 3 Minute exercise How will organizations Shop/Buy technology Products and Services in the future?

36. 90 second exercise Work Shop Question Cluster #8 A board member taps you on the shoulder and asks for a five minute explanation of “the cloud” What do you tell him?

37. The Cloud“It’s safe if you know what you are doing” Paul "Rocket" Hornick Left Wing David "Cupid" Monroe Right Wing

38. Work Shop Question #9 3 Minute exercise What will the analytics organization of the future look like?

39. x Über Themes 2012-2013 x What will the analytics organization of the future look like? http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/Vocus/vocus-brian-solis-ebookfinal/1.