CIO Insights for Higher Education Executives
Transition Plan for the Innovative CIO – May 16, 2016
The headline from the May, 05, 2016 CIO Magazine article shown below is of interest to every CIO and C-‐Level executive. Each year more and more executives are asking how they can help their CIO become more innovative. We have asked Michael Mathews, who has served as both a Chief Information and Chief Innovation Officer, to share his thoughts on what hinders CIO’s from being more innovative. His response is interesting and well worth the read.
CIOs are in a unique position to lead cross-‐enterprise innovation – if only they’d awaken the Force. By Richard Pastore, May 05, 2016
By Michael L. Mathews -‐ Due to my personal interests, I have always leaned toward leveraging the CIO role as an innovator. However, I realize how difficult it is for many traditional CIOs to make the transition toward being innovative throughout the enterprise (organization). I am extremely impressed with the insights by Richard Pastore who wrote the May 05, 2016 CIO Magazine article. The article lists 10 attributes that the CIO demonstrates on regular basis that naturally make them a great candidate for innovation across the enterprise. Ironically, the list of 10 attributes that make a CIO a prime candidate for innovation, are also the exact same things preventing the CIO from becoming an innovator. The reason the list works for and against innovation is simply due to the time and energy required to facilitate all the meetings, research potential solutions, and work with vendors to stay afloat in the sea of cross-‐enterprise attributes which organizations rely upon. Below is the list of 10 attributes that CIO’s generally engage with across the enterprise; shared in the CIO Magazine article – imploring CIO’s to be innovative. 1. How work gets done across the enterprise 2. The conversion path of data into information into knowledge