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The fruITion Strategy®
The End Game and the Journey
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As consumers and businesses develop into
experts at exploiting technology
the CIO's destiny is to emerge as the executive director of investments in
change |
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fruITion Strategy® is a journey through four generations of
Corporate Strategy for IT that executives and
their IT leaders travel together.
Each generation of strategy involves a change in focus and the
primary role of the CIO's team.
What does the
journey look like?
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Generation |
Focus |
CIO Team |
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Business Portfolio for
Investing in Change |
Investments Managers and
'Total Enterprise' Architects |
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Investment Plans
Involving IT |
Business experts in how people
create value from IT |
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IT Spending Budget |
Quasi-suppliers of
IT systems and services |
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Technology Roadmap |
Creators and integrators of IT |
How to Know Which
Generation You Are
The generations refer to how your organisation's executives behave
towards IT. That may be different from the generation represented by
any written strategy that you have. If so, your organisation's
actual generation of Corporate Strategy, today, is
the one that most describes how executives
treat IT. If you'd like help to interpret the signals, and
deciding what to do as a result, a
short burst of mentoring is the answer.
The Ultimate Goal of a Corporate Strategy for IT: Not to Have one
When an organisation becomes an
expert
customer of IT - truly knowing how to create maximum value from investing
in change and IT, and to optimise IT spending - then a separate
strategy for IT no longer adds value. So the ultimate goal of a corporate strategy for IT is not to have one.
As the journey progresses,
the destiny of the CIO emerges,
together with the company's senior IT specialists, as corporate leaders in structural
innovations (true Enterprise Architecture) and in the portfolio management of
Investments in Change.
How Chris Helps People Reach this Goal
Chris
works with organisations as a
hands-on
strategist and mentor in short, sharp bursts, helping to rapidly
formulate and execute their next-generation corporate strategy for IT,
using his years of experience and his unique frameworks and techniques.
He also helps them to avoid strategic dead-ends - for example, focusing on
a particular generation of strategy for too long, or attempting to miss
out a generation.
As Chris explains,
"My purpose is to help companies grow their own expertise, as quickly
and efficiently as possible, in
corporate strategies for investing in change and IT. So I'm always looking for
easier and better ways to transfer skills and knowledge - both between me and the people I'm privileged to work with, and between
them and their wider business community."
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