Thoughts on the new CIO?
I was expecting big things but haven’t seen much.
Is he cautious or doesn’t know what needs to change?
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@x6 “Most corporate IT strategies start and end with office products”
I doubt this. But if that were true, you are reinforcing the OPs point that there should be a quality corporate IT strategy for Enbridge. If there is one, I’ve not seen it. What is TIS planning for the BUs other than paying for software and replacing keyboards?
CIOs are obsolete. Corporate IT or TIS are obsolete - a relic of 90s 2000 era budgets to cater to unsophisticated VPs and Presidents and their inability to adapt to a new way of working.
Most corporate IT strategies start and end with office products. No shame in that - we can all stop faking we care about tech if we all just realize excel, PowerPoint and word run corporate America. Salesforce, Oracle and sap will tell you otherwise - but they are just trying to sell products.
Time to move on we are far past the days of the emergence of computer in the 80s.
Nah , there’s a middle ground here. Yes, TIS is there to support the business and help it succeed, but that doesn’t mean just taking orders - we’ve seen how that plays out.
The business sets what it’s trying to achieve. The CIO needs to set a direction for how tech actually supports that in a way that’s secure, efficient, and sustainable. If thats missing, TIS ends up just reacting to requests, and things get more complex and more expensive over time, not less.
If we really care about costs as much as leaders have been saying, it’s not translating to this approach with more tools and toys going out to play with and not backed by value.
@ay TIS is a cost intended to enable the business to make more money, nothing more. The past vision of absorbing all free cashflow has thankfully been ki-led so we can retain the money we make. That is a real vision
@ay yes everyone knows every good company should have its strategy dictated by IT
I suspect he doesn’t know. Were you at the town hall? He’s been on the job for almost a year and doesn’t know what our Op Model is, talking about verticals and horizontals. His vision for TIS is to take orders from the business and get out of their way. Put another way, he has no vision.