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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@15m no one care about TIS people that know the business. Sorry - it’s the way the world works. Enbridge is the type of place where your title in the company gives you the license to be the expert. Regardless of whether you are not.
Besides, SME culture, and its stupid acronym have been ki-ling engagement for decades. It is symptomatic of a broken system. The highest performers in the business with the most knowledge use excel. That’s all.
Stop acting like TIS means anything to the company. Stick to keyboards and mice … no one cares whether you know more than the business people you support. He-l the business people don’t even care, and their management and the directors. Just do what everyone else does - get your money and go homes every day. If you think anyone cares about data and apps …
I just want to see the org changes that are coming. Expecting it to be drastic.
@OP well he did put the final pin to the Lab now didn’t he? So that’s something but yuh haven’t seen much otherwise.
@x6 lol the idea that someone's judgment becomes valuable the moment they join a business unit, and worthless again when they leave, is absurd. Expertise belongs to the person, not the org chart box they sit in.
Would Scott's strategic insight suddenly become less valuable the moment he moves to a central function? That kind pure arrogance is rampant in LP and exactly what creates silos.
@nv I’ve worked in GDS and LP, and I can say with confidence that certain TIS employees are far more critical to maintaining our operations than some of the underperforming staff within the business units.
@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.