The 3 Critical Skills for Future IT leadership: Solution Focus, People, and Narrative!
Change is a given. Change brings uncertainty and opportunity. ...And, change is coming to the C-suite world of IT leadership. According to Thornton May, Traditional measures of IT are "broken." IT is more and more, becoming a team sport. There is a "trifecta" of CFO's, CMO's, and CIO.s coming together to make IT happen, almost in spite of the fact that companies have generally invested almost nothing in developing the executive potential of their IT leadership... the onus of learning the necessary leadership skills having been left on the individual who was expected to self-educate.... So great IT leaders, "Value Artists," have had to evolve through experience... the IT leader of the future will, for one thing at least, be defined by narrative (noted futurist, Thornton May).
