the path to cio
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View the webinar with commentary and questions here: http://www.castsoftware.com/news-events/event/path-to-cio?gad=ss Justin Cerilli, a leader in Russell Reynolds Associates CIO recruitment practice, discusses the emerging must-have competencies businesses look for when hiring IT executives and how you can position yourself for a future in technology leadership.TRANSCRIPT
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Our Speakers
Justin Cerilli
Financial Services & Information
Officers Practices
Russell Reynolds Associates
Lev Lesokhin
Vice President
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Evolution of the CIO Role
How CIOs Spend Their Time
Key Competencies for best-in-class CIOs
Career Paths to the CIO
Agenda
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The Evolution of the CIO
Reactive
Then…
Tactical
IT-Focused
Proactive
Strategic
Business-Focused
Now…
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The Evolution of the CIO
THEN… NOW…
Reporting Line: CFO CEO, COO, CAO
Responsibilities:
• IT Infrastructure
• IT Performance
• Cost reduction
• Corporate center IT
• Shared Services
• Outsourcing
• Business productivity
enhancement
• Systems integration
• Business performance
• Customer insights
• IT Performance
Metrics: • Timeliness
• Cost • Business KPIs
Key
Competencies:
• Technical Skills
• Hands-On Delivery
• Relationships and
Influencing
• Strategic and Business
Acumen
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Key Competencies
Category Competency Description
EXEC
UTI
ON
Results Oriented
Delivers on IT initiatives faster and cheaper, and with more transparency to the business.
Keeps business objectives in mind when making resource and capital allocation decisions.
Establishes management and financial reporting systems to track expenses and ensure that milestones and
schedules are met.
Data Driven Keeps up to date with leading edge developments in technology and the industry.
Gathers candid intelligence on competitors and how they leverage technology to their benefit.
Decision-Making Makes tough decisions when needed. Is able to make decisions under conditions of high
uncertainty/ambiguity.
Replaces under-performers
INFL
UEN
CE
Organizational Influence
Involves and gains commitment of key stakeholders early.
Pushes new enterprise system implementations to be accompanied by business process reengineering to
help the organization maximize the benefits of the new system.
Communication
Makes the complex simple. Uses analogies/examples to communicate I/T and business process
improvement initiatives.
Helps educate senior management on how technology can create or extend competitive advantage.
Creates an effective I/T governance model allowing the business to weigh in on which projects get funded.
STR
ATE
GY
Establishing Vision & Direction
Acts in advance of the market to position the IT organization for the future.
Creates an I/T vision for the future that reflects his/her understanding of the changing marketplace and the
way I/T can create competitive advantage.
Strategic Thinking Regularly re-thinks the value chain in order to make the value I/T provides more compelling
Understands what competitors are building towards and how they are using technology as a competitive
advantage
TEA
M
LEA
DER
SHIP
Creating A High-Performance
Climate
Champions new ideas that promise significant opportunities for improvement, regardless of their source.
Publicly celebrates the achievement of key milestones; recognizes all who contributed.
Building Talent Sponsors people for challenging first-time assignments to prepare them for broader roles.
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Application Developer
Manager:
Application Development
Director / VP: Application
Development
Chief Information
Officer
Consultant Enterprise PMO Leader
Director / VP: Application
Development
Chief Information
Officer
Marketing Director / VP: Application
Development
Chief Information
Officer
Finance Director / VP: Application
Development
Chief Information
Officer
CIO Career Paths
Because you can’t manage what you don’t measure
Actionable Application Intelligence for IT Executives
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Market leader in Software Analysis & Measurement
Ambitious
Mission
Rock Solid
Foundation
Market Leader
Introduce fact-based transparency into application development and
sourcing to transform it into a management discipline
Broad market presence in Europe, North America and India
Strongly endorsed by software industry gurus and long term investors
Over $100 million of investment in R&D, driven by top talent in
computer science and software engineering
Pioneer and recognized market leader since 1999
CAST Research Labs the world’s largest R&D facility dedicated to the
science of software analysis & measurement (SAM)
Cool Vendor in Application Services “CAST metrics have become the de facto standard for measuring the quality
and productivity of deliveries” - Helen Huntley, Research VP, Gartner
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CAST dashboards, reports & benchmarks
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CAST Highlight
Portfolio Analysis Size
Complexity
Risk
Technical debt estimation
Zero Deployment No centralized source
code collection
Portal results
Full analysis report
CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Risk Drivers
Robustness
Performance
Security
Cost Drivers
Transferability
Changeability
Alerts, trending, root cause analysis
Discovery Portal
Automated
App Blueprint
Discover, modernize
and change
applications
Function Point Manager
• Automated
FP counts
• Technical
Sizing
• Effort
Estimation
Function Point Changes Due to a Sequence of Change Requests
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
0 50 100 150 200
Cumulative Effort (Staff Hours)
# F
un
cti
on
Po
ints
1 5 2 3 4
Benchmarking Services
Compare to industry
business process
and technology
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10%
90%
of downtime caused by
8% of system-level
defects!
Sources: Li, et al. (2011). Characteristics of multiple component defects and architectural hotspots: A large system case study. Empirical
Software Engineering, 16 (5), 667-702. M. Leszak, et al. (2000). A case study of root cause defect analysis. Proceedings of the 22nd
International Conference on Software Engineering. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 428-437.Economics of Software Quality,
Jones & Bonsignour; Software Defect Analysis, An Empirical Study of Causes and Costs in the IT Industry, Kristiansen, NTNU; CAST
Report on Application Software Health (CRASH) 2012, Curtis, Sappidi, & Szynkarskii.
Focus on the software risk that matters to business
Unit-
Level
Flaws
System-
Level
Flaws
% of
apps
defects
% of
repair
effort
92%
8%
52%
48%
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Opinions
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“CAST has the potential to change the application services market in a significant way.” Cool Vendors in Application Services, by Helen Huntley, VP Gartner Research
“Large organizations derive considerable benefit from CAST, the leading product of its type.” Technology Audit, by Alan Rodger, Principal Analyst
“CAST should be used to calculate the base metrics of the software quality SLA”
Steve Hall, Managing Director. TPI Application Outsourcing Practice
“Leadership and core competence in software measurement from an engineering perspective”
Melinda Ballou, Research Director for ALM, 2011
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“In God we trust.
All others bring data”
Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Father of Quality
Management and Lean Thinking Master
“Applying the principles
of lean manufacturing
to ADM can increase
productivity by 20 to 40
percent while improving
the quality and speed
of execution.”
Ranjit Tinaikar, Principal,
Head of NA IT Management Practice
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Because what gets measured gets done
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Contact Information
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