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Practitioners Opinion on the Role of a CTO

Created on 05/07/2008 at 02:34PM by Yogish Pai

These days there are a lot of discussions on the role of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), especially as large and small organizations are planning to leverage Information Technology in a strategic manner. As technology is changing at a very rapid pace, enterprises now have a unique ability to leverage them for providing innovative solution to leapfrog their competition. As the role of the CTO is relatively new, there are various roles CTOs play in an organization resulting in many senior executives expressing confusion about what is and should be the exact role of the CTO.

The objective of this Opinion paper to briefly describe my views on the role of the Chief Technology Officer and is roughly based on the white paper Role of the CTO: Four Models for Success by Tom Berray (Primary Author) and Raj Sampath (Secondary Author). Unlike their white paper in 2002 where they categories the CTO’s into four categories, my opinion is that in this current age CTOs need to have all these attributes.

Please click hear for the Opinion Paper.

Tags: CTO, IT Organization, Roles, SOA

SOA Begins at Home

Created on 03/12/2008 at 10:28PM by Anand Gopalan

IT Majors, Software consulting companies are no mood to catch up the race later , but rather dive as soon any technology is announced be it SOA,ESB,CEP. Do they really practise it in their own den?#*!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Key Learnings: SOA forcing IT Organizations to focus on their core competencies

Created on 02/07/2008 at 11:00AM by Yogish Pai

Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to talk to some of the IT organization in the silicon valley and am happy to report that most of them are either in the process or have already adopted SOA. By adopting SOA - it has forced the IT leadership to focus on their core competencies. Most of them are primarily focused on the fundamentals such as:

What was surprising to me was that even though most of the us early adopters have shared our key learning and best practices on blogs such as this, most IT organizations are still struggling to focus on their core competencies - such as defining the roles and responsibilities of each teams, separations of development and support teams, communicating IT goals to all teams, establishing Enterprise Architecture teams and defining and enforcing the application life cycle (services life cycle come next).

If this is the state in the heart of the hi-tech industry, woder how it is out there in other industries? It would great to get the feedback on what the rest of you are observing .

Tags: best Practice, IT Organization, SOA Adoption | 1 comment

Blueprinting Information Architecture and BPM

Created on 12/04/2007 at 06:08PM by Yogish Pai

Following my blog on Key Learning: Blueprinting Information Architecture is key to successful adoption of SOA one of the feedback was Don't we need to define the detailed business process to identify potential service candidates?

My response to that is No and please click here for more details.

Tags: Blueprinting Information Architecture, BPM, CDI, Data Governance, SOA, Strategic IT

Changing role of C-Level Executives

Modified on 11/30/2007 at 10:06AM by Yogish Pai

The business environment is becoming more complex, unpredictable and constantly changing. In the near future IT will no longer be the way it is today. Business and Technology integration will be a necessity for business to stay competitive. To achieve this, the CFOs role is expected to become increasing important as described in this video.

Please click here for the video (resolved the issue with the link)

Tags: CIO, CFO, COO, SOA, Strategic IT | 1 comment