What is leadership?
Leadership is the art and science of motivating and guiding people towards achieving set goals and intended outcomes.
Leadership involves setting a vision, making strategic decisions, and influencing others to commit to the vision and realizing it by taking action and contributing to the effort.
Leadership is not merely management, it requires the ability to foresee and navigate through challenges, providing clarity, purpose, and steady guidance to show the organization the path to success.
What is enterprise technology?
Enterprise technology encompasses the tools and systems that businesses use to manage workflows and end-to-end business processes to deliver value to customers.
Tools and software for resource planning, customer relationship management, data analysis, knowledge management, and other applications enable enterprises to achieve operational excellence.
By providing a technical backbone to support the strategic objectives and capabilities of an organization, enterprise technology enables enterprises to compete in an ever-changing digital world.
What is enterprise technology leadership?
Unlike traditional tactical IT management, enterprise technology leadership provides strategic direction and holistic oversight of the entire organization’s technology architecture.
Technology leadership at the enterprise level involves finding novel and effective ways to address business challenges and aligning with organizational goals and strategy.
It requires a deep understanding not only of the software, hardware, and systems deployed across the organization, but also of the domains, capabilities, and business processes that underpin the enterprise in order to guide through rapid business, technology, market, and geopolitical change.
How can enterprise technology leadership expertise be applied?
What enterprise technology leadership capabilities do I bring to the table?
Decision Support
Decision support is about providing deep and specialized knowledge to aid in navigating the complexities of the modern enterprise.
Decision support leverages systems thinking, analytics, and strategic insights to inform decisions, solve business challenges, and understand the tradeoffs involved.
Providing technology support for making decisions enables choices that anticipate trends, assess risks, and address the potential impact of decisions across the organization to ensure alignment with global business objectives.
Executive Advisory
Executive advisory offers C-suite executives and board members expert counsel on technology strategy and enterprise architecture, acting as a trusted voice of reason.
Delivering insights to executives involves raising issues that others may not be comfortable communicating, providing objective analysis, and bridging gaps between technology initiatives and broader business strategies.
Having a trusted advisor on the team ensures a long-term orientation towards enterprise architecture and technology strategy to guide decisions and set clear direction towards the goals and objectives of the organization.
M&A Due Diligence
Mergers and acquisitions demand rigorous due diligence to navigate regulatory requirements, integration challenges, and timelines successfully.
Evaluating technology assets, capabilities and systems in addition to resource and cultural compatibility requires a broad and deep set of technical, business, and stakeholder relationship skills to manage the pressures, complexities, and constraints of such high-stakes investments.
Organizing the chaos of rapid system, application, and data integration and migration, balanced with effective communications, diplomacy, and trust, ensures acquired assets and resources are up and running and creating value on day one.
Team Development
Developing cohesive and high performing technology teams is no easy feat in today’s chaotic and highly competitive environment of hiring and retaining team members.
Attracting and nurturing talent requires a supportive culture aligned around creating the conditions for high performers to find purpose and meaning in their work, while contributing high levels of value to something greater than themselves.
Creating an environment of trust creates feelings of safety and security, allowing teams to flourish by experimenting and iterating to find innovative solutions to even the toughest of business challenges, but requires patience, love, and a deep understanding of the incentives, politics, mental models, and personalities involved.
