Tool

The IT Leadership Time Benchmarking Tool allows IT leaders to compare their time allocation to that of the most effective IT leaders and suggests changes to make them more effective.

Note

IT leaders must focus on strategy and leadership activities, and avoid spending time on most vendor management activities, managing projects, and work their employees could be doing.

Solution Set

IT leaders have been told by the media, vendors, and analyst community that their role is changing from technology leader to technology strategist, from producer to enabler.

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