Your first three months on the job are the ultimate predictor of your long-term success. Understand what to prioritize when everything is a priority.
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Without a 100-day plan in place, the CIO may:
Lack a clear path forward in establishing themselves as a leader.
Fail to impress key business stakeholders, impacting their willingness to buy in to the new leader’s vision.
Fall into the trap of analysis paralysis, where competing streams of information overwhelm and prevent any meaningful progress or actions being taken.
Early preparation and a well-crafted 100-day plan will:
Demonstrate your preparedness for a role in the C-suite and your capability as a leader.
Understand the needs and challenges of your key stakeholders.
Identify early wins that will help build trust in your ability to get things done.
Advance your strategic value within the organization.
Module 1: Develop a Leadership Mandate and Value Statements
The Purpose
Distill your stakeholder expectations and desired target state into a vision and set of values that the business can expect from IT.
Prerequisite: Requires completed stakeholder analysis and clearly defined expectations/KPIs.
Key Benefits Achieved
Communicate a compelling vision of what the future state of IT will look like.
Identify a set of values for the IT organization that will define a set of behaviors the business can expect.
Socialize your future direction with the larger organization to gain buy-in and feedback.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Review communicated expectations as CIO.
1.2
Review organizational priorities and in-flight commitments.
1.3
Craft vision and value statements that align with your mandate as CIO.
Leadership vision
Organizational value statements
Module 2: Early Win Identification
The Purpose
Identify potential quick wins that will align with your expectations as a CIO, have high visibility, and help you gain your key stakeholders's trust in your ability to deliver.
Key Benefits Achieved
Map out your key initiatives based off your stakeholder interviews and assessments.
Analyze the initiatives based on visibility, effort, and risk to determine which early wins to schedule in your first 100 days.
Activities:
Outputs:
2.1
Map your initiatives to determine their ratio of effort to impact.
IT initiative matrix
2.2
Further map your quick wins in terms of organizational visibility and risk of failure.
Visibility and risk analysis
2.3
Finalize selection of your early win initiatives.
Finalized early win initiatives
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