1. Opening Thoughts & Session Level Set
The CIO Practicum
Next Generation IT: From Business Enabler to the Business Itself
“Don’t Fear the Future”
September 1, 2016
Opening Thoughts & Session Level Set
Thornton
May

2. the status quo would produce “a future that is really kind of scary.”
Last night ~ 12 minutes into his remarks Tom Murphy told us that perpetuating
the status quo would produce
“a future that is really kind of scary.” 2

3. Don’t Perpetuate the Status Quo
Action
Item
Don’t Perpetuate the Status Quo

4. What Part[s] of the Status Quo Should we be getting rid of?
3 minute exercise
Should we be getting rid of?

5. Report Backs

6. What Patterns/Trends [if any] do you perceive in your responses?
Theo van Doesburg, Composition in Gray (Rag-time), 1919

7. Parts of IT’s Ozzie & Harriet Past We have already jettisoned

8. Historical Perspective
IT Used to be a monopoly 8

9. IT’s “Kiss My Ring” Days are over
“Cardinal Pacelli (Later Pope Pius XII) at Montmartre, Paris,” 1938, by Henri Cartier-Bresson

10. 3 minute exercise
If you had
one wish…

11. Julianne Swartz, How Deep Is Your, 2012
Report
Backs
Julianne Swartz, How Deep Is Your, 2012

12. What Patterns/Trends
[if any]
do you
perceive
in your
responses?

13. Most tables agreed on one thing
Last night
Most tables agreed on one thing

14. Financial Transparency Makes the Future a less Scary Place

15. Our Industry is Prone to Periodic D-I-Y Paroxysms
Andy Warhol,
Do It Yourself (Violin), 1962 15

16. History of IT Can Be Framed
as a Pendulum Swinging IT
Dominant IT
Submissive 16

17. Question to Think About
Is “IT IS the Business” Just Another Pendulum Swing? 17

18. A Digital Singularity Is the Next Step…
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 18

19. the difference between
What is
the difference between
selling and marketing?
Question #2 19

20. the difference between
What is
the difference between
selling and marketing?
Selling is trying to
get people
to want
what you have.
Marketing is trying to
have what people want. 20

21. NextGen IT Leaders will get out of the
“selling” IT to the business business 21

22. What do we Know about Organizations where IT is the business?
Examples?
Examples in Ohio?
Characteristics? x 22

23. In 2015, they had a pretty good year
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google –all had an exceptional 2015.
They went from the GDP of Spain [in terms of their market cap]
to the GDP of Canada. 23