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New or Interim CIO Action Points

by Mark Davison February 6. 2011 16:54
  • Meet the stakeholders
  • Determine the major problems and issues
    • Special callout: what issues exist with security, compliance and backup/recovery?
  • Determine your staffing needs; figure out who are the right people you need on board to help
  • Review the budget and determine additional financial, human and other resources that may be needed
  • Review IT processes and procedures; determine where improvements are needed
  • Evaluate the personnel performance review process and determine changes needed
  • Develop your improvement plan - both strategic and tactical
    • Special callouts:  Develop a communications plan - take pains to communicate clearly and often; develop a change management plan -plan the extent and pace of change you plan
  • Launch initiatives targeted at resolving the major problems and issues
  • Establish the measurements you can use to measure improvement
  • Execute the improvement plan


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Mark Davison

After 25+ years of working on and leading projects primarily in IT, I'm establishing this blog to share knowledge, ideas, tips and techniques regarding how to turnaround and fix troubled and failed projects

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