What you want to know about Managing an Information Technology Department

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CIO Information - Strategic IT Plan

• Office of the Chief Information officer
• Strategic IT Plan Maturity Models and Preparation Guidance
• Information Technology Strategic Plan example

IT cost chargeback Information

• Is IT Chargeback More Trouble Than It's Worth?
• How does your IT department measure up?

Project management

• PMI : making project management indispensable for business results
• Steering Committee 'nuts and bolts'

Information Systems Architecture

• Information Systems Architecture group concerned with the "middleware" software layer between applications and key data services

Disaster Recovery - Business Continuity Plan

• Execs retreat on business continuity

My view of the IT director evolving to CIO role

1. Manage the IT department as a profit center in an international group that considers IT as competitive advantage.
2. Take responsibilities over IT projects (application development, software, hardware) involving more resources while managing IT staff from multi-national / multi-cultural environment.
3. Meet with B.U. leaders in order to set expectations. Ensure mutual understanding : business needs vs. information technology. Proactively engage them on IT enablement of their business initiative. Plan the actions needed to complete business requirements. Bring the IT means that will allow them to increase productivity and even generate profit. Become a trusted-ally for B.U.
4. Decide with the Group Management and the B.U. leaders, the IT priorities depending on business needs and the Group strategy.
5. Ideally report to the CEO and be present at the ExCOM.
6. Handle the budget responsibility and allocate it where it should be.
Do not invest in technology when there is only a need for better communication or organization.
7. Hire motivated staff that are versatile and always eager to increase their knowledge.
Handle Appraisal and decide for bonuses and salaries: "More Carrots than Sticks". Always reward those who are eager to help the company growth and proactively try to improve processes. Verify that their skills are always in-line with the company needs.
8. Manage the entity as a profit center and chargeback the B.U. that are using IT by putting in place the adequate indicators.
9. Behave as a service leader and guarantee the service Level needed and use the necessary corresponding technology and means
10. Ensure the data security and safety and guarantee data confidentiality and integrity.
11. Really coach staff, transmit knowledge to motivate them and take the better out of them
12. Negotiate contracts with providers and don't hesitate to make them compete against each other in order to keep the adequate market price. Avoid sticking with long-term contracts.
13. Handle a yearly pre-established and individual training budget for improving both technical and interpersonal staff skills.
14. IT must be considered as real added value to save productivity and even increase business

Basics of Business Process Management - Re-engineering + Corporate Strategy

• Basics of Business Processes & corporate strategy

The IT director role in IT Magazines

• IT directors are facing big problems
• The metamorphosis of the CIO
• CIO Insight - The Changing Role of the CIO
• CIO Mag - The Changing CIO Role
• The 6 best practices: what leading CIOs do

Business Plan - Business Strategy

• White Paper - Writing a Business Plan
• STRATEGIC ANALYSIS AND PLANNING
• Piloter.org / How to drive performance : BPM, Balanced scorecard, Business Intelligence(in french)
• Free On-Line Strategic Planner
• Bridging the gap between Technology and Business - Strategy Mc Lean Report

IT Management - HR & skills

• Choose a mentor who will push you out of the comfort zone to reap maximum benefit

Whether it is a teacher at school, a particularly inspiring boss, or your parents, we all rely on mentors to help our personal development.
Some will have a profound effect on our lives, others may not exert such obvious influence, but all will shape you in your career and personal life...
... moreover you will derive most benefit from mentors who force you to address the uncomfortable sides of your character.
• Interpersonal Skills for Management
• Assertivity (french) . Danger to convince (fench)
• Same Words, Different Language (english & french) . Strategy and Organization

How to build a web site

• Web site design
• langage html
• Style sheets
• Starting with HTML + CSS
• Ez HyperText Markup Language
• Text Tags Examples
• HTML Text color definition
• The HTML Hell Page

How to build a PHP web site

• A simple PHP tutorial
• Interested in learning how to program using PHP?

The meta tag explained (= les meta données)

• META Tag Guide

Google Dance Tools + Information

• Phases of the Moon
• Google Dance Tool
• Last Google Dance, like a Google stampede 2003/11/27
• Google Jagger Devalues Homepages 2005/10/28 - Google Dance disturbance in October 2005 ?
• The Google Update of October 2005 - The Google Jagger Dance Update
• On the Google Jagger Algo Update - November 13th 2005

Search Engine Optimization tools (= outils d'amélioration du référencement )

• French SEO tool
• Cool SEO Tool
• What Is A Google Dance?

Last updated : 21/09/2007

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