CIOReview | | 19 APRIL 2023space with new and old technology skilled employees with fresh ideas in your team, to create innovative business solutions.Mix of experience and new tech skills in team, is essential to create value on legacy systems integrated with new tech solutions. There is no one true in IT world. Based on your available resources you have many solutions for problems. Single approach as migrating whole IT operations to new trending technologies or totally being stuck on legacy systems and technologies, is not the optimized solution for IT to be business partner and enabler. Nowadays, IT critical role is being an optimizer as- Between old and new technology approaches, - Being business partner and enabler with an efficient tech mix, - Nonstop review of feasibility in trending IT technologies and approaches.My Role as an IT leaderAs an IT leader, I am focusing on below challenges with changing priorities- Follow up tech trends to discover opportunities for business, be tech "follower"- Till retire, integrate old systems with new technology for optimized solutions- Establish "data lake" from operations for business decisions. Keep reachable your "data lake" via integrations. Let your data be meaningful for business via powerful Business Intelligence tools- Evaluate business requests with Pro's and Con's- Create approach of Digital Transformation is a corporate work culture shift. It is not an IT project- Creating approach in business "feel responsible" about feasibility and cost in business requests- Creating approach in IT team "feel responsible" about business challenges, being pro-active solution providers and acting as business partners- Keep your team fresh and motivated, "live and lead" them- Hire new tech employees to foresee opportunities in trending technologies- Proving and convincing the BoD, more than being "cost", IT investmentso Have ROI, impact on business results and profitabilityo Provide advantage in competition, market, customer service qualityo Provide security on financial, business and manufacturing datao Provide Health & Safety & Environment security on manufacturing automationo Have compliance with regulationso Provide control of all corporate "knowledge assets"Advise for future IT Directors and CIOsAs mentioned at the beginning of article, I have almost 25 years of experience in different IT roles. Always has been a "hands on" leader. When your teams seeks advise from you, you should know the systems and technologies to consult them. Encourage your team to collaborate and connect with business. This is the way that that prevents working in silos and understanding the business challenges and bottlenecks. Be in close touch with your team members, they are human and needs interact with you as a leader. Ensure your IT function leaders are trained on project management. This approach may help every member of your team to speak same language and how to optimize the usage of limited resources.Understand and apply the risk calculation, making feasibility study and proving ROI of each IT project or investment as a finance person. This will help you to get convince and get support from BoD.And final advise, be customer centric, success is depends on your customer happiness who are IT solution users. A mix of experience and new tech skills in a team is essential to create value on legacy systems integrated with new tech solutions
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