首页
登录
职称英语
With cloud, mobility, big data and consumerization, companies are in even gre
With cloud, mobility, big data and consumerization, companies are in even gre
游客
2023-12-26
29
管理
问题
With cloud, mobility, big data and consumerization, companies are in even greater need of technology talent than they were in the late 1990s, and that talent is in even shorter supply. Computer science enrollments are at an all-time low; baby-boomer workers are retiring and taking all of that legacy — systems knowledge with them; and Silicon Valley is hot again. Would that young, brilliant developer rather join the next Zynga or upgrade the payroll systems at your insurance company?
Two weeks ago, I asked the IT executive readership of my weekly newsletter, The Heller Report, to answer the question: If you had a magic wand, which one talent problem would you solve? Responses poured in and addressed challenges around recruiting, developing leaders, and retaining the talent that they currently have. But more than 70 percent of readers would use their magic wand to do only one thing: give business skills to their technologists. Their people, they worry, are so narrowly focused on the technology that they fail to see the
forest
for the trees. They do not understand the business context of their technology work, nor can they have meaningful discussions with the leaders of the business areas about their technology support.
This lack of business-savvy technology talent is a serious problem for every company that relies on technology to exist (which is, of course, every company). Those beautifully "blended executives," who can talk technology in one meeting and can talk business in another, are rare birds. Yet with technology moving directly into the revenue stream of your company, you need them, and your need is only going to increase.
One option is to spend all of your time and money on recruiting blended executives from the outside. You will be in heated competition with every other company in your market, and if your
recruiting function
is not a competitive weapon for you, you will find yourself in a losing battle. You would be much better off growing your own. Here are some ideas:
Build a rotational program. Encourage your head of human resources to work with your CIO and a few of your other business leaders to build a program that rotates IT people into different functions of the business. This kind of program is not easy, with your CIO having to survive without a trusted IT leader for a period of time, but the long-term result of a good rotational program can be tremendous. It may well be worth the investment.
Involve your business leaders. If a rotational program is too much to take on right now, build a leadership development program for IT that involves your business executives. Encourage your CIO to invite the heads of your major business units to meet regularly with the senior IT team to educate them on their business area. And be sure that you, CFO, are spending enough time with IT. Use that interaction to chip away at the long-standing wall that often exists between the business and IT.
Embed your IT people in the business. By now, your CIO should have restructured the IT organization so that each major business or functional area has a dedicated IT leader. These positions are called "business relationship executives," portfolio CIOs, or customer relationship managers, and they often report both to the CIO and to a functional or P&L leader. The more time they spend in "
the business
," the more they learn skills beyond IT, and the more valuable they become to you over time. You know you are on the right track when you walk into a business unit meeting, and from the dialogue taking place, you cannot easily distinguish the IT person from everyone else. [br] Following Paragraph 5, the passage is intended for______.
选项
A、CFO
B、CIO
C、P&L
D、IT professionals
答案
A
解析
推断题。本文的叙述者是I,叙述对象是you。因此,只要确定you是谁,即可找到本题的答案。于是定位第6段倒数第3行:And be sure that you,CFO,are spending enough time with IT.分析该句的语法结构可知,CFO为you的同位语,故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3305994.html
相关试题推荐
Eighty-oneofthe100largestcompaniesintheU.S.havepoliciesthatbarc
BusinesspeopleabroadwhowanttomakeconnectionswithChinesecompaniescant
BusinesspeopleabroadwhowanttomakeconnectionswithChinesecompaniescant
BusinesspeopleabroadwhowanttomakeconnectionswithChinesecompaniescant
BusinesspeopleabroadwhowanttomakeconnectionswithChinesecompaniescant
InChina,thelocalgovernmentrequiredminingcompaniestosubmitstatementssh
Withcloud,mobility,bigdataandconsumerization,companiesareinevengre
Withcloud,mobility,bigdataandconsumerization,companiesareinevengre
Withcloud,mobility,bigdataandconsumerization,companiesareinevengre
Aleadin5GbyChinesecompaniesshouldspreadtheiradvantageintomorelucrat
随机试题
TheSenatebillaimsto______withinthenextsevenyears.[originaltext]
患有病毒性肝炎时,肝细胞的灶状坏死属于()。A.凝固性坏死 B.液化性坏死
主要组织相容性复合物简称()A.ABO B.HLA C.HLB D.M
化简的结果是( )。
B、C类火灾场所(严重危险级)手提式灭火器的最大保护距离()m。(A)1
牛蒡解肌汤的功效( )。A.疏风清热,解毒透疹 B.疏散外邪,发表解肌 C
在上市公司重大资产重组中,审计机构与评估机构应彼此独立,具体要求包括()。A:执
客户不得将已设定担保或其他第三方确立及被采取查封、冻结等司法措施的证券提交为担保
供保证担保方式的个人住房贷款适用于期限不超过()年的贷款,贷款额度不得超过所购住
某分项工程施工采用方案A的成本为5万元,在相同条件下,采用其他方案的合理成本为4
最新回复
(
0
)