Exploring Process in the 90-day plan
As the new CIO, you will be inundated with invitations to different governance meetings – risk committees, management committees, steering committees, policy committees, and so on. At first, this can be particularly useful to meet and work with your stakeholders on common agenda items, enabling you to understand how they think and what they care about. However, this will likely become frustrating, as you will want to spend time on what you consider critical deliverables in your own 90-day plan but not get the time to do this.
Indeed, you will have to learn to understand that Process can both help and hurt your cause. It requires an orderly process to have strategic projects prioritized and resources allocated. In the absence of such a facility, you will become branded as the bottleneck. There also needs to be an operational process that requires you to agree on systems availability and testing. All these activities have potential customer...
