CIO – The First 90 Days
In every journey, there comes the first step, and preparing a plan from this starting point will only increase your chances of success.
The fundamental question that is to be addressed in this chapter is as follows:
How do I write my plan for the first 90 days as a CIO?
I was a CIO for 15 years at Eli Lilly in five different countries; and now I was moving back to a CIO role after two years at KPMG doing strategic IT consulting. In my previous CIO roles, I always had a plan but never specifically committed to writing it down; instead, I carried it in my mind.
The story I will share commences in a new CIO role that I had held at Credit Union Australia (CUA) – a mutual bank that was undergoing a period of unparalleled transformation. Personally, I was attracted to the opportunity as a career spiral to move back into financial services. While I had held larger roles at Eli Lilly, the size of my role was never a factor. There was a significant...
