What Keeps IT Executives Up @ Night

1. What Keeps IT
Executives Up @ Night
Prepared remarks by panelist
Henry Hirschel
Henry@HenryHirschel.com

2. Panel presentation
to silicon valley
executives
Response to questions

3. Question: Can you share any best practices or
strategies for retaining your top talent?
Gartner: By 2015, Information smart businesses will increase
recognized IT spending per enterprise employee 60%
10 best practice strategies for retaining your talent
true leadership is about influencing all levels or the organization
provide transparency among the team and stakeholders
actively listen to team members and customers
Assign work strategically
Understand capacity of individual members of the team

4. Question: Can you share any best practices or
strategies for retaining your top talent?
10 best practice strategies for retaining your talent
Reward employees and show appreciation
Talk with the team about higher purpose of work environment
Encourage work life balance
Focus on the future
Reduce fear among employees by discussing the future

5. “A good IT leader entices others to do
what they do best, in harmony with
others to create a result exponentially
better than what any single person
could accomplish” (CIO Magazine, 2011)

6. What can be done to move from the mentality of
immediate cost cutting needs to organizational-
wide efficiency improvements?
Garner: By 2015, new revenue generated each year by IT will
determine annual compensation of most Global 2000 CIO’s
Imagine managing IT as a profit center rather than a cost center.
Value proposition is a combination of hard and soft returns
IT leaders must improve the capabilities and maturity of key staff
Measure new revenue through vision of process improvement
Mentality of strategy-focused improvements
Socialize value with whole organization
Keep executives close and the CEO and CFO even closer

7. If you have a radical idea...don’t be radical
in how you carry it out. Become a right-
wing conservative in carrying out a left-
wing idea (J.Pesper Eckert)