The Evolving Role of CIO: Architect of Change at the Turn of the Millennium

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The Evolving Role of CIO Architect of Change
at the Turn of the Millennium

• Association of Women in ComputingOctober, 1999
• Dr. José-Marie GriffithsUniversity of Michigan
• Chief Information Officer

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The Role of the CIO Architect for Change

• Architecture is art and science freed by
  imagination/technology leadership requires skill
  in both
• Architects work is based on parameters
• environmental
• social
• cultural

Women are the real architects of society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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CIO as IT Architect Environmental,
Cultural/Social Parameters

• Environmental structure, resource availability,
  wind patterns, must fit into your context
• Cultural/social Values, community personality,
  personality your organization desires to project

I think that maybe if women and children were in
charge we would get somewhere. James Thurber
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Todays Information Technology A Different
Experience of Computing

• Physical
• Perceptual
• Behavioral
• Dynamic

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics
live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner
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My Design Response as a CIOGuiding Principles
for IT
Contribution
I only know that Ive always tried to go a step
past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
Community
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My Design Response as a CIOGuiding Principles
for IT
Equity
If women are to do the same work as men, we must
teach them the same things. Plato
Diversity
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In Architecture and Life Forces that Challenge
Structures

• Gravity
• Environmental forces natural and man-made
• Compression and tension
• Physical limitations of available resources

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the
test first and the lessons afterwards.
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Loose bricks and the need for hard hats...

• Professionally
• Personally

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few
inches to be a noose. Dan McKinnon
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The Importance of Having a Life façade vs.
substance

• We work from our own
• Vision
• Education
• Experience
• Sense of social responsibility
• World view
• Personal centeredness

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so
distressing as a life unlived. Rose Macaulay
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A Few Survival Tips...

• Divide and conquer
• Know your limits personally and professionally
• Just because you can do it doesnt mean you should

Love is like pi natural, irrational, and very
important. Lisa Hoffman
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Filling Up the Jar...
A life without cause is a life without
effect.
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• José-Marie GriffithsUniversity Chief Information
  OfficerThe University of Michigan5080 Fleming
  Administration BuildingAnn Arbor, Michigan
  48109-1349Phone [phone]email
  jmgriff_at_umich.eduCIO Web Page
  http//www.cio.umich.edu

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature. Helen Keller