Title: The Role of the Chief Information Officer
1The Role of the Chief Information Officer
CIO
- Presentation by
- Eliot Lee and Mark Guthrie
- November 12, 2005
2What Do These People Have in Common?
CIO
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3Presentation Overview
CIO
- Chief Information Officer profile
- - Demographics
- - Salary data
- - Employment information
- - Topic relevance
- In-depth case studies of 3 CIOs
- Best practices Role of the CIO
4Role of the CIO Is Evolving
CIO
- Quotable quote
- It is no longer useful or meaningful to talk
about the role of the CIO. - Barb Gomolski, senior research director,
Gartner, Nov. 27, 2000 1 - Rationale
- No single one-size-fits-all position
description - CIOs wear many hats work in various roles
- Different types of CIOs
- CIOs are driven by background and interests
- Industry and organizational differences affect
role
5Definition Chief Information Officer
CIO
- Job title is commonly given to the senior
executive in charge of information technology and
computer systems that support an organizations
business goals. - As IT has become increasingly important, the CIO
is typically viewed as a key strategist within
the organization. - In many companies, the CIO reports directly to
the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In some
companies, the CIO sits on the Executive Board. - Usually, a CIO proposes IT strategies to achieve
business goals and works within an established
budget. - - SearchCIO.com Definitions 2
6CIO Demographics
CIO
- 87 are male
- 70 moved up through the IT ranks
- 5 years, 9 months is average time as CIO
- 4 years, 6 months is average time in current job
- 40 report to CEO
- 85 are responsible for enterprise-wide IT
- 76 do not plan to outsource outside of U.S.
- - Source CIO Magazine 3
7CIO Regional Salary Comparison
CIO
Percentile Source 4 Midwest Chicago East Coast New York West Coast Los Angeles Southeast Miami
25th Percentile 173,434 186,163 179,640 157,841
50th Percentile 214,922 230,696 222,611 195,598
75th Percentile 272,348 292,337 282,093 247,862
8CIO in the Government
CIO
- In 1996, President Clinton signed what has become
known as the Clinger-Cohen Act. - This act required major
- Federal Agencies to
- establish the position
- of CIO.
- - CSA High Technology Research Database with
Aerospace 2001 5
9CIO Employment Turnover
CIO
- 5 Years Average tenure of a CIO in a single
position examples - Joseph Eckroth, former CIO of Mattel (Toys), left
position after 5 years. Joined New Century
Financial (Real Estate Investment Trust) - Patricia Morrison, former CIO of Office Depot,
left after 3.5 years to join Motorola - Frank Hood, former CIO Krispy Kreme Doughnuts,
left shortly to join Quiznos 6 - Some CIOs seek resume-building experiences rather
than a long-term career with a single employer. 7
10CIO Turnover Rate Comparison
CIO
- 77 business executives surveyed majority
believe CIO turnover is equal to other senior
positions 8 - 8 CIO turnover higher than other senior
positions in the company - 62 CIO turnover is the same
- 31 CIO turnover is lower than other senior
executive positions - Darwinmagazine.com
11CIO Employment Outlook
CIO
- CIO job search during downturn could last as long
as 12 to 18 months - Recruiting for CIOs increased in 2005
- Nationwide
- CIO job listings increased 30 from 2004
- Overall IT sector hiring increased 37 from 2004
9 - Locally, CIOs are increasing hiring of IT
professionals, according to Robert Half
Technology - 11 of CIOs surveyed in St. Louis planned to add
to staff 10 surveyed planned to reduce staff - Net 1 of CIOs planned to hire in the third
quarter of 2005 increase of 2 percentage points
from second quarter 10
12Chief Information OfficerCorporate Case Studies
CIO
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Three different companies. Three unique CIOs.
Three insightful perspectives.
13CIO Profile Centene Corporation
CIO
- Glendon Schuster 11
- Chief Information Officer
- Centene Corporation
- Joined company in company June 2005 on an interim
basis. Became permanent in October 2005. - Senior Management Team Member
- B.S., Electrical Engineering
14CIO Profile Glendon Schuster Professional IT
Background
CIO
Title Company Description
Partner Accenture Consulting Provider of programming consultants
Head of Information Technology Gamut Interactive A start-up company focusing on electronic couponing interacting with TV/Print Media
Development Lead Deluxe Check Check production
Various roles (designer, application architect, development lead, etc) Walgreens Pharmacy
15Centene Organizational Chart
CIO
CIO reports to the CEO
16Centene Corporate Overview
CIO
- Managed care provider for Medicaid
- Services claims processing and client reporting
- Operates healthcare plans in Indiana, Kansas,
Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin - Contracts with other companies to provider
special services including behavioral health and
disease management - 288 IT employees 159 full-time corporate 79
contractors
Year Total Company Revenue Annual IT Budget
2004 1 Billion Proprietary
2005 1.5 Billion Proprietary
17IT Culture at Centene
CIO
- 159 Full-Time Employees
- 79 Consultants
- Dynamic
- Expanding
- Reorganizing
- Very structured
18The Biggest IT Challenges at Centene
CIO
- Creating more customer-based reporting
- Increasing disease management
- Development of trending systems
- Regional Health Information Organizations
- Ability to bring fast reliable information to
patients, doctors and hospitals
19What Keeps the Centene CIO Awake at Night?
CIO
- Balance between controls (security, permissions,
signoffs) and administrative overhead - Giving people more authority to work
- on tasks (e.g., migrate code) is
- generally more efficient, but can lead
- to risks in security, regulatory
- procedures, compliance and litigation
- Locking down authority tends to tie up the
organization in administrative overhead
20CIO Relationship with CEO
CIO
- Reports directly to the CEO
- Weekly senior management meetings
- Average CIO communication with CEO occurs five
times per week IT rules at Centene. - Redefining the role of the
- IT department
- Major emphasis on teamwork
21CIOs Biggest IT Success at Centene
CIO
- Major reorganization of the IT department.
- Aligned the IT groups within
- functional areas.
- Quotable quote
- Change by evolution, not revolution.
- Glen Schuster, CIO
22How does IT drive business at Centene?
CIO
- IT drives the business at Centene
- IT should be reacting to the business
- IT should develop systems that complement the
business - Quotable quote
- IT should support the business objectives.
- Glen Schuster, CIO
23Trends Impacting Centene in the Next Five Years
CIO
- Disease management
- Design systems that do trending analysis based on
the amount and types of claims received - Develop software that can help predicate a
patients predisposition to a disease - Customer-based reporting
- Regional health information systems
24The Untold Story from the CIO Perspective
CIO
- CIO is not a technology expert.
- CIO has more power than he actually has.
- CIO can install and fix software problems.
- CIO is not involved with the daily activities of
the IT department. - CIO does not run the business takes direction
from the business.
25CIO Profile Express Scripts Inc.
CIO
- Patrick McNamee 12
- Chief Information Officer
- Express Scripts Inc.
- Joined company in February 2005
- Senior Management Team Member
- Corporate Resource Council Member
- M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering and
B.S., Biomedical Engineering Marquette
University
26CIO Profile Patrick McNamee Professional IT
Background
CIO
Title Company Description
President and General Manager MISYS Physician Systems Provider of information management software for physician practices
President and General Manager Orthopedic Equipment Corp. (General Electric) Surgery X-ray manufacturing business (GE Medical Systems)
Chief Information and Quality Officer NBC (GE) Television Network
Chief Information Officer and General Manager GE Transportation Systems eBusiness Transportation
Chief Information Officer GE Power Global Power Plants
27Express Scripts Corporate Overview
CIO
- Leading pharmacy benefits management (PBM)
company - Services claims processing, mail pharmacy,
specialty prescription fulfillment, benefit
design consultation, drug utilization review,
formulary management, and drug research - Wide range of corporate and organizational
clients including Dell Computer, United States
Department of Defense (DoD), Citigroup - Recognized in Information Weeks 500 Most
Technologically Progressive Companies - 1,030 IT employees 772 full-time corporate 258
contract
Year Total Company Revenue Annual IT Budget
2004 15.1 Billion 190.4 Million
2005 17.1 Billion Projected 223.8 Million
28Express Scripts Organizational Chart
CIO
CIO reports to the COO
29A Typical Day for the Express Scripts CIO
CIO
- 4 a.m. Blackberry buzzes on night stand to
alert about a Severity One Sev 1 critical
systems issue - Joins conference call to discuss troubleshooting
and assess impact on systems and users - Half-hour to get ready for work at the office
- Time allocation during the day
- 1. Leadership and staff meetings
- 2. Specific topical meetings (Corporate Resource
Council, Medicare Part D, Strategy/Planning) - 3. Dealing directly with employees (on-on-one
meetings) - 4. External boards St. Louis CIO Forum,
Community Health and Patient Services (CHPS)
30What Keeps the Express Scripts CIO Awake at Night?
CIO
- Performance and reliability issues No. 1
priority of any IT organization - Human resources, staffing responsibility for
nine direct reports managing turnover
developing leadership - Managing change
- Communication ongoing at all levels
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- Quotable quote Its all about communication
and sharing information. Pat McNamee, CIO
31CIO Perspective Business, People, and Technical
Skills
CIO
- People Behaviors and values around leadership
and teamwork are paramount. - Business Express Scripts is in a complicated
business expertise in healthcare is important. - Technology Technical skills are very
important however, technology is a
commodity. (Nicholas Carr said this too!)
- Quotable quote
- We have accountability and the creation
- of teams that are empowered
- non-bureaucratical. Pat McNamee, CIO
32CIO Relationship with CEO
CIO
- Weekly senior management meetings
- Weekly meeting with Chief Operating Officer (COO)
direct reporting line - Average CIO communication with CEO occurs five
times per week IT matters at Express Scripts. - Single, dedicated operations team
- Teamwork underscores everything
33CIOs Biggest IT Success at Express Scripts
CIO
- In nine months on the job, reduced
- Severity One Sev 1 systems alerts 74
- Outage minutes 60
- How success was achieved
- Dedicated Sr. Director position created to focus
- on supporting systems performance and
reliability - Changed responsibility of applications team by
- reallocating infrastructure ownership/accountabil
ity to new team - Heavy investment in performance monitoring
robots provide early alerts - Lessons learned
- Goals from IT strategic plan can be achieved
with proper planning, hard work, appropriate
allocation of resources and team effort. IT teams
can cross the finish line, although there are
always new goals to attain in IT.
34The Biggest IT Challenges at Express Scripts
CIO
- Performance and reliability of systems
- Express Scripts is an organization built through
acquisition - Not well architected many diverse applications
- make it a challenge to sustain the platform
- Aligning IT with key industry initiatives such as
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act) and Medicare Part D
(prescription drug benefit) - Huge amount of price pressure in the marketplace
for pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies - Customers have unique program requirements
differentiation affects IT - Striving for perfect systems performance
35How Does IT Drive Business at Express Scripts?
CIO
- Introducing new technologies tied to industry
initiatives Example Consumer-Driven Healthcare - Work with technology start-up companies
(third-party vendors) to develop lowest-cost,
highest-reliability systems - Quotable quote
- If IT demonstrates that systems are reliable,
customers will choose us. - Pat McNamee, CIO
36Trends Impacting Express Scripts in the Next Five
Years
CIO
- Price pressure
- Develop lower-cost solution (impacts IT spend)
- Differentiate service (innovation, performance)
- Client and patient service group focuses on
technology component (number of calls, - cost-per-call, etc.)
- Industry initiatives
- Carve-In Healthcare Programs
- Consumer-Driven Healthcare
- Transparency
- Requires Express Scripts to develop tools that
allow customers to understand the companys
programs - Evolve Web portals to let customers truly see the
business
37CIOs Most-Important Lesson Learned
CIO
- IT is all about service.
- Teamwork goal of collaboration is to
- make others successful
- Establish trust
- Develop priorities
- Quotable quote
- IT is a service organization. It is not of any
value as an independent entity. Many IT
organizations fail because they dont identify
one role to serve. Pat McNamee, CIO
38The Untold Story from the CIO Perspective
CIO
- IT forces people to have a deeper understanding
of business processes (operations, accounting,
strategic planning). Its not just about
technology. - Automating processes takes leadership and
industry acumen. - CIOs are not technology introverts.
- Express Scripts IT department develops talent.
- Goal of CIO is to develop staff and move people
out of IT department and into other areas of the
company. This spreads expertise (learned
through IT) among the organizations key
departments.
39CIO Profile Spartech Corp.
CIO
- Michael Lane 13
- Chief Information Officer
- Spartech Corporation
- Joined the company in February 2001
- General management/auditing career background
Quotable quote I never touch the keyboard, I am
surrounded by good people. Michael Lane, CIO
40Spartech Corp. Organizational Chart
CIO
CIO reports to the CFO
41Spartech Corporate Overview
CIO
- Largest plastic-sheet supplier in the U.S.
- 45 manufacturing plants worldwide
- Corporate headquarters in Clayton
- 25 IT employees
Year Total Company Revenue Annual IT Budget
2004 1.1 Billion N/A
2005 1.4 Billion 9 Million
42IT Culture at Spartech Corporation
CIO
- Best in St. Louis
- Relaxed
- Consultant-like atmosphere
- 25 full-time employees small staff supports
large IT program
43CIOs Biggest IT Success at Spartech
CIO
- Had upper management recognize IT as an important
department in the organization - Implementation of VOIP network
- through out the company
- Implementation of Oracle financial systems
- Provide maximum support with minimum staff
44The Biggest IT Challenges at Spartech Corporation
CIO
- Proving IT can deliver on its promises
- Smooth implementation of the ERP project
- Keeping up on cutting-edge technology
45How Does IT Drive Business at Spartech?
CIO
- IT is almost a partner at Spartech.
- 4 years ago, IT was a necessary evil.
46CIO Relationship with CEO
CIO
- Reports to the CFO
- Weekly senior management meetings
- Average CIO communication with CEO occurs 2 to 3
times per week - IT is almost a partner at Spartech.
47Trends Impacting Spartech in the Next Five Years
CIO
- Oil Prices
- - Largest supplier of plastic sheets in
America - Healthcare Costs
- - Healthcare costs are rising
- China
- - China becoming a major player in the
market
48CIOs Most-Important Lesson Learned
CIO
- Dont over promise.
- Dont jump the gun on technology.
- Under promise, over deliver.
- Develop an efficient team.
49The Untold Story from the CIO Perspective
CIO
- The leadership the position requires CIO to have
- CIO is salesman
- CIO has to hire good people
- Loyalty is a two-way street
50CIO Best PracticesPeople Skills
CIO
- IT executives fight image of being too technical,
introverted and tactical - Santa Clara University study notes that
stereotyping creates missed organizational
opportunities - Study proposes that IT work provides the best
possible training ground for senior managers. 14 - Technical skills AND people skills are equally
important - University of Dayton study found no differences
between CIOs with technical backgrounds and those
with general management backgrounds 15
51CIO Best PracticesInnovation
CIO
- IT innovation is important for leading companies
- CIO Magazine study found 71 of CIOs stated that
innovation was a key element of their companys
business strategy - 80 of respondents stated that the CIO is
responsible for corporate innovation 16 - More than half of 83 CIOs in the study said
innovative IT ideas have increased in the past
two years 17 - 65 of CIOs in the study said developing
innovative IT ideas is a significant or dominant
aspect of their roles. 17 - CIO should be committed to lead innovation CEO
should support optimistically for success 18 - CIO should help business units identify IT new
solutions 19 - Smart companies partner with CIO to develop
innovative e-business initiatives 20 - CIO role defined as teacher or prophet vs.
technologist 21
52CIO Best PracticesCommunication
CIO
- Clear communication is key. CIO should avoid
techno-speak and jargon 22 - Organizational communication has a significant
impact on - Employee attitudes
- Employee behavior
- Employee perceptions about managing change 23
- Quotable quote worth quoting again
- Its all about communication and sharing
information. - Pat McNamee, CIO, Express Scripts
53Lessons Learned Typical CIO Awake at Night
CIO
- IT project delays
- Staffing and user demands
- Competition
- Management changes
- Vendors
- Quotable quote
- "IT is like the CIA. Nobody knows our successes,
but the failures are public knowledge." - Shawn Schwegman, CIO, Overstock.com 24
54Lessons LearnedStatus Impacts CIO Role
CIO
- CIOs in many organizations are challenged by
internal perceptions - IT is often perceived as having a lower status
than other business functions 25 - Status can be defined as recognition from the
organization of the IT functions capabilities
and value. 25 - Status does matter for CIOs
- Corporate culture affects status
55Lessons LearnedOutsourcing
CIO
- Room for outsourcing in non-mission critical IT
functions - Outsourcing should only be done on call center
functions - Cognizant Technology Solutions is the latest
offshore services firm to report blockbuster
year-over-year growth. - - Information Weekly 11/1/2005 26
56Lessons LearnedIT Effectiveness
CIO
- Slow economic recovery created lean IT
organizations - Opportunity to determine IT effectiveness
- CIOs should have metrics for determining IT
effectiveness - Consequence of not measuring IT effectiveness is
corporate ambiguity and perception of the CIO
flying blind 27
57Role of CIO Summary
CIO
- CIO role is still relevant
- Important for general managers to understand this
pivotal senior position - Communication, leadership, and people skills
essential to CIO success - Closing quote for discussion
- The role of the CIO could disappear within 10
years its only a matter of time until every C
level officer needs to have the same level of
information as the CIO. - -- J.P. Rangaswami, CIO, Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein, at the 2005 Triple i Convention 28
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60Photo Credits
CIO
- Slide 2
- Sylvia Steinmann, CIO, Swiss Re
- Aaron Gibbs, CIO, St. Augustines College
- Dennis Thiebeault, CIO, Curry College
- Cindy Stoddard, CIO, Neptune Orient Lines
- Jane Aboyoun, CIO, Reed Business Information
- Craig Berry, CIO, UGS
- Beth Brigdon, CIO, Medical College of Georgia
- Beth Roose, CIO, Pennsylvania Dept. of
Transportation - Sam Segran, CIO, Texas Tech University
- Terri Morgan, CIO, Railroad Retirement Board
- Eric Jackson, CIO, Morehouse School of Medicine
- Lee Colaw, CIO, Pacific University