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Draft an organization chart (use other charts as help) with the following info i.e. Ben perry is the new CIO, new IT leadership team

Draft an organization chart (use other charts as help) with the following info i.e. Ben perry is the new CIO, new IT leadership team

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Understanding Business
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Author:William Nickels
Publisher:William Nickels
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Draft an organization chart (use other charts as help) with the following info
i.e. Ben perry is the new CIO, new IT leadership team

In an effort to regroup both financially and strategically, his company, World Heliographics (WH), had begun to sell off its assets. Unfortunately, Ray's division, medical film, was among the first to go. As the CEO had just informed him, it had been sold to a successful private equity firm that would hold 100% of its assets and take an active role in its future activities. It would now become a separate business, Global Digital Imaging (GDI), and Ray would be expected to deliver significant value for its new owner-investor, VE Investments. "They have an experienced management team and a proven ability to build businesses," the CEO told him. "If you can give them the returns they want, they will keep you on as President." As he stepped on to the elevator, Ray felt both exhilarated and apprehensive about this new opportunity. Mentally, he started an inventory of the new company's assets. With operations in more than 150 companies, revenues of about $3 billion, and 12,000 staff, it was a substantial company in its own right. But operating independently of a much larger parent company created headaches in a number of areas, requiring the development of separate functions in HR, finance, facilities, and IT. The thought of this last issue struck him hard. "What are we going to do with all the systems?" he asked himself. It would be relatively easy to hire good people to manage the other corporate entities, but IT was a different kettle of fish. And the last thing he wanted was to worry about IT... not when so much was riding on how well GDI performed as a freestanding company. There was a lot to do in very little time, and soon GDI was a legal entity. On day one, Ray called his senior people together. "Our first priority is to run as a company independent from WH as quickly as possible," he said. "We need to think like a young, agile company and not like a large, entrenched bureaucratic organization. Fortunately, we've got the transition team from VE Investments to help us." And indeed, it was only a few months before complete separation was accomplished, that is, everywhere except IT. "Why is this so difficult?" Ray grumbled to the temporary CIO, Fred Gamble. "We have a number of problems," Fred said cautiously, observing the fire in Ray's eyes. "Because legally, GDI didn't officially exist until the actual divestiture took place, no contracts could be signed or service-level agreements established until then. As a result, GDI has inherited a mini WH IT function with all its flaws, so we now have a smorgasbord of technology." Fred explained that all applications, data, and infrastructure had been purchased and replicated to create a parallel organizational structure just to keep the business running during divestment. "So this means that not only are our systems not integrated, but they are also not designed for our type of company," Ray concluded bluntly. . The search for a new CIO began in earnest the next day. "I need an experienced and proven CIO to formulate a vision for a transformed IT function," he told the search firm he hired to help him. "You understand IT much better than I do so find me someone who is able to undertake a challenging transformation on multiple fronts at once." • The winning candidate was Ben Perry, a career IT executive, who joined GDI one year after it was created. "I knew I had a mandate to transform IT," recalled Ben later. "And I knew we had to make some big changes, but I underestimated just how big these changes were going to be. There were a number of things we had to fix. We were still tethered to WH through some technology. The plans to disconnect had slipped four or five times and there was now a major lack of confidence about this separation. Our systems were outdated and not designed for a company dealing with healthcare products for medical practitioners. Our costs were too high and unpredictable. We needed to get our costs under control in order to free up funds for new investments. We had 700 core applications and needed 200 to 300 at the most. We had multiple financial and email systems, no architecture or standards, and exact copies of every type of infrastructure and application that WH had. It was like the Wild West!"
Transcribed Image Text:In an effort to regroup both financially and strategically, his company, World Heliographics (WH), had begun to sell off its assets. Unfortunately, Ray's division, medical film, was among the first to go. As the CEO had just informed him, it had been sold to a successful private equity firm that would hold 100% of its assets and take an active role in its future activities. It would now become a separate business, Global Digital Imaging (GDI), and Ray would be expected to deliver significant value for its new owner-investor, VE Investments. "They have an experienced management team and a proven ability to build businesses," the CEO told him. "If you can give them the returns they want, they will keep you on as President." As he stepped on to the elevator, Ray felt both exhilarated and apprehensive about this new opportunity. Mentally, he started an inventory of the new company's assets. With operations in more than 150 companies, revenues of about $3 billion, and 12,000 staff, it was a substantial company in its own right. But operating independently of a much larger parent company created headaches in a number of areas, requiring the development of separate functions in HR, finance, facilities, and IT. The thought of this last issue struck him hard. "What are we going to do with all the systems?" he asked himself. It would be relatively easy to hire good people to manage the other corporate entities, but IT was a different kettle of fish. And the last thing he wanted was to worry about IT... not when so much was riding on how well GDI performed as a freestanding company. There was a lot to do in very little time, and soon GDI was a legal entity. On day one, Ray called his senior people together. "Our first priority is to run as a company independent from WH as quickly as possible," he said. "We need to think like a young, agile company and not like a large, entrenched bureaucratic organization. Fortunately, we've got the transition team from VE Investments to help us." And indeed, it was only a few months before complete separation was accomplished, that is, everywhere except IT. "Why is this so difficult?" Ray grumbled to the temporary CIO, Fred Gamble. "We have a number of problems," Fred said cautiously, observing the fire in Ray's eyes. "Because legally, GDI didn't officially exist until the actual divestiture took place, no contracts could be signed or service-level agreements established until then. As a result, GDI has inherited a mini WH IT function with all its flaws, so we now have a smorgasbord of technology." Fred explained that all applications, data, and infrastructure had been purchased and replicated to create a parallel organizational structure just to keep the business running during divestment. "So this means that not only are our systems not integrated, but they are also not designed for our type of company," Ray concluded bluntly. . The search for a new CIO began in earnest the next day. "I need an experienced and proven CIO to formulate a vision for a transformed IT function," he told the search firm he hired to help him. "You understand IT much better than I do so find me someone who is able to undertake a challenging transformation on multiple fronts at once." • The winning candidate was Ben Perry, a career IT executive, who joined GDI one year after it was created. "I knew I had a mandate to transform IT," recalled Ben later. "And I knew we had to make some big changes, but I underestimated just how big these changes were going to be. There were a number of things we had to fix. We were still tethered to WH through some technology. The plans to disconnect had slipped four or five times and there was now a major lack of confidence about this separation. Our systems were outdated and not designed for a company dealing with healthcare products for medical practitioners. Our costs were too high and unpredictable. We needed to get our costs under control in order to free up funds for new investments. We had 700 core applications and needed 200 to 300 at the most. We had multiple financial and email systems, no architecture or standards, and exact copies of every type of infrastructure and application that WH had. It was like the Wild West!"
Next up was the new organizational chart. Ben started with the appointment of Teresa Danton as Director of IT Strategy & Planning, the Project Management Office (PMO) and Governance. As Ben explained, her job was to support the new organizational design by bolstering the existing, ineffective PMO and introducing new governance practices that would eventually result in a comprehensive governance framework. "We need execution discipline to deliver business value through our IT programs and portfolios," Ben stated. "We need to develop the standards and best practices to do this and acquire the tools and methodologies to streamline project delivery and enhance quality. In addition, Teresa will be responsible for time tracking and billing, project planning and reporting and financial planning and tracking. She will also measure everything so we can report on our progress to the business. Governance is a critical success factor for our transformation." Next, the rest of the IT leadership team was revealed: a Director of Operations, whose goal was to run the key business systems as efficiently as possible by streamlining resources and reducing costs; a Director of Relationship Management, whose job was to move the IT culture from being order-takers to solution providers and eventually strategic partners; a Director of Enterprise Architecture responsible for developing a technology roadmap and a transition plan to move the organization from its current technology state to its planned future state; a Director of Data Security & Privacy whose job was to organize, safeguard, and ensure the availability of all data assets in a manner that protected the privacy of individuals; and finally a Director of Application Development whose job was to acquire new systems through purchase or development to support the business through automation. Ben kept talent management - critical to IT transformation for himself. "Spin-offs are dirty work when it comes to people," Ben told his team. You've already seen that not everyone at the senior management level was able to handle the changes involved and this is true for the rest of our staff as well. "Some of our people will need to move to our outsourcers as we realign our contracts, but others simply do not have the right skills." For the next hour and a half, Ben dealt with questions and invited his leadership team to discuss their issues and concerns with their new assignments. “I want us all in agreement here," he told them, "because my next job is convincing the business that we will be able to accomplish this mission." All heads nodded in unison. Then he dropped the bomb! "And the first way we're going to do this is to cut the cord with WH!" he proclaimed, holding up a mouse with a dangling tail.
Transcribed Image Text:Next up was the new organizational chart. Ben started with the appointment of Teresa Danton as Director of IT Strategy & Planning, the Project Management Office (PMO) and Governance. As Ben explained, her job was to support the new organizational design by bolstering the existing, ineffective PMO and introducing new governance practices that would eventually result in a comprehensive governance framework. "We need execution discipline to deliver business value through our IT programs and portfolios," Ben stated. "We need to develop the standards and best practices to do this and acquire the tools and methodologies to streamline project delivery and enhance quality. In addition, Teresa will be responsible for time tracking and billing, project planning and reporting and financial planning and tracking. She will also measure everything so we can report on our progress to the business. Governance is a critical success factor for our transformation." Next, the rest of the IT leadership team was revealed: a Director of Operations, whose goal was to run the key business systems as efficiently as possible by streamlining resources and reducing costs; a Director of Relationship Management, whose job was to move the IT culture from being order-takers to solution providers and eventually strategic partners; a Director of Enterprise Architecture responsible for developing a technology roadmap and a transition plan to move the organization from its current technology state to its planned future state; a Director of Data Security & Privacy whose job was to organize, safeguard, and ensure the availability of all data assets in a manner that protected the privacy of individuals; and finally a Director of Application Development whose job was to acquire new systems through purchase or development to support the business through automation. Ben kept talent management - critical to IT transformation for himself. "Spin-offs are dirty work when it comes to people," Ben told his team. You've already seen that not everyone at the senior management level was able to handle the changes involved and this is true for the rest of our staff as well. "Some of our people will need to move to our outsourcers as we realign our contracts, but others simply do not have the right skills." For the next hour and a half, Ben dealt with questions and invited his leadership team to discuss their issues and concerns with their new assignments. “I want us all in agreement here," he told them, "because my next job is convincing the business that we will be able to accomplish this mission." All heads nodded in unison. Then he dropped the bomb! "And the first way we're going to do this is to cut the cord with WH!" he proclaimed, holding up a mouse with a dangling tail.
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