CIO Wisdom II: More Best Practices

The Future of IT Strategic Planning: Enterprise Architecture and the Adaptive Leader

All that said, we come to the heart of the matter: What's a pragmatic CIO do to survive and thrive? First, he or she needs to recognize that the paradigm of custom products, a monolithic system, one-off solutions to problems, and an accretive, complex manner of working and conjoining systems is becoming a thing of the past. The new paradigm capitalizes on commoditization, stressing modular elements, coupled resources, considered solutions, and an improved and improving environment in which as much as possible remains transparent (Figure 17.1).

Figure 17.1. Paradigm shift.

Second, the CIO needs to be cognizant of what this new model makes possible: reproducible ...