In the haste to transform to digital products, many organizations hurry to ‘make up’ new roles and planning concepts without involving the existing functions or thinking through all of the needed governance and orchestration. Here we identify four common pitfalls emerging and how to leverage both existing and new roles and expertise to help avoid these problems.

An Ask the Expert session on organizational design. During this session, we'll address questions such as: What are the key to successful organizational design? What is the BEST IT organizational design? What should a CIO be mindful of when designing an organization? Please note: this session is targeted for CIOs with more than approximately 50 people in IT.

CIOs and their enterprises are challenged balancing the control and performance by failing IT governance. Weak leadership, no transparency of decision making and misaligned governance mechanisms are at the heart of symptoms indicative of IT governance gone bad. This session will address how CIOs can recognize the symptoms and apply their influence and insights to guide their enterprises toward good IT governance.

CIOs restructure their organization for many reasons, but not always for the right ones. Despite understanding that restructuring is one of the most disruptive activities for the organizational members, CIOs still start with a reorganization hoping for a better outcome. This session will dispel the myths and share the realities for why and when restructuring is the right strategy. It is not as often as we think.