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Cultural Adoption Top Challenge, IT Execs Agree
Ninety percent of the executives also said that prioritizing projects to align with business strategies and quantifiably measuring and reporting the benefits of those projects were their most pressing initiatives.
The number one impediment to effective IT management is cultural adoption, according to a survey of a recent gathering of 30 executives from 27 companies. Portfolio management solutions provider PlanView sponsored the CIO Advisory Council in Dallas, Texas, where attendees were asked to share their top management challenges, goals and best practices.
The executives agreed that preparation is key to change initiatives — no organization should expect cultural adoption to be seamless — and offered five tips to leading cultural change:
- Have a formal process to communicate with business stakeholders
- Establish baselines and continually assess progress
- Translate objectives into something meaningful for lower staff levels so that they, as well as the business stakeholders, are on board
- Make training timely and convenient
- Listen to your staff’s feedback — let them know you’ve heard them, even if you decide not to take action
"The cultural climate is definitely the biggest hurdle," says Cheryl Randle, process and capability manager in Hallmark’s Project Office. "If your organization is culturally averse to change, it will be difficult …
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