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CXO Corner
Kara Marx, chief information officer for Methodist Hospital of Arcadia, discusses the challenges of balancing strategic goals with innovation, building consensus among diverse constituencies, and simplifying communication and methodologies.
Kara Marx is not your typical CIO. With her clinical background in nursing and healthcare consulting, her path to healthcare IT and CIO of Methodist Hospital of Arcadia was from a clinical, not a technological, perspective. She believes that senior managers must drive business value through IT by practicing open communication, setting achievable, reasonable expectations, and cultivating vendor relationship that are mutually beneficial.
In this interview, Marx discusses the challenges of balancing strategy with innovation, building consensus among a wide variety of constituents, and simplifying communication, frameworks and methodologies.
What does strategic focus mean to you?
Strategic focus is our ability to keep our attention on our pre-defined plans, maintaining our energy and enthusiasm and avoiding tempting distractions that come our way. Distractions are common in IT, because technology changes …
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