The CIO/CPO Relationship: A New Dynamic Duo?

Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine's Management MBA program, an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, and on the boards of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Wood is a sought after presenter of HELIX workshops and seminars in both the U.S. and Europe.

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What happens when a CIO and CPO team up to pursue positive change within an organization? What happens when you marry strategic, forward-looking innovative ways to improve how the organization thinks about and taps its information assets with a strategic approach to managing the organization’s project related assets? What happens can be acceleration in the ability of the organization to produce and compete like never before.

If you ever want to know what it is like to be a voice in the wilderness, try being a strategic thinking, forward-looking CIO. It can be a lonely place for a CIO who is continuously evangelizing the leadership team on ways to better use information to drive the business forward. But there is hope, and that hope comes in the person of the Chief Project Officer--whose job it is to best deploy the organization’s project-related assets. Together, these two C-level executives can form a formidable team--especially since most major business process-related projects have a huge IT component and most groundbreaking advancements in using information more effectively and strategically need to make their way into the project portfolio.

The CIO/CPO team can create win/win/win outcomes. For the CIO, the win takes the form of delivering high-impact IT solutions. For the CPO, the win is the deployment of high-value projects. For the organization, …

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