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IT-Know How  Management Skills  Emotional Intelligence
The IT
Challenge for the top management

2. The Current Challenges
 Cost pressures
 Processes need to be increasingly automated.
 Transparency
 The customer always has a better market transparency.
 Speed
 Everything must go faster and faster.
 Publicity
 Very little remains hidden by the Internet.
The market will continue to change rapidly!
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3. The Situation Today
 Technicalization
 Hardly a business process is now possible without IT.
 Networks
 Many people are using more and more social media.
 Internet
 The Internet always permeates more aspects of life.
 Globalization
 The world is just a click away.
IT increasingly dominated the whole life!
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4. What does this mean for
Companies?
 Competitiveness
 Is increasingly dominated by services around products.
 Social Media
 Social media is for a company's reputation and the brand
more important.
 Dependency
 Dependence on IT is stronger than ever.
 Time to Market
 The big ones eat the little ones no longer – now, the fast
ones eats the slow ones.
Without IT - No Business!
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5. Conclusion
 Change
 The previous cost factor IT has become a competitive
factor.
 Success
 IT systems today have a decisive role in the economic
success of a company.
 ​Speed
 Without optimal IT systems, the requirements of the
market are not met.
Without IT - no entrepreneurial success!
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6. The Reality
 IT= Technology
 IT is often still the primary technology supplier.
 IT=Software
 Business decisions are often made without the IT.
 IT=Costs
 IT is identified primarily with cost.
 IT≠Businesspartner
 The CIO is often still subordinate to the CFO.
Poor positioning of IT = competitive disadvantages!
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7. The Challenge
 The Corporate IT provides many opportunities
for new services and products, f. e.:
 … to save costs.
 … to strengthen the brand.
 … to act globally.
 … to make fans from customers.
 … to retain employees.
 … to inspire talents for the company.
 ... etc.
Use of existing potential of IT!
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8. Questions for the
Top- Management
 Positioning
 IT is crucial for the company set up correctly?
 Businessorientierung
 Thinks IT in the categories of Business?
 Management
 Is the Head of IT Business Partner at eye level?
 Integration
 Is IT an integral part of corporate strategy?
Optimal positioning of IT and IT management!
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9. The Chance
 If you use not full the potential of your IT, it is
possible:
 … to reduce the cost.
 … to increase the speed.
 … to offer new services and products.
 … to retain employees and to get new.
 … to excite customers.
 … etc.
Greater economic success!
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10. CIOConsultingTeam
IT-Know How  Management Skills  Emotional Intelligence
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