The leadership agenda document outlines the strategic priorities and responsibilities for leading an IT department, including developing department-wide strategic plans and communication of goals, managing employee engagement, overseeing organizational design and the executive team, ensuring compliance with PCI and SOX standards, making staffing and capital investment decisions, managing vendor relationships and contracts, and leading various department meetings and committees.

1. Leadership Agenda: Example
•Department-level strategic
planning/prioritization
•Cross-functional strategy
•Department-level communication of goals and
objectives
•Organizational design
•Employee engagement and retention
•Executive team relationship management
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•Functional and Technical design
•Vendor execution
•Day-to-day support of functional areas
•Operational leadership of IT
•Annual operating plan
•Departmental finance decision-making
•Monthly business reviews
•PCI & SOX compliance
•Staffing decisions
•Optimize IT capital investments
•Strategic initiatives IT is supporting for functional
areas
•IT roadmap
•Vendor partnership
•Contract negotiations/management
•Oracle relationship management
•Participation in capital approval mtgs
•Participation in CRM steering committee
•Lead IT monthly dept. meetings
•Lead IT steering committee
•Weekly direct report staff meetings
•Support of mentor program