Individual Assignment
Engaging in CIO-CxO "Conversations that Matter": An Interview with Peter Keen. MIS Quarterly Executive 9(1): (2010).
Hamza Lahkim Bennani
10-24-2012
MIS 3301
Dr. Chihab Benmoussa
Reflection
Q1: I have heard you say more than once that CxOs are not interested in “IT.” Can you explain what you mean by that?
Peter Keen, The chairman and advisor of Keen Innovations, answered this question very clearly, where he stated that it is important that CxOs know the importance of information systems in their company and how it can extend and integrate relationships between the companies processes. For the majority of CxOs, knowing the innards of an information system is not as crucial as knowing how
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“For yesterday’s CIOs, and many of today’s as well, it was enough to have two out of three key capabilities – personal leadership, technology leadership and business acumen. Tomorrow’s CIO will need all three.” (Brumby, 2010)
I think that CIOs should be in charge of more strategic tasks. Being a CIO and evolving well inside the company is difficult and requires certain skills that not all CxOs have. As for Peter keen, he assumes that the CIO’s role will have more importance and gets more attention within time in the future.
The following diagram illustrates the role of a CIO in an organization and how it works.
(IBM, 2008)
Q3: At your ICIS 2009 presentation you talked about “conversations that matter.” Could you expand on that?
Peter Keen in the answer of this question focused most on innovation, and how the CIOs innovation can better help an organization. Besides, Professor Keen talekd about the importance of use of the appropriate language to between CIOs. He also pointed that for a conversation to be effective, the things that should be discussed are things that are worth sharing, questioning and arguing about rather than shop-talk and social chat. For Peter keen, some intersections that are between CxOs, CIOs, IT proffesionals and educators’ dialogs, are the kind of discussions where CxOs
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You will be the only presenter for this discussion. You will also play the role of facilitator.
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Petersen (2015) in the second part of this book developed the Talker-Listener Card (abbreviated as TLC) in an effort to get people to remember to take turns talking and listening in his workshops. Petersen (2015) said "this handy little tool, the Talker-Listener Card, has helped many people significantly improve their communication, their relationships, and the cooperation of their work groups." His method can assist with stopping persons from arguing to shifting their focus to the other persons point slowly. It gives the talker, who has the problem, and the talkers’ objective would be to articulate or convey their thoughts and feelings in such a way that it does not accuse, attack, label, or judge the listener (Petersen, 2015). Also in this process the listener should remember to be or remain calm because they're not the one with the problem. One of the primary jobs of the listener is to understand while resolving an issue without disagreeing, agreeing, giving unsolicited advice or being
Patterson, K., Grenny, J., McMillan, R., & Switzler, A. (2014). Crucial conversations: Tools for talking when stakes are high (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill
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