8DEC-JAN, 2018Becoming the Right IT Leader for Business PartnersBy Louis Martinez, SVP-Digital Consumer Data Services, CitiThe downward slope of the year in which we, as technology leaders and decision makers, push to ensure our technology budget is on track to meet the goals we established late last year while providing the business benefit we promised to the executive team. Many of our customers will go into "freeze" mode as we all prepare for the very busy holiday season. We won't dare touch our Production environments during this key time of the year, so it is imperative that we pull in 12 months' worth of planned projects into 8 months. Our IT leadership committee has done a great job ensuring no net-new projects entered the delivery pipeline so far, this year. Another year of completed next-generation technology projects deployed across the enterprise yielding long term success for the organization! I love living in Utopia.A high percentage of IT Leaders attempt to work at the speed of business, and it is nearing light-speed. The connected world has truly opened the door to extremely dynamic business opportunities and new sources of revenue or saving revenue. Adapt or perish. We're also learning, every day, to be more connected with our customers and clients. All powered by innovative thinkers and talented teams that can deploy complex solutions into the wild. This is not Utopia. This is the real world. Every day. Striving to stay ahead of the competition. Working to strengthen your organization's brand. How do we do it? Do we work in our sleep? Does our team work in their sleep? Are we reporting the truth to our executive staff about what we are really achieving? I certainly hope so because you cannot IN MYOPINIONLouis Martinez
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