How do you take time in your busy day to just think and plan? Especially with the constant stream of operational demands – the weeds – knocking on your door and appearing at the email in-box. A recent article in CIO Magazine suggest tactics such as staying focused, setting aside scheduled non-operational time during the day, delegating to staff and outsourcing commodity work. I find blogging is a really helpful exercise, allowing me to pull together ideas I’ve gathered from various sources and think through how they relate to my own experiences. Conferences and workshops are always a great way to get out of the day-to-day and gain some perspective – particularly if you are also contributing through a presentation to your colleagues. It is all too easy to allow time to get eaten up through many small needs and distractions. We all owe it to ourselves to make a conscious decision to create time for planning, general information gathering, and strategic thinking.
How to Make Time for Strategy – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership
One item that showed up on every CIO’s top-three list was “You were hired to be strategic, but you are forced to spend most of your time on operational issues.” I spoke to five of the Council’s most strategy-minded CIOs about how they managed to get out of the operational morass.
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