Chris Petersen

"No means no" is below the minimum standard of behaviour. Anything less than a voluntary "Yes, please, I want that with you now" means no.

A4) Partnering with peers, having/keeping/earning a seat at the big table, delivering on promises, and the usual stakes. It's working when folks from the #CIO all the way down the org chart have IT-biz collaboration stories to tell and outcomes to share. #CIOChat

“Taking people on the journey.” This is one of the most important management and culture-shaping techniques IMO. And why storytelling is so critical to catch people up. Without that context, change change isn’t directed + doesn’t make much sense. #CIOChat

A2) Still tending the scars from massive out-sourcing in my last #IT org. Which both is and isn't an answer to the question. Stripping a skeleton crew for spare parts and out-sourcing to another part of the world is still a "culture". #CIOChat

Some folks are discussing the possibility of an #AI bubble that could burst with profound consequences and ripple effects. Do your guests think that's realistic? @mkrigsman #cxotalk

Is there a balance we can strike between #AI regulation and AI innovation, especially given the velocity of change and the billions / trillions of $$$ riding on the success of the big AI businesses? @mkrigsman #cxotalk

That’s a key success factor: Storytelling for culture development can’t just be the CIO. It has to be from those bought-in as well. Then it gets a life of its own. #CIOChat

A3) I was never a fan of the everyone's a techie / needs to code or every org is a technology org mantras. On the other hand, #IT can't stop with IT anymore. Every framework and a lot of tools span the org and *can* be used to bind it together as a whole > the parts. #CIOChat

#CIOChat A2 - This can be partnering with different parts of the business like Internal Comms and P&C to show where technology helps and learn more about the gaps. It is also important to take people on the journey - we are using this to facilitate a certain behavior or outcome.

Very much agree. #Changeagents are ‘central’ to unleashing distributed innovation. See what leads to “waves of innovation” in my experience. Just be ready to manage them (and put guardrails on.) #CIOChat

The CIO definitely needs to set the tone for IT and also needs to continue to work on that across the business. We need to leverage our champions in this effort as well. #CIOChat

#CIOChat A1 - It ebbs and flows. There are definitely more opportunities to shape culture with tools the way they are today but the old thinking of IT in the back room still persists which can make influencing hard. Education and storytelling are great tools.

A1) Thinking back over #CIOs I've served recently, it was about 50/50 that they seemed to influence culture much at all. The ones who did were very deliberate about it, for good or ill. #CIOChat

Good afternoon, #CIOChat, from sunny and steamy Illinois!

Lenovo (so far) isn't a name I usually hear in talks about building out hyperscale / #AI data centers in the U.S. What roles are you playing (and looking to play in the future) in the AI supply chain? @mkrigsman #cxotalk

"Trying to make every single DNS query observable can be terribly costly." And zero trust pretty much makes every DNS request a must re-verify situation. Good cybersecurity has a high performance cost. Many are still unwilling to pay it. #CIOChat

Observability and "reconciliation between enterprise systems as well." Yes, this is a very fruitful and much needed evolution. Observability usually takes individual systems in isolation. More holistic + integrated observability is the next maturity level. #CIOChat

A4) They probably should be, and we probably should. However! I'd prefer not to spark another wave of vendor consolidation or massive tool bloat. Emphasizing standards and interoperability may be our best bet in the long run. #CIOChat

A3) I'll try to resist the "It's #DNS! It's always DNS!" mantra. 😇 But, that's absolutely the kind of thing that lurks under the surface in many orgs. Some of the worst laggards treat all those kinds of services (inside and out) as run-only with no life cycle or plan. #CIOChat

A2) Plus every infernal SaaS vendor! Opportunities to make shadow* folks feel like first-class members of the community, to further enrich the data over all, and to create new opportunities to monetize data "exhaust" from those systems as well. #CIOChat