Leadership Tips For Driving IT Modernization and Transformation
Digital transformation and IT modernization initiatives require strong leaders to lead an organization through change – and not just technology and process change. Mindsets, organizational principles and policies, as well as combatting resistance to changing the status quo are major activities in these types of initiatives. Recently, I blogged about a highly successful initiative at NYU Lagone Health. Now let’s delve into some of their leadership activities and strategies. I believe executives can gain tips from how they handled these challenges at NYU.
Choosing The Right Leaders
Jim Song, former Vice President, IT Infrastructure and Shared Services, was brought into the organization to lead the IT change effort. He soon recognized the need to bring other leaders into the organization. “We had to redo the org structure pretty much from the ground up. I had to hire new people, get rid of some folks that just weren’t the right people and then put in place the right mindset,” says Song.
Song says the key folks they hired filled gaps where they didn’t have people with the necessary skills in some roles. But he says there were also some people who just weren’t on the bandwagon and needed to be replaced.
