CEO Impressions – Because it's called "running" a company

The power and pitfalls of knowing every side of the story

As a manager, your company’s ability to execute effectively cannot and does not depend on your ability to scale your own execution across superhuman multiples.

Instead, it depends on two things – first, it requires a refined ability to assimilate data from a number of different sources to formulate an accurate and complete picture of the business as it stands today – and then, leveraging that picture to formulate a clear and concise blueprint and course of action for where the business needs to be in the future.

Secondly, it depends upon your ability to gain buy-in and participation across a number of different constituents – both within your team and across the company.

The challenge of building a blueprint, gaining buy-in, and then orchestrating work across a broad spectrum of resources, is what business management excellence is all about.

Interestingly, there are a number of similarities between effective business management and effective IT management – particularly, as it relates to the CMDB. From data assimilation, to blueprint, to plan of action – the CMDB provides a central focal point -- an accurate and complete view of the IT infrastructure.

And yet, CMDB data inaccuracy is the number one cause for CMDB project failures -- followed closely by a lack of broad adoption of the CMDB across a broad set of constituents within both IT and the business.

Going forward, the CMDB must be an absolutely accurate, trusted source of IT infrastructure information. In addition, the CMDB must be widely accepted and adopted across a broad set of IT and business users within the enterprise. IT organizations will each need to address both of these challenges for CMDB projects to be successful over the long-haul.

Don’t think Managed Objects hasn’t noticed.

-- Siki