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Intellectual Capital |
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Today's
business landscape is filled with both opportunities and obstacles. The
challenge is to identify and capitalize on the opportunities, and to navigate
around the obstacles. More than ever before, timely information and agility are
vital to the continued success of an enterprise. Firms with the best
intelligence and most flexible management systems have the recipe for ongoing
competitive advantage. The true benefit of a proven executive is the wisdom s/he brings to the position. Wisdom is driven home by hard lessons from having "been there, done that" and augmented with information and insight. Executives provided by Technology Executives Networking Group are selected via a credentialing process that screens for those with broad and deep executive experience. Once identified, their individual talents are enhanced and their reach is extended through the collective wisdom of the TENG team. No matter what experience an executive has, s/he can't know everything. There is however, a base body of knowledge and insight required by in the executives provided by TENG. These profiles have been developed targeting the requirements of the markets served by TENG: start-ups, turnarounds, and the ongoing operations of mid-sized companies, Fortune 500 or divisions in each supported industry (manufacturing, technology, consumer product, financial services, healthcare, chemicals, and government). The clear benefit
to this process to the companies acquiring a TENG executive is an executive
that is experience and knowledgeable. The attained
knowledge of each individual is then further enhanced by access to the immense
amount of intellectual capital available through the TENG
network. Information Technology leaders, CIO's, and CTO's are hired to bring new ideas and understanding to their new companies. In their early tenure with the firm, this is generally not a problem. Everything and everybody at the company is new to them and everything they do or say is new to the company. As they become engrossed in the company, their ability to maintain their non-company knowledge base and networking contacts is diminished. On the other hand, the shareholders and company's need for the Information Technology leaders to have answers to new issues and complex, thorny problems continues to grow. So how does the ordinary Information Technology leader solve this
problem? Generally, not well. As a result we see the average CIO /
CTO tenure decreasing and directors and shareholders going elsewhere to get new
ideas and insights. Is this expensive and disruptive?
Absolutely! Does it need to be the case? Absolutely not! |