Background:
ABX Corp is a fortune 1000 Financial Services Company. Karen Brooks is the new CEO. The prior CEO and CIO were asked to leave ABX because of the costly failure of several strategic I.T. projects. Furthermore, I.T. is not perceived as being “aligned” with business.
Karen was a Senior V.P. of Sales and Marketing at a competitor of ABX. She has minimal I.T. experience. Karen has interviewed many candidates for the open CEO position. She has narrowed the list down to several potential candidates. Karen is looking for someone that has a solid understanding of …“what it takes for a company to achieve I.T. success”. She does not want to experience the failures that befell her predecessors. Congratulations! You have been selected as one of the finalists for the CIO position.
Essay Assignment:
Karen would like your ideas in writing on “what it takes for a company to achieve I.T. success”. It is understood that you have limited knowledge about ABX. Your response is to be generic and not specific to ABX. Your response is not about you or your I.T. experience. Karen has met you and is familiar with your job history. Karen wants your ideas on this important topic only. She will make her final decision on who gets the CIO job based upon the responses.
In your own words, apply themes regarding the I.T. organization and the role of the CEO.Your written response must be in a professional letter format and be 1000 to 1300 words. Do not exceed the 1300 words!
When you submit your CEO assignment to Blackboard, please label your document with following naming convention “CEO_Student Name”. For example my assignment would be named CEO_RMcANDREW). Your document can be a word doc or PDF. The candidate (student) who gets the CEO job will be announced to the class. Refer to the Schedule of Topics section in this syllabus for the due date of this assignment.