How large decisions get made: The CIO Conversation
It's been my experience that great CIOs stay out of the way of the technical team. Here's mock conversation about SAP in the Cloud.
AWS Sales Person: You should move your SAP HANA to AWS.
CIO: Interesting. Talk to my VP of Applications.
AWS Sales Pers: The CIO thought this might be a great idea.
VP of Apps: I love the agility AWS has brought us for application development. What are the advantages of SAP in AWS?
Sales Person: <Gives Elevator Pitch>
VP of Apps: Let my team kick the tires.
VP of Apps: <Creates a tiger team to research and makes recommendations>
Team: <Get’s back to VP with recommendations>
VP: <Gives AWS Sales Person the answer and copies CIO>
CIO: <Takes stage at big tech event talking about the decision>