DECEMBER 2018CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM8useful tool for developing leadership insights is to create plausible scenarios and work through the implications of the extremes. While the use cases I am providing are fairly common, you can introduce your own into the framework and work out the logical options for your particular situation. This third installment of my series on a leadership framework for building elite teams focuses on resources and urgency. I previously introduced the framework and two practical use cases around the newness of the leader versus organizational buy-in and pressure to change versus staff appetite for change. This installment will explore how your level of available resources interacts with the urgency of the problem you are trying to solve.Building Your Team to Full Potential Requires Situational AwarenessIT leaders all rely on effective teams to be successful. Tactically, you can hire new talent, buy consulting, conduct training, increase awards and more to improve performance. However, success often requires a more strategic approach, and you must understand the work environment to create the right conditions for improvement.Your situation will be unique. Just like every IT technical environment is unique, so are the interactions between your team and the organizational environment in which it operates. We will consider the relationship between the levels of resources available versus the urgency of the problem that must be addressed. Resource Constraints are Common but ManageableMany times throughout my career I have felt under-resourced for what I needed to accomplish. At other times it was not unusual to have sufficient resources, but not necessarily with the right skillsets. Too rarely I felt I had everything I needed to easily accomplish my goals. In every scenario, my responsibility was to find a way to get the job done. And in every scenario, it all depended on the team and how effective they could be. The method I used was very much impacted by the urgency of the mission I needed to accomplish. Plentiful resources need to be handled differently in an urgent situation than they Level of Resources versus Urgency of ProblemDOUGLAS DUNCAN, CIO, COLUMBIA INSURANCE GROUPADouglas DuncanIN MY View
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