Planting the Flag: Leadership

Produced by: Socitm Insight

Type: Reports

At Socitm 2011 Socitm launched two complementary reports, providing support for the Planting the flag initiative: The pocket guide on leadership and A.. B… CIO: a personal view of leadership from Jos Creese, Past-President

The pocket guide on leadership is the first of six covering the strategic capabilities

• Governance
• Organisational change
• Strategic commissioning
• Shared services
• Professionalism

The personal view, a companion to the pocket guide, is a personal statement by one of the UK's most influential CIOs in the public sector about what is involved in the leadership role of the CIO. It identifies eight areas to concentrate on and contains valuable advice from a practitioner perspective.

• Focus on business value, not IT cost
• Remember it's not about the technology (mostly)
• Give IT a reputation for business innovation and efficiency
• Don't neglect the 'bread and butter'
• Understand the water reed principle
• Be an advocate for the business, not just for IT
• Build up the necessary experience
• Develop a thick skin

The remaining volumes will be published in 2012.

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Subscription	Main report
Socitm Insight Subscribers	Free
Non-Insight subscribers - Socitm members	Free
Non-Insight subscribers - all other organisations	£65
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Printed copies are available only to Insight subscribers. Electronic copies can also be downloaded by Socitm members as well as Insight subscribers.

Those who do not subscribe to Socitm Insight or are members of Socitm can purchase printed copies at £65 each.

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Why not subscribe to Socitm Insight? An additional benefit is that you will gain access to an electronic version and all the later five guides in this series as they are published, together with a host of other valuable material (eg Better connected 2012 about the state of council websites on 1 March 2012).

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Last modified: 25th July 2012