Core Offering Ideas by Constituency

Core Offering Ideas by Constituency April 2013

Across all Groups

 Crowdsourcing solutions – get topics/requests from membership, then find “experts” within SIM who can discuss, advise or offer pre- constructed frameworks or solutions (in writing or via webcast)

 Coaching/Mentoring/Networking Ideas o Have an event where large cap CIOs can network with and mentor small cap CIOs

o Connect new CIOs (and/or small cap CIOs) with experienced (and/or large cap) ones

o Career advisory sessions to help Senior IT execs (serial CIO’s?) figure out their ”next career” – whether CEO, consultant, STEM teacher, Non-profit CIO etc.

o Speakers bureau of CIOs (original said “CIOs for hire”)

o Executive coaching/mentoring of new IT Directors/CIOs

o Offer services of Emeritus Members (?is this a membership type? does it mean “retired?”) as consultants to less experienced IT executive members

o Match mentors with protégés and/or peers by industry and/or region

o Connect CIOs to Entrepreneurs – both to help the start-up gain access to CIOs AND to give SIM members access to leading-edge technology early in the cycle

o “Ratings” of vendors and/or products; similar to Angie’s List or Trip Advisor

 Book Related Ideas o Promote books by SIM authors

o Secure discounts on books (by both SIM authors and others) Some examples of SIM-member-authored books include: World Class IT by Peter High (published 2009) The Quantum Age of IT by Charles Araujo (published 2012)

of 6 o Have local booksellers at SIM events with an assortment of RLF books and SIM-authored books for sale

of 6  Video Ideas o Create video on Outreach done by various chapters – to be used in membership recruiting

o Showcase a “CIO Member” personal story in print and/or YouTube video for chapter membership recruiting (The Nashville Technology Council has one of these – I can get it for you if you want.)

o Create videos of SIMposium (and regional conference?) speakers for two uses: give a copy to speaker as a “thank you” and archive for future viewing by SIM members (to learn and/or to select speakers)

 Special Interest Group Ideas o Provide virtual forums/webcasts around an industry or special interest group (Healthcare, Enterprise Architecture, etc.) moderated by National, offered once a quarter

o STEM in a box – how to/playbooks on how to set up career shadowing, how to do workshops for College Counselors etc.

o SIMI to produce whitepapers on trending or critical topics (e.g., STEM Skills Shortage, Cloud, BYOD)

o Innovation Series: regular webinar featuring a start-up sharing their innovation/product/service; gives early access to CIOs and good visibility to start-up

o Create a SIM (national) STEM Outreach Program

o Facilitate/support Special Interest Groups (SIM Women, EA, maybe also Info Security?)

 Training/Education Ideas

o Variations on RLF for other-than-large-corporate constituency . Financially accessible (i.e. $2-3K instead of $7-9K) . Less travel (Blended learning, some in person, some online) . Focused on management development as well as leadership development (i.e. more operational in nature since many small IT org managers/directors may not have had formal training on basic management skills such as delegating, requiring accountability, coaching for improved performance.) . Versions of RLF focused on vendors or academics – they need leadership skills too, but the variety of skills needed may

of 6 look different in their industries

o Post-RLF leadership development offerings . Some way for RLF’ers to have a SIMI-sponsored ”community” if they are not allowed to join the local SIM Chapter (National RLF LinkedIn Group? Moderated by RLF facilitators?) . Post-RLF experience – 3 to 5 years after RLF, what should the “next step” in leadership development look like?

o SIM University (attendees don’t have to be SIM members – revenue generator) . Classes/webinars to teach how to Integrate Quality (ISO), Six Sigma, Lean etc. with IT . Classes on IT Standards (ITIL, ISO), Best Practices (Maybe teaching these classes would be a good “next career” for retired IT executives or consultant SIM members?) . Professional Development Program Different from RLF – focused on interpersonal skills like conflict resolution, influencing, communications and/or on business skills – industry, reading financial forms (P&L statement etc.) . Include on-demand videos and other online/downloadable materials as part of SIM University . Have a roadmap of which topics - so people at various levels of organizations (large or small) will know what is appropriate for them, what pre-reqs are expected

Small Corporate IT Organizations  RLF “lite” focused on small IT organizations (small might mean <$500MM or <$1B AND <100 people or <20 people)

 Peer to peer roundtables with large cap CIOs (at SIM events or even SIM Chapter meetings – bring in large cap CIOs to Chapter with small cap CIOs)

 Discounted version of APC ($5-$10K buy-in vs $30K for current APC) and with a focus on topics more relevant to small companies and IT organizations

Academics  Research and Class Related o Provide IT practitioner (including CIOs) and/or vendor speakers for college and university classes o Database of IT practitioners willing to talk to academics, to let them create Case Studies, Role Plays and do information gathering via interviews o Connect academics to practitioners for Research

of 6 o Create a grant (annual?) of $10K for which SIM member universities can compete --- topic must contribute to “filling the IT pipeline” (recruiting, retaining IT students and employees) or to “advancing the technology profession” (new career paths? New ways of applying technology to business? New ways of teaching technology?) o Access to a database of SIM members information (e.g. who is a SIM member working at Dell?) combined with SIM agreeing to survey members and share raw data from those surveys

 Allow academic SIM members to identify one or two top seniors (undergrad) who are CompSci or MIS majors to attend a SIM monthly meeting or event (SIMposium, Regional conference) – SIMI to pay for student’s attendance

 Provide a searchable database of IT internships at SIM member companies

 Pay-per-click ads for Tech Academic Programs on simnet.org

 SIMI to host affinity group session for Academics to share curriculum ideas across the country

 Provide a CIO Advisory Board with IT execs from all geographic areas to give input to colleges/universities on what skills, knowledge and competencies corporate America expects in CS/MIS Bachelor degree holders

 Monthly Thought Leadership Series – webinar with a book author or academic researcher on top issues facing members

Vendors/Consultants  Vendor pays SIMI to gather opinions on products, issues; participants get copy of results

 SIMI negotiates discounts on products/services of member vendors and consultants (would this be related to the Procurement special interest group? Should we change the name of Procurement to Sourcing?)

 Vendors offer free education on their products (this would have to be executive education or part of the discount when client is buying product)

 SIMI promotes products to SIM chapter members (in exchange for sponsorship or donations?) (My personal opinion: we don’t want to go here; we want to be vendor and product neutral.)

of 6  SIMI facilitates a quarterly consultants roundtable to promote cross- learning

 SIMI creates a national database of SIM member consultants and their expertise to help members connect with SIM member consultants across chapters/regions

 “SIMdex” --- host a Comdex-like big-hall conference with many vendors who have future technology offerings; vendors pay for space; SIM members benefit from learning about new technology