Episode 13 - The Five-Step Playbook for Team Turnarounds with Shannon Gath
State of the CIO
English - October 08, 2019 11:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsInvesting Business Technology dan kelly state of the cio negotiate with it salesforce microsoft oracle sap information technology contract negotiation it software expenses Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Working with a struggling or underperforming team? AMAG Pharmaceuticals VP and CIO Shannon Gath may have your solution with her five-step playbook.
Gath, a Boston CIO of the Year finalist for team turnarounds, uses a strategy that transforms teams from order takers to strategic thinkers. Her playbook has worked with startups, medium and large teams allowing them to create goals and heavily focus on collaboration and personal commitment for success.
Along with discussing this strategy, Gath shares her leadership styles, the tech industry topic she’s most interested in and how IT is evolving in its business capabilities.
Key takeaways:
The five-step playbook works with startups, medium and large teamsBy focusing on team collaboration and personal commitments to success, turnaround can transform members from order takers to strategic thinkersThe playbook allows teams to know what type of innovation to go after as well as learn their goalsThe fives steps: listen, validate, co-create, align and operate can help other functional areas in developing their strategic plans