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Title: Leadership and Technology: Innovation and Excellence in the Information Renaissance


1
Leadership and TechnologyInnovation and
Excellence in the Information Renaissance
  • Tony Piazza
  • Excellence in Leadership
  • February 6, 2006

2
Tonights Agenda
  • Your Facilitator Tony Piazza
  • Basis of education
  • Leadership
  • Technology The Diffusion of Innovation
  • Leaders and Change
  • Lessons Learned

3
Your Facilitator Tony Piazza
  • Professional
  • Support Consultant Ontario Systems LLC.
  • Education
  • B.A. Telecommunications BSU, 2004
  • -Successfully completed EIL program
  • M.S. Information and Communication Sciences
    BSU, 2005
  • -CICS Graduate Assistant facilitated last
    years Leadership and Technology Workshop

4
Basis of Education YOU as the educated elite
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • AAC
  • Attitude
  • Awareness
  • Consciousness
  • ACTIVITY Get some paper handy!

5
What is Leadership?
  • John Kotter, Harvard Business School
  • "A Force for Change How leadership differs from
    Management"
  • Consistency/Order vs. Vision/Change
  • White Water Consulting, LLC http//www.whitewate
    rconsultingllc.com/manage_lead.html

6
What is Leadership?
  • Tom Peters Thriving on Chaos

Master Paradox Develop an Inspiring Vision Manage
by example Practice Visible Management Pay
Attention! Defer to the Front Line Delegate Pursu
e Horizontal Management by Bashing
Bureaucracy Evaluate Everyone on His or Her Love
of Change Create a Sense of Urgency
7
Technology The Diffusion of Innovation
  • Everett Rogers Diffusion of Innovation
  • Etymology of Innovation (from Latin)
  • In In
  • Novos New

8
Technology is a Measure of Change
  • Leadership Lessons from Star Trek
  • Change as exemplified in Star Trek VI The
    Undiscovered Country

9
My Field Information-Communication Technology
(ICT)
  • Communication is the Channel
  • Information is the Message
  • Technology is

10
Leaders and Change
  • Leaders make change happen!
  • Dont seek 100 adoption a pipe dream!
  • Mark Twain on change
  • Habit is habit and is not to be thrown
  • out the window, but coaxed down
  • the stair

11
Technology is a not a magic panacea!
  • Panacea - definition from wn panacea n
    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
    once sought by the alchemists syn nostrum,
    cure-all
  • Leaders (YOU) care about innovation!

12
Innovation!
  • Leaders are upfront and early adapters
  • Static vs. dynamic (Management vs. Leadership)
  • Anyone can manage, you are leaders!

13
Technology is a tool tools are tools
  • When all you have is a hammer, all problems tend
    to be nails
  • What are the ICT tools for leaders?
  • "In high tech, it is as if we are moving slowly
    on a ship, with new technologies looming, taking
    shape, through a fog of unknowingness." from
    Harvard Business Review, July-Aug.,1996
    "Increasing Returns and the New World of
    Business" by W. Brian Arthur
  • Have the heart of the explorer -- Jay E.
    Gillette

14
Another Activity!
  • Another sheet of paper!?!
  • Mark an X on where you fit in the curve
  • Digital Photography
  • Digital Video Cameras
  • Portable MP3
  • Blogs
  • Podcasting
  • Vodcasting
  • RSS
  • VoIP (Skype, Vonage, etc)

15
Leadership in technologyIs it a skill,
attitude or knowledge?
  • What
  • do YOU think?

16
The Challenge
  • View technology as change leadership as
    inclination to change
  • Questions/comments/feedback

Prepared for Excellence in Leadership by Tony
Piazza, 2006. Based on ideas, used with
permission, by Jay E. Gillette et al, 2005.
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