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Staying in Touch at MIT
This week I attended the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) Sloan School of Management Summer Session in Cambridge for a full week of immersion into the subject of how to generate business value from IT. What a treat!
Day 1 was focused on IT Governance and Business Operating Models, so you know I enjoyed it thoroughly. I was able to spend some time talking to Peter Weill, the current Godfather of IT Governance and my hero, who addressed the group. Since joining CA, I've been lucky to have the opportunity to work with Peter on a couple of IT Investment Portfolio Management webcasts.
I learned a lot from listening to the comments and questions from the IT and business executives in the audience. The opportunity to interact with such a large and diverse group of executives was my primary reason for attending. Their experiences, insights and challenges are critical to help me stay in touch with the day-to-day machinations of IT. I need to stay current on the issues of the day so that I can understand and articulate the relevant benefits of IT Governance.
Your experiences, insights and challenges are just as valuable to me for the same reasons I listed above. As always, I invite you to share them with me.
More blogs to come on my experience at MIT.
About Steve Romero
Steve Romero is the IT Governance Evangelist at CA, Inc. In this capacity, Romero acts as a strong advocate for the customer, speaking around the world to users, prospective customers, industry organizations and IT luminaries to identify and communicate IT governance best practices. His mission is to help IT organizations improve the effectiveness of their initiatives and their engagement with internal customers. Romero’s areas of focus include developing ITG processes, improving ITG maturity, optimizing IT portfolio decisions, aligning IT with the corporate strategy and maximizing IT’s return on investment. Romero is an innovative, passionate IT professional with over 30 years experience working in almost every area of IT. For the past 10 years his career has focused on helping large enterprises run their IT departments like a business. Steve is a recognized expert in IT Governance, IT program and project management and business process management. He is a Certified Project Management Professional, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, ITIL Foundation Certified, a Certified Process Master, and a Certified Computer Professional. Romero’s extensive technical and IT leadership background started in the US Navy before joining Pacific Bell where he founded numerous ground-breaking governance processes. He then joined Pacific Technology Consulting to create, launch and lead their IT project management consulting practice. Romero worked at Charles Schwab and the California State Automobile Association as an IT Director where he resumed leading the establishment of formal process management and IT Governance processes. Romero is a member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). He is a San Francisco Chapter committee member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the President of the Information Technology Service Management Forum (itSMF) San Francisco Local Interest Group. He is a Board Member for the Center for Electronic Business at San Francisco State University and is a regular guest speaker in their Masters Program. Romero attended the University of LaVerne, graduation cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management.
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