The emerging role of IT leadership in local government

Cook, Matthew; Sutherland, Megan

doi:10.1145/2691195.2691304

“…They work as a change agent, role model, and advocate for technology innovation that improves the community and life of the community people. They also engage the users of technology in the decision-making for the community so that the users can help develop the tools used for serving the community and accomplish the task of the leadership process (Cook and Sutherland 2014). The leaders also share the data and technology to other communities to improve service delivery and quality of life.…”

Section: Technological Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Leadership: Types and Functions

Saha¹

2021

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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From the traditional organizational perspective, leadership is to influence someone or to empower someone or who has followers. By doing so, someone can translate any vision into a reality by maximizing other efforts to achieve the goal.Local leadership is all these but in any given local context. If there is no leader in a locality, then there is no one who can speak for the local community (Sanderson and Palson 1939). Many local communities face different kinds of challenges due to changes in the economy, climate, population, government policy, etc. Some people in those communities play an essential role in navigating those challenges that erupt from time to time or influence the local people to work together for the community (Zaccaro et al. 2004;Collinson 2011;Etuk et al. 2013). Local leaders who are living within the community genuinely care about helping the community people. In regard to influencing the local people, they have a significant impact on that (Hall et al. 2020). Local potential leaders are authorities of local government institutions, school superintendents/ teachers, religious leaders, business leaders, local bureaucrats, political party leaders, and others.

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“…On the other hand, the local leaders in Australia and Canada form a social capital network by strategically targeting their interventions (Dale and Newman 2010). Another study by Cook and Sutherland (2014) shows that local IT leaders and local government elected officials to need to work strategically to generate the most value of their locality (Cook and Sutherland 2014).…”

Section: Strategic Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Leadership: Types and Functions

Saha¹

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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From the traditional organizational perspective, leadership is to influence someone or to empower someone or who has followers. By doing so, someone can translate any vision into a reality by maximizing other efforts to achieve the goal.Local leadership is all these but in any given local context. If there is no leader in a locality, then there is no one who can speak for the local community (Sanderson and Palson 1939). Many local communities face different kinds of challenges due to changes in the economy, climate, population, government policy, etc. Some people in those communities play an essential role in navigating those challenges that erupt from time to time or influence the local people to work together for the community (Zaccaro et al. 2004;Collinson 2011;Etuk et al. 2013). Local leaders who are living within the community genuinely care about helping the community people. In regard to influencing the local people, they have a significant impact on that (Hall et al. 2020). Local potential leaders are authorities of local government institutions, school superintendents/ teachers, religious leaders, business leaders, local bureaucrats, political party leaders, and others.

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“…The use of Information Technology (IT) for the enhancement of learning, teaching, research and management of Higher Education is necessary to improve the quality of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (Khouja, Rodriguez, Halima, & Moalla, 2018). As IT has become one of the integral part of the HEIs, over the years many institutions have created an executive position to manage IT whose title is used in various ways to designate the IT leader including the names head of IT, IT director and IT manager (Cook & Sutherland, 2014). Over the past 20 years, the term used to refer to this position (the head of IT or IT leader) is the Chief Information Officer or CIO (Dlamini, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Roles and Leadership Behavior of Chief Information Officers (Cios)

Waheed

2022

JISDT

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Chief Information Officer (CIO) plays a very important role in an organization as CIO is the IT leader who ensures effective IT employment in organizations. The aim of this study was to explore the roles and leadership behaviors of the CIO in HEIs in Malaysia. This study, which employed semi-structured one-on-one interviews, was conducted with former and current CIOs of two public universities of Malaysia. The interviews were transcribed, and the interview data were analyzed thematically. The results indicated that the main role of CIOs is managing IT infrastructure, handling HEI’s IT requirements, governance of IT in HEIs and strategic planning. It is also found that CIOs should have interpersonal skills, IT knowledge, managerial knowledge and skills and knowledge about HEIs’ requirements. Furthermore, CIOs should exhibit Transformational and Transactional leadership behaviors to be effective IT leaders.

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The emerging role of IT leadership in local government

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Local Leadership: Types and Functions

Local Leadership: Types and Functions

Local Leadership: Types and Functions

Exploring the Roles and Leadership Behavior of Chief Information Officers (Cios)

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