"Leadership Spotlight" includes interviews with Chapter Presidents, SIM Board members, Management Council members and other SIM leaders. "Leadership Spotlight" will not only highlight SIM’s leadership and chapters, but it will offer insight from our leaders on topics, treads and issues facing the Society, our chapters and the IT industry.
An archive of interviews will be found HERE.
March 2013
Name: Keri Pearlson
SIM Role: SIM Austin President
Question 1 | Question 2 | Question 3 | Question 4 | Question 5
The Austin chapter of SIM
turned 1-year old two months ago, in January this year. We began in fall
of 2011 with a series of get togethers at a local restaurant with the help and
guidance of leaders from the Houston and Dallas chapters, and by January 2012
we became a full-fledged chapter of our own. Like other SIM
chapters, we meet monthly and have had a wide array of speakers, meetings and
events. We have an incredibly talented and dedicated executive team
which makes my role fun and energizing. In keeping with the local Austin culture, our
chapter includes senior IT leaders, academics, CTOs from local high-tech
companies and a handful of leaders from vendor companies who support our goals.
Like our city, our chapter is vibrant and growing and the credit goes to our
great members and our energetic leaders.
As
the founding President, my goals are to create a strong foundation for our
chapter, and to build a compelling road map for where we want to go. Our
first year was a resounding success. We completed our incorporation
process, we had interesting, engaging programming and we grew our membership
from 0 to about 45 members. Our volunteers on our Board learned how to
work together to create a high-performing team. For our second year, we
spent the first two months creating a strategic plan and we will work on
implementing that plan over the next few years. Our strategic plan 2
defining (strategic) priorities and one support priority, and each priority has
specific initiatives we plan to do over the next few years. Now it’s time
to socialize and operationalize the plan.
3. What are the hottest trends in the IT industry?
For
our community, the hottest trends seem to be mobility/BYOD, social IT, big
data/analytics, and cloud. We also see a lot of interest in IT issues
like security, change management/transformation, innovation and finding the
right people to hire.
An archive of interviews will be found HERE.
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