{"id":1097,"date":"2014-04-17T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enseva.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-04-29T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:22:02","slug":"top-healthcare-executives-expect-it-managers-to-be-transformational-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Top Healthcare Executives expect IT Managers to be transformational leaders."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Healthcare Executives Expect IT Managers to be Transformational Leaders.<\/p>\n<p>I never will forget one of my employee\u2019s descriptions of success to me many years ago. He said, \u201cAny basketball player can dribble the ball. They can pass the ball and they can shoot the ball. But what really matters is how many points they can score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just like basketball, healthcare is competitive and as reimbursements continue to get squeezed the best IT leaders just don\u2019t dribble, pass and shoot. They score. In today\u2019s environment transformational leaders will always outscore their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a great article that really nails what Healthcare CEO\u2019s are looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcareitnews.com\/news\/cio-no-longer-just-%E2%80%98-it-guy%E2%80%99?topic=17,24\">http:\/\/www.healthcareitnews.com\/news\/cio-no-longer-just-%E2%80%98-it-guy%E2%80%99?topic=17,24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The writer talks about how hard it is for the \u201cIT Guy\u201d to shed the \u201cIT Guy\u201d perception. We believe one of the ways you can do this is to think outside the box. Dribbling, passing and shooting is doing the same old thing every other IT Guy is doing\u2014putting servers in the closet, hiring more IT staff and asking for more budget\u2014but the Transformational Leader is working hard to reduce costs and to become much more efficient, reliable and secure. Cutting back on IT staff and outsourcing key initiatives like Disaster Recovery, rather than increasing budgets with new hardware, they\u2019re moving their IT infrastructure to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Not only does this transformation of your IT provide for a much more secure, reliable and more cost effective infrastructure but it\u2019ll also help you attract better IT talent. Employees are no longer happy with doing the same old thing.<\/p>\n<p>Just like top IT Executives, Enseva is a Transformational Leader who consistently thinks outside the box. In fact, we just helped one midsize organization save more than $500,000 in just three years by eliminating their 3 IT \u201cclosets\u201d and moving them to Enseva IaaS. The result has been increased reliability, better security and better cost management. Oh, and one more thing, as the CEO was touring the Enseva facility with the CIO and Director of IT, do you think the CEO had the same old \u201cIT Guy\u201d perception?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Healthcare Executives Expect IT Managers to be Transformational Leaders. I never will forget one of my employee\u2019s descriptions of success to me many years ago. He said, \u201cAny basketball player can dribble the ball. They can pass the ball and they can shoot the ball. But what really matters is how many points they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enseva.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}