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Departmental Leadership: Aligning Goals

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How should leaders address the growing need for leadership in departmental information management systems?

To what extent do departmental efforts to align goals affect the foundations of business intelligence for use at the departmental level?

To what extent does department culture support or restrict efforts by innovative teams to address department needs? Describe an example of supportive culture and an example of restrictive culture and explain how the culture has encouraged or prevented innovative teams.

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Explains questions regarding need for leadership in departmental information systems, impact of supportive and restrictive culture.

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How should leaders address the growing need for leadership in departmental information management systems?

The growing need for departmental leadership can be addressed by leaders by developing new leaders within the department itself. Organizational leaders would need to groom future leaders by providing such potential leaders with challenging opportunities, delegation of authority and decision making capability as well as training opportunities, so that they can gain valuable experience and exposure to become leaders within their departments.

Reference: diddydustin (2010); How do we develop new leaders in organizations?; Retrieved online from http://www.theleadershiphub.com/blogs/how-do-we-develop-new-leaders-organizations

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