CSC CIO David McCue has been named one of Computerworld’s 2008 Premier 100 IT Leaders. The 2008 Premier 100 IT Leaders honors notable IT executives who are driving strategy and innovation at their organizations. Among his many initiatives, McCue is currently focusing on supporting CSC’s Project Accelerate, equipping his increasingly virtual workforce, and deploying IT solutions that can be tailored to fit CSC’s diverse employees and business units. McCue recently talked to us about his goals for CSC.

“To be CIO of large multinational company, you have to have a good sense of the businesses of all your divisions – and their drivers. I deal with 91,000 people, a wide variety of industries, and dozens of countries. What may make perfect sense to one group might not make any sense to another group.

My priority is to make sure our employees and business units have tools they need individually and collectively to be successful, to be empowered to achieve results for our clients. CSC is organized in terms of an extremely aggressive virtual workforce. Many face-to-face meetings have been replaced with faceless virtual interactions. The challenge in this virtual world is to move toward classes of IT services that are conceived, designed, managed and delivered globally, but with appropriate business unit tailoring and implementation. IT must enable, rather than restrain.

Project Accelerate requires us to look for ways to deliver faster, and that has changed the way I approach my job. I always say, ‘Let’s not let perfect get in the way of better.’ By that I mean it’s better to deliver a series of incremental improvements early on, so the client can start seeing immediate benefits, than to wait and deliver everything in a ‘big bang.’ CSC has been used to large, seven-year outsourcing projects, where you could spend 15 months making a transition. We simply don’t have that luxury anymore. We’ve got to bring things to fruition faster.

What I like most about my job is the challenge of juggling the multitude of projects we’ve got going at once. It’s definitely not boring. I also enjoy being able to make a difference, for individual employees, and for our business. I want to make the whole CSC greater than the sum of its parts.”