How Techie are CIOs?
After going to the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, I forgot questioning how techie the CIOs going to truly are. I have no doubt that they’re inordinately competent when it concerns interacting with boards, empathising budgets, and negotiation magnanimous IT contracts, but what about this: One panel of four was enquired if they had Skype accounts. Just one of four did.
At present, I can sure enough empathise that an CIO shouldn’t be commiting time to yielding a personal test-drive to every newfangled start-up mentioned on TechCrunch, but Skype isn’t simply any start-up. The company has been about since 2003 and was acquired by Ebay in 2005. At any time, millions of people are utilising the product around the world to confabulate, speak, or video chat with people all over the world.
What was most scandalous was that the non-Skype utilizing CIOs didn’t seem to still empathize Skype’s business model and incriminating that Skype is an ad-supported application kinda than it’s factual freemium model.
There is a good break-down here. After 5 years, CIOs should universally understand at least how Skype works out so they can reach a intellectual decision just about whether it may be an appropriate product to add to their communications shuffle.
Robert Cringely has a column out this week considering the same issue at the CEO level. His perspectives on the expert skills at that roll sound alike:
IT Wars
Whether IT managers are promoted from within or brought from outdoors it is clear-cut that they commonly aren’t hired for their expert prowess, but kind of for their ability to get under one’s skin on with THEIR bosses, who are almost necessarily not expert. For every John Reed, who rose from IT to lead CitiCorp (and in the end gone wrong), there are a thousand CEOs who desire nothing to do with computers.
In today’s expert landscape, corporations would be good served well to look beyond the solutions presented to them from high-pitched priced sales teams with big expense budgets. They may be surprised at what they feel.
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