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CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs
Qedward writes in with a link about the gap between the tech side of business and the bean counters. "CIOs are being dismissed by CEOs as too techie and not aligned with business activities. According to recent Gartner survey of 220 CEOs across the world, business leaders expect spending on IT to rise, but without a corresponding rise in the importance of the role of the CIO within the organization. CIOs appear to be failing in the eyes of CEOs in terms of alignment with the rest of the business. The research showed the stereotype of the head of IT being too preoccupied with technical issues to be effective business leaders persists. He said they were perceived as unable to bring a breadth of business perspective to the table."
Alert: CEOs also don't like CFOs who tell them they are losing money.
Notice: CEOs don't like COOs who inform them that cancelling the pension fund is illegal.
Warning: CEOs don't like CIOs who spend money on "infrastructure" instead of "apps".
When the foot seeks the place of the head, the line is crossed. Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.
That's okay CEOs appear to be failing in the eyes of everyone else.
I never did understand why executive management is considered so much more important than other roles or deserving of so much more pay. They specialize in communication, they communicate with other departments and other organizations, that's their job.
How is that skill any more demanding or important than a technical skill?
Last time I checked a decent IT degree requires just as much if not more work than an MBA, there is also a glut of MBAs out there looking for work. So what makes executive management any less replaceable?
I mean, c'mon, how many Fortune 500 companies are there?
500.
CEOs don't care about "cutting corners dangerously", causing potential problems in some nebulous "future", they only care about this quarters stock price. By the time problems develop from their shortsightedness, it will be Someone Else's Problem... because they will have long ago jumped out the window on a golden parachute and now be running for president while claiming they "created jobs" as a Bain Capital Corporate Raider.
Corporate raiders are people too, my friend.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
Make the T-shirt and wear it to the office!
MANAGEMENT is the BIGGEST COST CENTRE
Good god, man, that's barbaric! Wouldn't the stocks be more appropriate?