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CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-respect dept.

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."

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  1. CEOs have important priorities by alphatel · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

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    1. Re:CEOs have important priorities by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Funny

      Debug: CEO attempted to exclusively lock all system resources.
      Informational: You have set TZ to 'US/Eastern'. Be advised CEOs in this locale are considered deities by the locals and worshipped.
      Debug: CEO attempted to delete immutable directory /home/finances/incriminating_evidence

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    2. Re:CEOs have important priorities by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

      > I left the private sector
      > moved to the corporate world

      I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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  2. Re:Conversely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, c'mon, how many Fortune 500 companies are there?

    500.

  3. Re:Then why is my program in the business school? by AlamedaStone · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  4. Put it in words they understand by sirlark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make the T-shirt and wear it to the office!

    MANAGEMENT is the BIGGEST COST CENTRE