Comments on: Can a CIO be Successful Without IT Experience? http://www.ciodashboard.com/leadership/leadership-experience-whats-important-cio/ IT Strategies for CIOs and IT leaders Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:10:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms! http://www.ciodashboard.com/leadership/leadership-experience-whats-important-cio/comment-page-1/#comment-31009 Can a CIO be successful without IT experience? Define your terms! Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:44:10 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1264#comment-31009 [...] Chris Curran, “Can a CIO be Successful Without IT Experience?”, [...] [...] Chris Curran, “Can a CIO be Successful Without IT Experience?”, [...]

]]> By: Murray Wills http://www.ciodashboard.com/leadership/leadership-experience-whats-important-cio/comment-page-1/#comment-12973 Murray Wills Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:41:16 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1264#comment-12973 See my blog for more discussion on this topic also (link below)- Absolutely, once and for all, you DO need IT and business experience to be a CIO, just as you need business and finance experience to be a CFO. http://www.maxsys.co.nz/?p=798 See my blog for more discussion on this topic also (link below)- Absolutely, once and for all, you DO need IT and business experience to be a CIO, just as you need business and finance experience to be a CFO.

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]]> By: Murray Wills http://www.ciodashboard.com/leadership/leadership-experience-whats-important-cio/comment-page-1/#comment-30681 Murray Wills Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:41:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1264#comment-30681 See my blog for more discussion on this topic also (link below)- Absolutely, once and for all, you DO need IT and business experience to be a CIO, just as you need business and finance experience to be a CFO. http://www.maxsys.co.nz/?p=798 See my blog for more discussion on this topic also (link below)- Absolutely, once and for all, you DO need IT and business experience to be a CIO, just as you need business and finance experience to be a CFO.

http://www.maxsys.co.nz/?p=798

]]> By: Rom http://www.ciodashboard.com/leadership/leadership-experience-whats-important-cio/comment-page-1/#comment-10825 Rom Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:26:15 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1264#comment-10825 I agree with everyone here - the CIO absolutely needs IT experience. Too many times have I seen inept CIO's, or even any level of IT management, who have little to no IT experience and essentially need their staff to present "envelopes" to them that they can just pick one without understanding all the issues at hand. One thing in the article that I don't agree with though is: 5. Management experience in a non-IT function I don't think a CIO needs to have done a sales, marketing, or other role to be qualified for CIO - and in fact doing so I feel means that he/she isn't really committed to technology awareness (most technology people would find working in sales/marketing/etc mind numbing). Business awareness is crucial, but it really is an executive *team*. Does a CEO have to have been a CFO to be qualified? No, the CEO trusts his/her CFO to understand that part. Does a CFO have to have been a COO? No. It makes me mad how the CIO position is seen by many executive teams to be the "unwanted" position, and business people who want to make C-level will accept the position just to further their careers no matter how bad they are at it. I wonder how many of these so-called CIO's could formulate an educated decision about something as industry hyped as, say, the appropriate use of SaaS technologies. I agree with everyone here – the CIO absolutely needs IT experience. Too many times have I seen inept CIO’s, or even any level of IT management, who have little to no IT experience and essentially need their staff to present “envelopes” to them that they can just pick one without understanding all the issues at hand.

One thing in the article that I don’t agree with though is:

5. Management experience in a non-IT function

I don’t think a CIO needs to have done a sales, marketing, or other role to be qualified for CIO – and in fact doing so I feel means that he/she isn’t really committed to technology awareness (most technology people would find working in sales/marketing/etc mind numbing). Business awareness is crucial, but it really is an executive *team*. Does a CEO have to have been a CFO to be qualified? No, the CEO trusts his/her CFO to understand that part. Does a CFO have to have been a COO? No.

It makes me mad how the CIO position is seen by many executive teams to be the “unwanted” position, and business people who want to make C-level will accept the position just to further their careers no matter how bad they are at it. I wonder how many of these so-called CIO’s could formulate an educated decision about something as industry hyped as, say, the appropriate use of SaaS technologies.

]]> By: Rom http://www.ciodashboard.com/leadership/leadership-experience-whats-important-cio/comment-page-1/#comment-30680 Rom Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:26:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1264#comment-30680 I agree with everyone here - the CIO absolutely needs IT experience. Too many times have I seen inept CIO's, or even any level of IT management, who have little to no IT experience and essentially need their staff to present "envelopes" to them that they can just pick one without understanding all the issues at hand. One thing in the article that I don't agree with though is: 5. Management experience in a non-IT function I don't think a CIO needs to have done a sales, marketing, or other role to be qualified for CIO - and in fact doing so I feel means that he/she isn't really committed to technology awareness (most technology people would find working in sales/marketing/etc mind numbing). Business awareness is crucial, but it really is an executive *team*. Does a CEO have to have been a CFO to be qualified? No, the CEO trusts his/her CFO to understand that part. Does a CFO have to have been a COO? No. It makes me mad how the CIO position is seen by many executive teams to be the "unwanted" position, and business people who want to make C-level will accept the position just to further their careers no matter how bad they are at it. I wonder how many of these so-called CIO's could formulate an educated decision about something as industry hyped as, say, the appropriate use of SaaS technologies. I agree with everyone here – the CIO absolutely needs IT experience. Too many times have I seen inept CIO’s, or even any level of IT management, who have little to no IT experience and essentially need their staff to present “envelopes” to them that they can just pick one without understanding all the issues at hand.

One thing in the article that I don’t agree with though is:

5. Management experience in a non-IT function

I don’t think a CIO needs to have done a sales, marketing, or other role to be qualified for CIO – and in fact doing so I feel means that he/she isn’t really committed to technology awareness (most technology people would find working in sales/marketing/etc mind numbing). Business awareness is crucial, but it really is an executive *team*. Does a CEO have to have been a CFO to be qualified? No, the CEO trusts his/her CFO to understand that part. Does a CFO have to have been a COO? No.

It makes me mad how the CIO position is seen by many executive teams to be the “unwanted” position, and business people who want to make C-level will accept the position just to further their careers no matter how bad they are at it. I wonder how many of these so-called CIO’s could formulate an educated decision about something as industry hyped as, say, the appropriate use of SaaS technologies.

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