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CIO Careers: Learning from System Quarterbacks

October 28, 2009

Kyle Field at Texas A&M Photo by StuSeeger After an embarrassing loss to Kansas State last weekend, my Texas A&M football team responded with a resounding whooping (that’s a Texas term) of the Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday in Lubbock, racking up a 52-30 victory.  This is a big win for our program, for sure. Whenever the discussion involves Texas Tech, the idea of a “system quarterback” usually is in the mix.  The concept of ...

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

May 5, 2009

by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That the majority of new jobs are sourced through “weak ties,” not close relationships. (I never heard this before, but it makes ...

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3 CIO Lessons from Obama’s First 100 Days

April 29, 2009

Today marks President Obama’s 100th day in office.  Gallup reports that Obama’s 63% approval rating is the best since Carter’s early approval rating in 1977 (the highest was JFK’s 74% in 1961; CNN’s take).   Americans have used the first 100 days as a predictor of Presidential success ever since FDR’s barrage of New Deal programs.  NPR even has an Obama Tracker that has been documenting domestic, economic and foreign policy milestones since the President ...

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CIO Tenure: What is Wrong (if Anything)?

April 22, 2009

Along with IT project failure rates, the average time a CIO stays with a company is one of the most often quoted metrics in our trade. Recent studies cite that 1 in 4 CIOs are fired for poor performance and CIO’s have an average tenure of 4.4 years. These don’t seem to bode well for the CIO. Why is the tenure so short?  And, is this seemingly short tenure really a bad thing? While certainly ...

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