Comments on: Executive CIO - part two http://ciomind.biz/2007/03/14/executive-cio-part-two/ Do you REALLY want to know what’s inside? Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:58:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Brinley N. Platts http://ciomind.biz/2007/03/14/executive-cio-part-two/#comment-57 Brinley N. Platts Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:26:00 +0000 http://ciomind.biz/2007/03/14/executive-cio-part-two/#comment-57 I am grateful to Felix for drawing attention to my work and for tracking me down so that I could defend it! His note explains the magazine article but doesn't convey the effect this work has had on the senior CIO community here in the UK. For many of them, hearing about the CIO Role-Types is like having a burden lifted. They realise how they can avoid meaningless comparisons with CIOs who may be more effective in some ways but who are obviously different and have less obvious different weaknesses and blind spots. More important, the model predicts how the different types of CIOs will naturally develop and gives them areas where they can seek out specific experience and training to assist in their all round executive development. The objective of this and our other work is to help enable CIOs step up and become key members of the CEOs top team. This is the best way we know to help ensure the business secures the IT service it needs. You can very quickly plot your own career track online at www.lef.csc.com/performance/survey.asp You can also download the research Executive Summary and other interesting CIO development white papers from www.ciodevelopment.com . I am grateful to Felix for drawing attention to my work and for tracking me down so that I could defend it! His note explains the magazine article but doesn’t convey the effect this work has had on the senior CIO community here in the UK.

For many of them, hearing about the CIO Role-Types is like having a burden lifted. They realise how they can avoid meaningless comparisons with CIOs who may be more effective in some ways but who are obviously different and have less obvious different weaknesses and blind spots.

More important, the model predicts how the different types of CIOs will naturally develop and gives them areas where they can seek out specific experience and training to assist in their all round executive development. The objective of this and our other work is to help enable CIOs step up and become key members of the CEOs top team. This is the best way we know to help ensure the business secures the IT service it needs.

You can very quickly plot your own career track online at http://www.lef.csc.com/performance/survey.asp You can also download the research Executive Summary and other interesting CIO development white papers from http://www.ciodevelopment.com .

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