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Casual Articles - The Key Reasons Why Cios Get Fired And What To Do About Them - Part 1
Partnerships are essential in our emerging digital age.Small players with good partnerships can grab precious market share from larger, established names. Digital commerce rewards innovation and collaboration, not old buildings and traditions.At the Westin Hotel in Singapore, more than twenty framed certificates hang on the wall announcing ‘Partnership Agreements’ with key customers and suppliers.Both parties agree to call upon one another as supplier or vendor of first choice, to provide new and special services to each other before offering them to others, and to do all possible to help build each other’s business. The partnership program is reinforced by continuous dialog, quarterly reviews, a partners’ newsletter and other special events. Strong value flows both ways.Key Learning PointYou can partner with customers, suppliers, even your competitors. Instead of competition, use co-opetiti
So why do senior executive colleagues want to fire their CIOs so much?
I often reflect on a number of the CIOs I know well personally. I often struggle with the paradox that despite they are great people, dedicated to their jobs and achieve great things for their organisation with the frequent situation tha
If you had a pen that was high-tech, yet baby-easy to use – that in twenty (20) minutes of training could help you read-and-remember three (3) books, articles and reports in the time it takes others to finish one (1) – would you need to know more?Back in 1942 – (World War 2) - the U. S. Air Force was having trouble teaching their pilots to quickly identify enemy planes. They created a training-tool called a ‘tach-is-to-scope’ (Greek: meaning swift) – that flashed visual-images on-a-screen - to improve the speed-of-viewing, together with extending long-term memory.Did it really work?The U.S. Air Force experts tested the tachistoscope on their crews and concluded it improved ‘sightings’ 85%. It was declared mandatory-training for all pilots, co-pilots and navigators – and hidden-away as Top-Secret for the duration of the war.So?After the U.S. and their allies won the war – educators in New York
The CIO is probably the hottest seat on the "C" suite in terms of pressure and demands and that gets reflected in terms of a short tenure in the job. As individuals, they are typically bright, intelligent, hard-working and committed - and yet when you visit the offices of their colleagues frequently they are demanding that their CIO needs to go and go soon.
How long does a CIO last?
In the bad old days around the turn of the millennium - in the times of the dot-com crazy years of explosion growth and sudden collapse the accepted wisdom (or should I say urban myth) a typical CIO could expect to last 18-24 months in the job. These days, they get a while longer at the helm some say around 3-4 years (Forrester poll) and others 4-5 years (Gartner poll).
You've got to keep the lights on!
The most obvious requirement for any CIO is to keep the core IT systems and basic infrastructure working. If they stop and the organisation ceases to function properly, then they are not going to stay around long. I guess in over 25 years of business experience, I've only seen these catastrophic failures happen 2 or 3 times and the CIO incumbent pay the price of failure. Business users and customers expect IT to work and by and large it does. I suspect expectations of reliability increase year-on-year and most CIOs are on top of this fundemental part of their game. Perhaps the big downside, is that the substantial time & efforts typical CIOs and their staffs spend "keeping the lights on" puts them under pressure in othe key strategic areas that can ultimately cost them their jobs.
So why do senior executive colleagues want to fire their CIOs so much?
I often reflect on a number of the CIOs I know well personally. I often struggle with the paradox that despite they are great people, dedicated to their jobs and achieve great things for their organisation with the frequent situation that
If you have been in a job-search for very long at all, you have most likely read that employers do not read resumes, they scan them. Do you think a 30-second scan is ridiculous? When you consider how important filling a vacant position must be to an employer, that isn’t a very long amount of time, is it? Why wouldn’t an employer want to read EVERY resume to make sure they were hiring the right person for the job? Surely there is no way to properly get a feel for someone in 30 seconds. Well, think about it from a hiring manager’s point of view. The day starts at 7:00am with a bang – the phone rings, there are email messages to answer and a meeting with marketing at 8:00am to go over the recently vacated Brand Manager’s position. From there, a round of interviews for an opening in the executive suite for an Administrative Assistant have to be performed with littl
How long does a CIO last?
In the bad old days around the turn of the millennium - in the times of the dot-com crazy years of explosion growth and sudden collapse the accepted wisdom (or should I say urban myth) a typical CIO could expect to last 18-24 months in the job. These days, they get a while longer at the helm some say around 3-4 years (Forrester poll) and others 4-5 years (Gartner poll).
You've got to keep the lights on!
The most obvious requirement for any CIO is to keep the core IT systems and basic infrastructure working. If they stop and the organisation ceases to function properly, then they are not going to stay around long. I guess in over 25 years of business experience, I've only seen these catastrophic failures happen 2 or 3 times and the CIO incumbent pay the price of failure. Business users and customers expect IT to work and by and large it does. I suspect expectations of reliability increase year-on-year and most CIOs are on top of this fundemental part of their game. Perhaps the big downside, is that the substantial time & efforts typical CIOs and their staffs spend "keeping the lights on" puts them under pressure in othe key strategic areas that can ultimately cost them their jobs.
So why do senior executive colleagues want to fire their CIOs so much?
I often reflect on a number of the CIOs I know well personally. I often struggle with the paradox that despite they are great people, dedicated to their jobs and achieve great things for their organisation with the frequent situation tha
Over the years in recruitment, I have seen many job applicants make the same mistake again and again. This is a fatal mistake that I feel need to be addressed. These are the list of things that you should not do in the event of applying for jobs.Do not spam the HR executivesA lot of desperate job seekers had been committing this same mistake. If you visit the yahoo groups, you will realize that some of the members are so helpful that they list out all the email addresses of the HR executives and headhunting/recruitment firms. It is really scary as the list comes in hundreds and thousands. Not surprisingly, my email was included in it as we're in the headhunting business as well.Guess what happens when the hr executives receive your email. Count yourself really lucky if they don't list your email in the spam folder. What have you achieved? Nothing, but you have probably pissed people off. If you are one of t
You've got to keep the lights on!
The most obvious requirement for any CIO is to keep the core IT systems and basic infrastructure working. If they stop and the organisation ceases to function properly, then they are not going to stay around long. I guess in over 25 years of business experience, I've only seen these catastrophic failures happen 2 or 3 times and the CIO incumbent pay the price of failure. Business users and customers expect IT to work and by and large it does. I suspect expectations of reliability increase year-on-year and most CIOs are on top of this fundemental part of their game. Perhaps the big downside, is that the substantial time & efforts typical CIOs and their staffs spend "keeping the lights on" puts them under pressure in othe key strategic areas that can ultimately cost them their jobs.
So why do senior executive colleagues want to fire their CIOs so much?
I often reflect on a number of the CIOs I know well personally. I often struggle with the paradox that despite they are great people, dedicated to their jobs and achieve great things for their organisation with the frequent situation tha
A certified financial planner is a much-needed for all those who are looking to secure their financial future. There are a number of reputable governing boards that monitor the certification and the continuing education of these planners. These independent boards help make sure that each certified financial planner meets certain necessary requirements. With a certified financial planner, you not only get someone who has a established knowledge of financial planning, but one who has been trained in and is familiar with the ethical issues that surround financial planning.For all those who wish to become a certified financial planner, one must go through extensive training and answer a test. Many certifications also require that their certified financial planners take a certain amount of continuing education credits in order to keep their credentials up to date. This generally consists of a class o
So why do senior executive colleagues want to fire their CIOs so much?
I often reflect on a number of the CIOs I know well personally. I often struggle with the paradox that despite they are great people, dedicated to their jobs and achieve great things for their organisation with the frequent situation tha
If you have a pressure washer business you will eventually need to change out or repair the pump. There are a few things you should know to make such change outs easy. You may also need to study up on preventative maintenance so that you do not have to worry about pump failure. Your pressure washer probably has one of two different pumps if it is industrial grade. Either a Cat Pump or a General pump; both are industry standards. General is the leader in the industry for sales and many prefer Cat as it sucks better from plastic water tanks.Your pump is powered by two parallel belts connected to your engine. You should make sure not to starve your pump from water. When the water tank is empty turn off the engine. Starving a pump will burn it out in about thirty-five minutes. The manufacturer says five to ten minutes, but that’s not life threatening. Your pump has a safety feature whereby when you are not spraying the
So why do senior executive colleagues want to fire their CIOs so much?
I often reflect on a number of the CIOs I know well personally. I often struggle with the paradox that despite they are great people, dedicated to their jobs and achieve great things for their organisation with the frequent situation that many of their colleagues want to see them fired? How can such an uncomfortable situation arise?
Perhaps at the heart of it is the relentless increase in the demand for IT to help a modern large-scale organisation function successfully with the constraints of time, resources and most of all money to fulfill these expectations. We all know that the units costs of technology is falling year-on-year, the problem is that the demand is increasing even faster. This means that left unchecked, the costs for IT would explode year-on-year - and if this happens every CIO knows that they will be out-the-door before the kickoff budget planning round has even finished.
So every decent CIO attempts to control this ballooning budget overspend monster and it's here that is perhaps the root cause of the difficulties they experience. In the case of large organisations (particularly financial institutions) one endures a long drawn out and intensive budget setting process. At the end of which the overall budget for IT is determined and then the costs allocated (with different degrees of science depending on the organisation) to the individual business units and functions. The spending is based on a whole series of assumptions - which in practice turn out to be over optimistic. Business demand nearly always exceeds the assumptions in the budget (whether for infrastructure, desktop & communications or applications & projects - or all of them together) - the CIO is then sucked into a policing issue trying to enforce standardise solutions (to keep unit costs down), see
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