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CIO Tenure – Current Thinking for IT Leaders

Sep 2, ’10 7:11 AM

Following is a curated list of resources that reflect current thinking on a topic of interest to IT leaders. You can assist this effort by contributing insight from your own real-world experiences, and are invited to suggest changes or additions here.

Current Thinking Includes:

Multiple surveys completed over the last 18 months show CIO tenure to be flat or actually increasing throughout this difficult economic period, although their methodologies differ:

SearchCIO.com: IT executive jobs average 6.3 years, a testament to both IT and the business

The average tenure for senior IT executive jobs is now 6.3 years, according to TechTarget Inc.’s annual salary and careers survey.

An upcoming Gartner survey still underway is showing that CIOs average tenure in their current positions is about 4.4 years, about the same as 2008, [Mark McDonald] said.

Forrester Blogs: CIO Job Tenure Rises – Long-term Trend or Fleeting Phase?

CIO job tenure is now averaging 4.6 years, according to the Society for Information Management. That’s up – way up — from the 2-3 year average that we saw just a few years ago.

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The CIO Role – Current Thinking for IT Leaders

Aug 30, ’10 6:28 PM

Following is a curated list of resources that reflect current thinking on a topic of interest to IT leaders. You can assist this effort by contributing insight from your own real-world experiences, and are invited to suggest changes or additions here.

Current Thinking Includes:

The CIO Role is a topic that generates a tremendous amount of copy, with little consensus on the state of the role for today’s practitioners, or what the future holds.  A cursory reading of analyst materials may leave one with the impression that the CIO role is already dead, or dying.  The Cloud is either the last nail in the coffin for IT as we know it – or, a great opportunity to transform the way services and value are provided to the business.  Others see a renaissance of sorts for the role as industry comes out of the recession and CIOs are needed to help drive new growth for their respective organizations.

For the purposes of this post, Current Thinking includes a sampling of discussions on current challenges for the CIO, reporting points, impact of the Cloud and desired traits for the position. Alternative Views will include a selection of contrarian posts that may counter much of the negativity that is so easy to find in discussions on the role of the CIO.

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Becoming a CIO – Current Thinking for IT Leaders

Aug 18, ’10 2:54 PM

Following is a curated list of resources that reflect current thinking on a topic of interest to IT leaders. You can assist this effort by contributing insight from your own real-world experiences, and are invited to suggest changes or additions here.

Current Thinking Includes:

A review of resources making referencing to the CIO position reveals a very long list of suggested traits for the role.  Rather than providing an aggregation of all those items here, we might focus on what appear to be the macro-level differences for this specific role versus the positions that come before it in the IT career ladder. While promotions within the IT domain will usually carry greater scope (more people, portfolio, budget responsibility), the consensus view is that movement to CIO is qualitatively different in several ways.

While continuing to be responsible for the successful performance of the IT organization, the CIO’s focus necessarily expands to the health and success of the entire business, with an expectation that a substantial positive impact will be made to the organization.  The dozens of skills learned and practiced over the course of the CIO’s career are leveraged not just toward a larger IT staff, but also to the organization and its needs.  A deep understanding of the business, market dynamics, financial drivers and opportunities are likely to be new skills over the demands of the past, and are a challenge for many CIOs (see Business Alignment).

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