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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When you become CIO, almost instantly everything that you know

One of life’s great mysteries is “just exactly what do CIOs do” I’m pretty sure that we all think that we know what they do,

What makes you think that when you become the CIO that you’ll be able to run things better than the current CIO is doing? Do

Just imagine the day that you become CIO: you’ll be able to shed all of those past associations and friendships that have gotten you to

We all dream of the day that we will get the nod to become CIO — finally we will have arrived. Or will we have?

Hmm, let me try and remember how this is supposed to go: the IT department exists to serve the rest of the company. If the

So this story should probably be filed in the “it should have never happened” drawer: Microsoft has lost the information that T-Mobile users of the

You know that database that your company relies on? No, not that one, the other one that is really, really important? Yep, that one –

In all honesty, there are a lot of people who become CIO who really should never have been promoted to that position. There are too

It turns out that a company’s #1 salesperson is their CIO. They may not go on sales calls, have an assigned quota, or even be

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