Good for you. Personally I believe the CIO position will eventually be eliminated and here is why.
All of the MIS depts. I have worked alongside see themselves as the keepers of the key to their kingdom. NONE of them understand the entire business process. For instance, the last good gig I had was at Alliance gaming in vegas. Even today I can show you the process flow: Development containing Art and Math (art did the artwork for the slot machines and math developed the formulas) Engineering containing Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Quality Assurance and Compliance Manufacturing Each of those has unique requirements that were NOT being met. Now that I am older and wiser, I would do it this way. Rather than have a central MIS, or IT dept. I would have one or more people working in each of those departments getting their job specifications from the department manager, and their big picture specs from the CIO. This way they knew all of the problems in their respective departments. That way we could work together to make sure the process was seamless Our current way of doing IT does not allow for that. -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 1:17 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] The Tech Industry's Darkest Secret: It's All About Age On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Virgil Bierschwale <[email protected]>wrote: > I hear from people that have phd's and even the occasional mba all the > time > > Most are over 50 and cant buy a interview > > How will they diversify? > > Sadly in the corporate world most of the it depts. Are under the cfo > > That is because the ivory tower does not feel that they are getting > their money's worth > -------- > Attempting to get the CIO position and a Masters is demanded. Working on it is acceptable here. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
