Comments on: It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s CIO Superman!? http://partnerit.com/2009/10/cio_superman/ Business, Technology and Staffing insights from RSA Corp. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen Sweeney http://partnerit.com/2009/10/cio_superman/comment-page-1/#comment-4346 Stephen Sweeney Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:53:25 +0000 http://partnerit.com/?p=268#comment-4346 I agree with all of your points. Thanks for your comment! I agree with all of your points. Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: roland http://partnerit.com/2009/10/cio_superman/comment-page-1/#comment-4024 roland Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:39:09 +0000 http://partnerit.com/?p=268#comment-4024 I think that one of the reasons why the job tenure of CIOs is so short (3 years plus or minus) is that everyone has a view of what a CIO should be / do that is as you describe, super-human. Business assumes that the CIO can solve its problems ... a substantial step beyond creating and maintaining system functions in support of business. "Its problems" are seen as the domain of IT and the CIO even when, maybe particularly, the business and the other leaders on the team are not able to articulate them. Being super-human is a large burden. It would be nicer to be a valued part of a strong team, acknowledged for the unique contribution brought by the CIO role, and with a shared ownership of the business problems. A partnership with business in this sense is a two way transaction and requires a capable, strong, but not a super-human CIO. I think that one of the reasons why the job tenure of CIOs is so short (3 years plus or minus) is that everyone has a view of what a CIO should be / do that is as you describe, super-human. Business assumes that the CIO can solve its problems … a substantial step beyond creating and maintaining system functions in support of business. “Its problems” are seen as the domain of IT and the CIO even when, maybe particularly, the business and the other leaders on the team are not able to articulate them.

Being super-human is a large burden. It would be nicer to be a valued part of a strong team, acknowledged for the unique contribution brought by the CIO role, and with a shared ownership of the business problems. A partnership with business in this sense is a two way transaction and requires a capable, strong, but not a super-human CIO.

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