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July 13, 2008

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State of the CIO-2008

Filed under: Corporate IT — Prakash Muralidharan @ 12:59 am

The CIO magazine has published it's annual state of the CIO report. Here are some interesting snippets from the report:
-Strong CIOs don't innovate. They figure out ways to make money for the business.
-Stop talking about alignment. It marks CIOs as outsiders. Strong CIOs work with their peers. They guide them, educate them, persuade them, debate them, hear them, help them, decide with them and execute the enterprise's strategy with them.
-CIOs are of three broad types: Functional heads-who run the IT shop , Transformational leaders- guys who can lead business process change, Business strategists- Works with external customers to develop new business ideas that use IT. No prizes for guessing which category gets paid the most.
-Average tenure of a CIO is about 4 years and five months.
-Only 41% of CIO's report to the CEO.

You can read more at http://www.cio.com/


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