Clinging on just a little longer
Gilles Camoin, Head of Business and Information Strategy, Capgemini Consulting comments on the life-span of a CIO in a medium sized company.
19 September 2007
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From being a function that never existed, the CIO is facing an uncertain future. Its principle objective of supporting the management and providing it with IT knowledge and skills that it lacks may no longer be necessary.
New research suggests that the typical CIO in a medium-sized or large company now stays in this job for just over three years.
Gilles agrees that is the position is risky and confirms that a typical tenure period lasts from 18 months to two years. “Because CEOs knew nothing about technology, the main reason in the past for the high turnover of CIOs was that when there was a problem, their only option was to change the CIO. Now attitudes are changing a little. After the internet wave, CEOs understand that IT is very important.”
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