Six Rules for CIO Survival

How can top IT executives avoid the really big job pitfalls?

Here are six tips from a former CIO.

Last week I wrote about the evolving challenges of CIO education—and the need to figure out what a career path towards the CIO role might look like. This week I want to touch on the kinds of "survival strategies" that, at a high level, I think all technology executives must embrace and cultivate.

I’ve been developing this list over a long time, both from my own experiences as a CIO (now a decade in the past, thankfully) and as an observer of, and advisor to, many CIOs since then. In many cases, I have seen organizations who ignore these rules wind up with major technical and business problems—and the CIOs who ignore them do so at their peril.

By John Parkinson

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