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CIO Careers: Learning from System Quarterbacks

Tweet Kyle Field at Texas A&M Photo by StuSeeger After an embarrassing loss to Kansas State last weekend, my Texas A&M football team responded with a resounding whooping (that’s a Texas term) of the Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday in Lubbock, racking up a 52-30 victory.  This is a big win for our program, for […] MORE

October 28, 2009

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

Tweet by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That […] MORE

May 05, 2009

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CIO Tenure: What is Wrong (if Anything)?

Tweet Along with IT project failure rates, the average time a CIO stays with a company is one of the most often quoted metrics in our trade. Recent studies cite that 1 in 4 CIOs are fired for poor performance and CIO’s have an average tenure of 4.4 years. These don’t seem to bode well […] MORE

April 22, 2009

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