[kictanet] IT posts for full circle

[Barrack Otieno]

I once heard bwana Waudo refer to CIO as career is over, in this age
of enterprise resource planning, anything is possible.

On 8/8/11, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It is now clear that as ICT professionals we are now loosing ground in as
> far as
> our influence in the organisation is concerned.  When Mr. Kinyanjui was
> appointed IT Director at Kenya Airways I was sure that this was the
> beginning of
> a new wave in the running of organisations where the glass ceiling for those
> in
> ICT was soon to be broken.
>
> Unfortunately this was not be happen as he still remains in the same post
> while
> in other organisations such as KCB and Safaricom the posts of CIO/ICT
> Directors
> have either been downgraded or scraped all together.
>
> The final nail was driven home when I read the current issue of CIO magazine
> and
> saw the results of a survey by Gartner, I leave it for you to read and weep.
>
> http://financesjournal.com/blogs/influence-cfo-investments-7204.html
>
> Regards
>
> PS.  Which explains a lot why we have boards whose mandate is to provide
> opportunities for those in ICT run by none technocrats and we wonder why the
> Open Data is sitting in a server in the USA
>  Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>

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