[kictanet] IT posts for full circle

[Charles Maye]

At one level, this is not surprising. As technology evolves and becomes standardized, even commoditized, the focus shifts from the equipment to the consumer. The organizations that win will be those that have a winning proposition to the end user not necessarily those with the best technology. A good example is the telcos. When mobile phones started off in the early 90’s, the companies were run by engineers. Today, most telcos are run by either marketing guys or finance guys.

Charles Maye,

From: kictanet-bounces+cmaye=ke.nationmedia.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+cmaye=ke.nationmedia.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of robert yawe
Sent: 08 August 2011 08:29
To: Charles Maye
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: [kictanet] IT posts for full circle

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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