[kictanet] IT posts for full circle

[waudo siganga]

Indeed Barrack, that was on a light note, but the truth of the matter is
that job specifications within ICT are highly dynamic even from a
historical perspective. To keep relevant, practitioners need to pay keen
attention to Continuous Professional Development. Right now with the
advent of Cloud Computing it is even doubtful whether KQ and other
organizations will in future need an IT department let alone a CIO/IT
Director. IT Practioners need to be ready to relocate to (or start)
companies running managed IT services. With Konza and other initiatives
coming up these companies can be located there. In user organizations
there will soon be no hardware/software to manage because of IaaS/SaaS. 

Waudo

On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:39 +0300, "Barrack Otieno"
<otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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