[kictanet] IT posts for full circle

[Barrack Otieno]

:-), increasingly organisations are certifying line managers to manage
various components of ERPs, where does all this leave the CIO?

On 8/8/11, waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com> wrote:
> 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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