“Wait, the CIO Is This Close?” — The Day an IT Engineer Discovered the Connection Between Technology and Management
Whoa! The CIO I've seen on TV is casually walking right in front of me! When I was assigned to an IT Planning Department, two things really surprised me. First, there was far less system development work than I had expected. Second, the senior executives responsible for shaping the company's IT strategy were much more accessible than I had ever imagined. From Building Systems to Shaping the Company's IT Future Until then, I had always been a systems engineer. Requirements definition, system design, development, testing, and deployment. My job was to manage quality, cost, and schedules to ensure projects were delivered successfully. That was the world I had worked in for years. But when I joined the IT Planning Department on assignment, my perspective changed completely. "What should IT look like for this company in the future?" The focus was no longer on individual systems. It was about designing and managing the company's entire IT landscape. The IT Planning ...