The path to CIO
If you have ever taken the time to interrogate a few CIOs, it becomes clear even from a small sample that there is no single career path into the role.
If you have ever taken the time to interrogate a few CIOs, it becomes clear even from a small sample that there is no single career path into the role.
The digital revolution means anyone can find or post a job online in seconds. Not only job seekers, but employers too, have a number of online tools at their fingertips to find and recruit top talent.
So you have a startup and your excitement is hard to contain.You have a novel concept and are in the process of building it out.To get to this juncture you have used your own funds plus monies from friends and family.
David Gee talks to Brett Mildwaters, the general manager – information technology at Ticket Solutions, whose brands include Oztix, Heatseeker and NZtix.
It is arguably the greatest job in the world – so what kind of CIO do you want to be?
Within five years of moving into IT management, Jay Kerley found his purpose: working with the business to affect business outcomes and results. And he set his sights on the CIO role when it became clear that the best way to create change and effect a business impact on as wide a scale as possible is to have that executive-level, strategic role. "With a CIO's cross-division view of processes, you are in the position to shift and turn the company," says Kerley, who was promoted to the position of deputy CIO at Applied Materials in 2009.
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