CIO Straight Jacket: Disproportionate responsibility levels

The CIO Straight Jacket comes with disproportionate responsibility levels Are you dealing with a whole lot of IT responsibility and getting not a whole lot of authority? What's up with that? How does such a thing happen?   Everyone looks to IT to save the world, fix broken, make IT happen, protect us, coddle us, answer all our questions at the drop of a hat, and even drive the company's security policy posture .. protection pragmatic digital transformation driving the business forward to appease stock holders, investors, and all responsibility and blame lies on you. So why don't you get the money? Doug Berry - The IT Guy who helped bring rental bikes to London and I talk about some of these life-altering subjects on this episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds: The increasing Challenges of the straight-jacked CIO High level responsibility disproportionate to the level of authority What to do when people make technology requests that don't match budgeted dollars. How to Influence Spend and Security Standards Decision Design Direction, avoiding double spending, and shadow IT The love of my life: Technical Writing

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