Top 10 Reasons to Fire the CIO
Ben Worthen’s WSJ blog Top 10 Reasons to Fire the CIO provides a good list.
The underlying themes are that poor CIOs exhibit many of the tendencies of technologists. For example poor empathy, diplomacy and political skills. It is quite common for the CIO to be fired when the exec team bring in the change merchants to improve the IT-situation. Smart CIOs would beat them to it and get their corner of the business in shape before an exasperated board takes extreme measures.
Again many CIOs don’t know the difference between being smart and being right. This almost autistic disposition (High IQ, low EQ) does not endear them to their more well rounded business counterparts.
I get into this in
The IT Value Stack.