The Role of the CIO: Mentor

by Eric D. Brown on October 6, 2008 · View Comments

in Human Resources, Information Technology, Leadership, People

The latest edition of CIO Magazine has an interesting article titled “Power from Your People” written by Karan Sorenson, VP & CIO at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals.

In the article, Sorenson makes an interesting claim: The role of CIO goes far beyond ‘leading IT’…it includes mentoring employees and developing employees throughout the organization.

In most organizations that I’ve run across, the CIO is not usually focused on people development or if they are, they are focused on specific types of skill improvement (project management, etc).  Sorenson claims that CIO’s should be focused on building people…regardless of where those people are within the organization.

How refreshing to hear this from a CIO…not something I’ve heard from other CIO’s.

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Written By Eric D. Brown

Eric is a Consultant, Entrepreneur and Doctoral Student focused on helping organizations cross the chasm that exists between Business & IT. Eric writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at http://ericbrown.com. In addition to this blog and his consulting work, Eric is an avid & passionate photographer and writes about photography, shares photographs and reviews products at Photography Minute.
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