Investing in the Professionals

November 7, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Investing in the Professionals

Chief information officers (CIOs) are responsible for the availability of information to their businesses on a consistent and timely basis. However, in many organizations, this is not considered a strategic priority but is more of a maintenance task. This is unfortunate. Ventana Research brought this topic to our attention in their blog post titled, “CIOs Need to Make Information Management a Real Priority.”

Poor and inadequate tools find many technology professionals doing little more than data entry instead of system analysis.

How do information technology professionals create a shift in their focus, as well as the strategic leadership to see the power and importance of solid information technology? How do they change the perception of them being little more than a help desk?

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.