Comments on: Fits and starts: staying “tech savvy” as a CIO

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:54:51 +0000

Hello Peter- Kudos for staying hands-on. I wish more CIO/CTOs did. Unfortunately software is definitely a “contact sport”…

Enjoy your posts,
Alex

By: Fibol

Fibol — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:49:01 +0000

I do agree with your recommendations Peter. Practice and doing some field discovery is certainly a way to get back to reality. In my case, as a CIO, I must admit that I digged more, these past two years, in the user/collective experiences of technology. I spent roughly 5 to 10 hours per month on making me more fluent on how this social media things makes the workingplace a little bit different. Everyday I’m finding out new insights that I can experiment with my team, internally.
Goof luck Peter and Happy new year.
Fibol

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By: Peter Kretzman

Peter Kretzman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:08:33 +0000

Well, I didn’t say so directly in my post, but I do basically ALL this “dabbling” at home. If it starts to bleed over into work, then I’ve usually gone too far, and my belief is that I can’t be an effective “worker bee” while also wrestling with the management concerns of strategy, approach, administrivia, etc. Thanks for commenting.

By: jfbauer

jfbauer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:34:20 +0000

Perspective much appreciated … it gave me pause to look at my approach to this topic and I must say, I’ve really reduced my “hands-on” to my blog and at home putterings and have neglected more work related challenges. I’ll need to improve my balance and challenge myself more at work to dip into things a little deeper. Thanks for the post!

By: Pedro Cardoso

Pedro Cardoso — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:51:10 +0000

I share a similar perpective and spend a lot of energy trying to operationalize those “hands-on” opportunities in a way that maximizes value and minimizes the time I need to spend. My value proposition as a senior IT leader is not that of a “doer” but one to best “enable” my team of “doers” to do what they do best. To be the best that I can at doing that, I need just enough “in the trenches” experience as context. From activity with my blog to volunteer work as “webmaster” and technology denizen, staying relevant is non negotiable.

By: Peter Kretzman

Peter Kretzman — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:49:29 +0000

My first reaction there was that I’ve about run out of major languages that I’ve never programmed in! But then I thought for just a bit, and realized that’s far from being true. Just off the top of my head, I still have Python, C#, Scala, and even Erlang as possibilities. And new ones do keep coming along. Thanks for commenting, Mark.