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CIO Learns From Past Mistakes

As former CIO for companies employed by two of the residents of my home, Randy Mott is derided for turning IT into a corporate segment that resembled an Olsen twin — the one who needs to eat a hamburger or two before she shrinks so far she becomes a blackhole. Now he’s telling his IT acolytes (including the “editorial” staff at the Magazine he sits on the board for) that a radical makeover is the only way to get to [a] rationalized approach to running a company’s technology infrastructure. That’s a big surprise for those of us who watched him ignore or deny several career’s worth of PO(purchase order)‘s so that he could brag about how inexpensive an IT organization is. (To be fair, I may hold a little resentment for the IT wasteland he left behind at my current employer so that he could go work for our #1 competitor despite his contractual obligations. He was never a poster-boy for ethics but that decision made it clear he never wanted to be said poster-boy.)

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