Doug Berry

Co-Owner of a solutions-driven graphic communications company with a history of success connecting brands with consumers. While some companies simply provide products, Proforma TaCaBu provides integrated solutions that deliver your message, change perceptions and drive sales. Having spent years in the service industry of firefighting has given me insight in dealing with the public. With a deep background in communications, establishing a company designed to partner together to tackle marking challenges in the business world is a great fit.

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CIO Straight Jacket

CIO Straight Jacket: Disproportionate responsibility levels

The CIO Straight Jacket comes with disproportionate responsibility levels. Are you dealing with a whole lot of IT responsibility and getting not a whole lot of authority? What’s up with that? How does such a thing happen?

Everyone looks to IT to save the world, fix broken, make IT happen, protect us, coddle us, answer all our questions at the drop of a hat, and even drive the company’s security policy posture .. protection pragmatic digital transformation driving the business forward to appease stock holders, investors, and all responsibility and blame lie on you.

So why don’t you get the money?

Doug Berry – The IT Guy who helped bring rental bikes to London and I talk about some of these life-altering subjects on this episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds:

  • The increasing Challenges of the straight-jacked CIO
  • High-level responsibility disproportionate to the level of authority
  • What to do when people make technology requests that don’t match budgeted dollars.
  • How to Influence Spend and Security Standards
  • Decision Design Direction, avoiding double-spending, and shadow IT
  • The love of my life: Technical Writing

3 Key Takeaways

  • Once you know your value, you can communicate it.
  • IT is the foundation of any business. They need what you do.
  • Improving your communication with the higher-ups can only improve your situation.

Listen To The Full Episode Below

CIO Straight Jacket
Dissecting Popular IT Nerds
72. CIO Straight Jacket: Disproportionate responsibility levels
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