8 Biggest Blunders CIOs Make
4. Too much of defensive ideas:
Another bad approach from the CIO is that they tend to work and look upon things with a defensive set of mind. In the technology world that is so competitive, companies with defensive CIOs have a lot to pay. For instance think about the BYOD policy. Instead of innovating the idea, companies have simply set a policy that may end up as a threat to potential data leakage or data loss. Howard Rubin, founder of the advisory firm Rubin Worldwide said that "they do not understand the speed of business and how to adapt to it. They only adapt within limits and don’t innovate fast enough. They make the mistake of saying, 'We know better versus we know how to make it work the way you want to make it work.'"
