Why is it taking so long to appoint a new CIO? Will it be internal or external?
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He probably came cheap.
Future looks bleak for Seagate IT staff if Ravi Naik runs IT at Seagate the way he did at Sandisk. Just google him and you will see how horrible it was for us at Sandisk.
Finally new CIO announced. Ravi Naik.
If they stall long enough on picking a CIO there will be no IT left for them to run. Obviously not a corporate priority since a new head of Legal got hired faster.
Any update ? It is now 6+ months without a CIO.
It has been helpful at making development process more efficient. 1st hand account. Don't discount IT. IT get it? ha!
The CIO builds the teams that build and support the infrastructure that allows STX to make the items we sell. Lack of proper guidance and vision, as to the direction of said team put STX at a distinct competitive disadvantage. Without the vision, clarity of purpose and advocacy from a seasoned CIO, the IT structure will continue to wither. STX will find that SM has been penny-wise and pound foolish in permitting the corporate IT infrastructure to become inadequate to the task at hand.
You f---ing idiot. THE CIO DOESNT MAKE ANY STX PRODUCT. The CTO leads that (other support of others) CIO only manages like HR. STX dying because of dumb f---s like you. Learn about your management and maybe you will drop the hate and stupidity that haunts this website.
Still no CIO after six months. Who's leading? Likely some high up exec that doesn't have a clue about IT. Without a seasoned CIO, this company will make (or has already made) bad decisions that will impact it's ability to get product to market first.
Wasn't there supposed to be a new CTO as well?
They keep looking but all the candydates so far are just 3s.
By the time they are done moving everything to the cloud, converting all the mission critical apps to Google / Workday and making engineers fix their own laptops, there won't be any IT left to run.
The better question is who the hell in their right mind would want to take over an IT org that has been cut to the bone on both budget and staff, is asked to operate with a negative budget and where the President has openly stated that he thinks the entire org is nothing other than a huge money s---! As far as the current search, it's much easier to continue to dismantle and cut IT even deeper when there is no real leadership to argue with.