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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

  1. The 4 Most Meaningless IT Metrics
  2. Movers and Shakers: New Year, New CIOs
  3. There is No War for IT Talent, You Just Need a Better Workplace
  4. Featured Executive Placement: CIO for Bright Horizons

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CIOs love metrics. There is nothing like a set of numbers to add definition and weight to a discipline that is in a constant state of change. Metrics allow you to assess performance, issue rewards and recognition, and instill accountability. 

Metrics are a tried and true vehicle for communication. But when you have too many metrics – or when they have no meaning – you wind up with confusion, frustration, and under-performance.

While doing away with all IT metrics might be a bit extreme, Mark Settle, who served as the CIO at IHS, BMC Software and Arrow Electronics, suggests four traditional metrics you would be better off without.  

Martha

1. The 4 Most Meaningless IT Metrics

Meaningless IT metrics During his long CIO career, Mark Settle has learned a thing or two about IT metrics, including which are the most useful, and which should be abandoned altogether. In today’s guest blog, Settle shares his four most meaningless IT metrics.

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2. Movers and Shakers: New Year, New CIOs

New Year New CIOs 2016 Presenting my roundup of the IT leaders who started 2016 with a new CIO position. Delta, EMC and  Raytheon are among the many companies who recently appointed new CIOs.

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3. There is No War for IT Talent, You Just Need a Better Workplace

Mike Guggemos Insight CIO Like most CIOs, Mike Guggemos of Insight Enterprises is very interested in the question of why good people leave their IT jobs. Skeptical of the prevailing prescriptions, Guggemos conducted his own research into why good people stay, or go, and he discovered these common denominators.

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4. Featured Executive Placement: CIO for Bright Horizons

Heller Search was retained to recruit a CIO for Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. Headquartered in Watertown, MA, Bright Horizons (NYSE: BFAM) is a leading provider of employer-sponsored child care and early education services with $1.4 billion in revenue and 25,000 employees. We identified Eric Lindgren for this role, who has 14 years of experience as a CIO at Honeywell, PerkinElmer and, most recently, Clean Harbors, Inc. Eric earned a BS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, and an MBA from Boston University, Boston, MA. Congratulations, Eric!

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All the best,

Martha HellerHeller Search
President, Heller Search Associates
martha@hellersearch.com
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