Mis Engaging in Cio-Cxo "Conversations That Matter": an Interview with Peter Keen
Nowadays, management information systems (MIS) simplify the company’s operating and procedures. It also increased among organizations and provides them a good management of the organization itself. In order to make it a hundred percent efficient and eventually make it collaborate with the firm, a good coordination of this department should be considered. In this article “Engaging in CIO-CxO Conversations that Matter”, Peter Keen, the Chairman of Keen Innovations, is interviewed by Omar El Sawy. He was asked a few questions about the issues and barriers to performance that they faced within the domain of MIS and what are the potential solutions to get rid of it. First of all, I will react in this paper to the answers provided by Peter keen. Later on, I will build an opinion about his ideas and use references to strengthen it.
Q1: I have heard you say more than once that CxOs are not interested in “IT.” Can you explain what you mean by that?
The chairman and advisor of Keen Innovations, Peter Keen, clearly answered this question. He claimed that it is extremely important that CxOs are aware of how important is the presence of information systems within their company and the way it can spread and assimilate relationships between the companies processes. He also states that the chief executive officers of companies do not like technology and information systems. In reality, it’s not that they don’t like technology and information systems, it is just that they don’t like to know what is behind these technologies and all the electronic features and mechanisms that they are made of. All they care about is the actual added value that these technologies bring to the business and how this technology increases the performance of the company. Peter Keen brought up the case of Facebook, and states that 300 million users exploit Facebook’s platform without really knowing how it actually works.
According to Peter Keen, the role of CIOs is as important as any other CxO if it
Q1: I have heard you say more than once that CxOs are not interested in “IT.” Can you explain what you mean by that?
The chairman and advisor of Keen Innovations, Peter Keen, clearly answered this question. He claimed that it is extremely important that CxOs are aware of how important is the presence of information systems within their company and the way it can spread and assimilate relationships between the companies processes. He also states that the chief executive officers of companies do not like technology and information systems. In reality, it’s not that they don’t like technology and information systems, it is just that they don’t like to know what is behind these technologies and all the electronic features and mechanisms that they are made of. All they care about is the actual added value that these technologies bring to the business and how this technology increases the performance of the company. Peter Keen brought up the case of Facebook, and states that 300 million users exploit Facebook’s platform without really knowing how it actually works.
According to Peter Keen, the role of CIOs is as important as any other CxO if it