From: Joe Rinehart (jjrinehart@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2006 - 13:34:45 GMT-3
I have noticed a significant preponderance with consulting in a CIO role...
One of my former customers was a large company in which I got to interact
with the CIO and last year I had several executive interactions that made me
start to think about this...all of those folks had done consulting...
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lee [mailto:a07146@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 8:31 AM
To: Babylon By The Bay; Joe Rinehart
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: CIO and CCIE
MBA is a MUST if you want to undestand how top
management people talk in $ & #.
GMAT is not difficult compare to CCIE Lab. So having
both definitely will get you CIO position soon or
later. Even better, if you have your own consulting
firm.
Dave,
Network Engineer
http://www.ccie2be.com
--- Babylon By The Bay <tech-lists@rexglobal.com>
wrote:
> I tend to agree!!!
>
> I'm looking at doing the same myself. As I'm now
> pushing 40 there seems to
> be a yearning within me to make the next big step
> into the upper echelon of
> the food chain. The only real way to do this within
> the global 1000 is to
> have a solid B-School to back it up with.
>
> I'm considering: London Business School (LBS) and
> INSEAD, but we'll see as
> I'm still in prep mode for GMAT.
>
> I've been following some MBA bloggers and there's a
> wealth of information
> there. From daily life to classes and getting your
> foot in the door. CHECK
> IT OUT...
>
> mbaleague.blogspot.com
>
> Good luck...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Rinehart" <jjrinehart@comcast.net>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 7:59 AM
> Subject: CIO and CCIE
>
>
> > Weird off topic question but wanted group input.
> >
> >
> >
> > Definitely value the CCIE after clawing my way to
> it in 2004 (deep in my
> > recert studies at the moment in fact) and love the
> technical piece of
> > that.
> >
> >
> >
> > Having scaled that mountain I am now working on an
> MBA with a career goal
> > of
> > becoming a CIO.
> >
> >
> >
> > My personal opinion is that having both the
> business (MBA) and technical
> > (CCIE) background is a unique and killer
> combination for a role like that.
> > What are YOUR thoughts? Benefit, drawback, or
> neither?
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe Rinehart, Consulting Systems Engineer
> >
> > CCNP, CCDP, CCIE #14256
> >
> > World Wide Technology, Inc.
> >
> >
>
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