Paper ID
3070
Paper Type
short
Description
Today’s CIOs face a host of perplexing and conflicting demands. Learning how to embrace these complex paradoxes is akin to learning the art of spinning plates in opposite directions. Early insights from our interview-based study reveal that CIOs are embracing their role-related paradoxes by developing a “plate-spinning mindset,” i.e., a mindset that helps CIOs spin multiple metaphorical plates in opposite directions. In this paper, we inform practitioners what a plate-spinning mindset entails, and how to develop such a mindset.
Recommended Citation
MEHTA, NIKHIL; Sambamurthy, Vallabhajosyula; and Iyer, Lakshmi, "Plate-Spinning for Success: CIOs, Embrace your Role Paradoxes!" (2019). ICIS 2019 Proceedings. 10.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2019/practice_is_research/practice_is_research/10
Plate-Spinning for Success: CIOs, Embrace your Role Paradoxes!
Today’s CIOs face a host of perplexing and conflicting demands. Learning how to embrace these complex paradoxes is akin to learning the art of spinning plates in opposite directions. Early insights from our interview-based study reveal that CIOs are embracing their role-related paradoxes by developing a “plate-spinning mindset,” i.e., a mindset that helps CIOs spin multiple metaphorical plates in opposite directions. In this paper, we inform practitioners what a plate-spinning mindset entails, and how to develop such a mindset.