Comments on: Bye-Bye Baby Boomers: Should A CIO Be Worried?

By: Are CIOs Ready To Battle The X-Men (and X-Women)? | Management Digest

Are CIOs Ready To Battle The X-Men (and X-Women)? | Management Digest — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:01:53 +0000

[...] Erickson has been studying the differences between the Baby Boomer generation (those people who were born just after World War II ended) and the Generation X (born between 1961 – 1981). It turns out that there are a lot of differences [...]

By: Are CIOs Ready To Battle The X-Men (and X-Women)? (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment) | The Accidental Successful CIO

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:04:35 +0000

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Dr. Jim Anderson — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:12:07 +0000

Brett: I sure do write on other topics! Look over on the right-hand side of the blog postings and way down at the bottom you’ll see the “Accidental Successful CIO Blog Roll”. I write each of those blogs…

By: Brett Rudolph

Brett Rudolph — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:25:51 +0000

I like to visit your site a couple times a week for new readings. I was wondering if you have any other topics you write about?

By: Roseann Rehrer

Roseann Rehrer — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:33:38 +0000

Thank you for all of the great tips! I’ll have to come back soon for more!

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Dr. Jim Anderson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:40:13 +0000

Art: what you say is so true. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen retirement packages offered only to discover that the folks who took them were the ones who really knew how things worked! Most firms end up hiring some / all of them back for big $ and their bottom lines end up taking the hit…

By: Art

Art — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:00:07 +0000

This is a problem facing almost any skilled industry. I used to work (years ago) as a union electrician. In the slow years in the early 2000′s, the union in my area wanted to offer early retirement to the older electricians in order to “free up” more jobs for younger men. At the same time, the state of California (where I was working) decided to require all journeymen working for contractors to become licensed after passing a test. The carrot of the early retirement and the stick of having to study for and pass a test- existing journeymen were not “grandfathered” prodded many to exit the skilled workforce prematurely. The loss of talent and experience was a shame and had only a very short term affect on the availablity of work. Were I still working in that profession, and I were offered an early retirement, I doubt I would have taken it. Any shortage of experienced, skilled workers would make my continued availability far more valuable to my employer (bonus time!) and would give me confidence that downturns such as are now occuring (2008-9) would be more survivable with savings and pensions that had been further bolstered by the additional years of work. If CIO’s or any othe managers are worried about retention, instead of panicking they should consider creative retention programs with financial value to entice the real talent to stay or to come back. They’ll stay, or come back if it’s worthwhile to them.