Nothing like a looming deadline to put the kibosh on posting new CIO job announcements on the blog.
With said deadline almost in my rearview mirror, I have the following news to share…
On Wednesday, United Airlines announced it had expanded its CIO’s role. Garry Kelly (yes, that Garry Kelly, of Sears Roebuck fame, or infamy, depending on your perception of Sears) is now in charge of strategic sourcing, continuous improvement, industrial and process engineering and operations research—in addition to all his responsibilities as CIO, which included IT strategy, application development, technical operations, information security and infrastructure planning. It’s like a work bomb went off in Kelly’s office and left for fallout countless new responsibilities in its wake. Actually, Kelly’s inheriting a lot of these duties from Rick Poulton, United’s SVP of strategic sourcing, who’s leaving the airline. Gee, I wonder why?
