New MBA Trend: Become a CIO

If your are still stuck in the awe of good old days when standard business administration concepts included in a MBA program used to attract top organizations, then you need to wake up and get a reality check. Gone are the days when companies used to get impressed by any individual with a MBA degree. With evolving times, acquiring a MBA tag too has become passé with new situations demanding an upgraded form. In today's world of cut-throat competition, companies have begun giving huge weightage to a new MBA trend, a new power position - that of a CIO i.e. Chief Information Officer. As a consequence, they have started looking for students with an extra zeal and proficiency.

Nowadays, companies want to hire an individual with scrupulous understanding of MBA program with addition concepts like:

• General control theory
• Control engineering
• New business technologies
• Management by concept automated by computer systems
• Feedback control system
• Internet marketing and sales

An acronym for Chief Information Officer, CIO is an upcoming profession giving way to new MBA trend that is shaking the grounds of management market. Being a new profession, CIO is a designation clinched between CEO and IT director. A person with this designation should have entrepreneurial experience as well as technical expertise in information technologies. Considering the fact, that an entrepreneur is mainly concerned with doings of entrepreneurial department and an IT manager is chiefly concerned with technical matters, it's the business segment that mainly relies on information system and vice versa.

In a world clinging on survival of the fittest methodology, those relying on modern business administration must adapt to the new ways of doing business and learn the art of managing modern enterprises.

Since nowadays, companies are hugely relying on individuals with knowledge of electronic skills; they prefer hiring personnel's who can adroitly handle domains like:

• Enterprise resources planning (ERP)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• sophisticated Call Centers
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Internet
• New Internet Marketing

Thus, it won't be wrong to predict that within next few coming years this new MBA trend is soon going to catch up with the masses and make its presence felt.

Source: Priyanka Wali (Shiksha Team)