May 25, 1999
I am a 29-year-old LAN support specialist with five years experience supporting users in a
Novell/Windows environment. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science and am finishing my
master's in telecommunications. I want to move
into the management and business side of IT; my long-term career goal is to become a CIO. Would
you recommend that I pursue a techno-MBA to gain the required management and business skills,
or would you recommend a management of technology degree?
You need to do two things to accomplish your goals. The first, and most important, is to utilize
your current organization to migrate you into a different area of the company, such as
application support. Also, I would pursue an MBA vs. any other techno-MBAs. Your current
educational pedigree is heavily slanted to networks and telecom. Any other technical bend is
going to indicate that your focus is just technology, not business.
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