College CIOs could retire en mass over the next decade.

College CIO academy: Translate the ‘techno babble’


CTL instructors weren’t just showing students how to translate technology speak to plain English, Loyot said. They also helped translate the other end of the exchange: from CFO, for example, to IT.

“You have to have that in-depth knowledge about senior-level people and how they talk,” he said. “We need to be able to understand business talk and know what they really mean … or we’re at a disadvantage.”

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