Ask A CIO: What Keeps You Up At Night?

Kevin Pashuk, CIO at Appleby College

First of all, I have very little trouble sleeping because I have great people. But it is really the staffing and resourcing that is huge. It's building the team and the skills they need to make sure that they have what they need to be truly successful. Churn can kill you. There is a talent gap, a talent shortage. There's also a phenomenal amount of migration. Fairness is a phenomenal motivator. I think be fair, and if that's out of the way you deal with how much autonomy do they have, how much data do they have, what kind of updated skills do they get to have, what kind of backend support to they get, what is your environment, all the factors that allow for a high-performing team. CIOs truly need to understand their teams and start looking at how that applies to what I have.