Inspired CIOs Are More Innovative

The I in CIO is about innovation and Kristin D. Russell, Secretaryof Technology and Chief Information Officer of Colorado bestexemplifies the power of innovation, and inspiration, to delivermeaningful value. Russell, who has run global IT for SunMicrosystems and Oracle, had no intention of working for the publicsector, but when Governor Hickenlooper read her a poem in an effortto convince her to become the CIO for the state of Colorado, shereconsidered. The last line of the poem, by Marge Piercy whichreads, "The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work



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