Bigelow Tea Contemplate on a CIO

Bangalore: Common sense seems to have prevailed among the executives of Bigelow Tea, an American based tea company, who seem to have finally realized the imperativeness of a CIO within the ranks of its management, reports Clint Boulton of CIO Journal.

Bigelow CFO and Executive Vice President Don Janezic, who currently supervises the IT sector, was of the opinion that accommodating a CIO would not only lighten the burden on the rest of the staff but also ensure systematic functioning of the IT.

Janezic admitted, “The reliance on technology is becoming paramount, and we can’t continue to treat it is as an overhead item.” His words reflect the contemporary situation we are witnessing where technology plays a crucial role in the overall cultivation of an organization.

Bigelow Tea is constituted of 340 employees but surprisingly only a meager 9 personals are entrusted to overlook the conditioning of the IT which is mainly comprised of software pertaining to e-mail and business.

At a time when Bigelow is facing competition from Lipton, Celestial Seasonings and Starbucks, hiring a CIO would be a sensible move who will not only bring order and discipline in the IT sector but also provide the base to overcome the technological hurdles that has become mandatory for the company in order to surge ahead in the relative field. A CIO would also prove efficacious in acquiring the adequate technologies for the employees which in turn have a positive impact on productivity.

But the big question is whether Bigelow is willing to embrace the rise in cost which will incur due to additional workforce that a CIO might contemplate on bringing? Janezic said as long as the CIO can back it up with measurable results, the management will not mind taking the plunge if it is ‘for greater good.’

We have just one thing to say for our friends at Bigelow, ‘Better late than never!’