This post was originally shared on the OpsRamp blog. -- A recent study by search firm Korn Ferry found that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have an average tenure of 4.3 years. Most CIOs don't last for five years at an organization and have the second shortest job tenure for C-suite members! It's little wonder, then, there's an army of experts whose only job seems to be offering advice on how CIOs can do their jobs better. A Google search 'Advice for new CIO' returns close to 8 million results. Analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester exhort CIOs to adopt the latest shiny object or suffer the consequences. Consultants such as McKinsey or Accenture publish regular studies on how CIOs should cope with digital transformation, cloud management, or the ever popular business-IT alignment. What if you had access to advice from an actual CIO, who's been at the job.