I have been in higher education almost all my life, and I have had a successful research and teaching career before moving into management positions. During the past 10 years I have been in level-two (vice president equivalent) positions at two different universities, and in both have been in a CIO/IT Leadership-type role. From 2001-2008, I was Executive Director responsible for information technology and related matters at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) (http://www.uwc.ac.za), and from January 2009 to July 2011 as Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand (known as Wits), Johannesburg (http://www.wits.ac.za). The DVC-KIM position was created to help make...