why CIO's need to re-strategize and retool their skill sets

1. Consumer technology has out-innovated the enterprise technologies
2. Legacy systems are hampering upgrades to the CLOUD
3. The pace of technology advancements has surpassed the ability to adopt


Can you think of other reasons?!

what are some of the ways of professional networking?

until now I used LinkedIn groups and its no cost internal mail system but I think this service has come to bitter end.

I wonder what others are using over and above linkedin.