Toyota Motor Sales' CIO spoke with candor recently about the complexities facing IT leaders. The senior-level IT professionals attending the IS Associates Spring 2001 meeting at UCLA seemed to be in awe of Toyota's Barbra Cooper.
Women can go farther in new-economy settings.
It's a wash. Old-economy work offers women more advancement. And it was impossible not to wonder how Cooper made it to the top of the tech hill at a Japanese auto manufacturer. There's no doubt that Cooper and other women holding executive titles are largely responsible for their career successes. Results from an online survey of 265 members of WorldWIT offer some answers.