Thomas H. Murphy CIO, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.Miami Title: CIO Company: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Location: Miami Industry: Cruise/Vacation Educational background: B.A., English, University of Richmond, Va. Years in IT: 16 years Experience: 1999 – present, CIO, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. 1997-1999, vice president and CIO, Bristol Hotels & Resorts, Dallas 1995-1997, vice president, WizCom […]
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Thomas H. Murphy
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Title: CIO
Company: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Location: Miami
Industry: Cruise/Vacation
Educational background:
Years in IT: 16 years
Experience:
Career advice: Learn to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, from the boardroom to the cubical. It’s the key to success.
Best career advice ever received: Hire people who are smarter than you are.
Career challenge: Making the leap from a relatively small hotel technology group of 60 people to a Fortune 500 company utilizing advanced technology with more than 300 people in IT.
Solution: Maintain the sound management style and philosophy that works in a small shop; don’t be intimidated by size; focus on the critical deliverables in the first six months.
Last two books read: Finding & Keeping Great Employees, by Jim Harris and Joan Brannick, PhD.; The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, by Michael Lewis
Family: Wife Lisa, son Harrison (7), daughter Kate (3), son Thomas (1)–and one on the way!
Last vacation: Purgatory, Colo., ski vacation, 1999
Hobbies: Music, basketball, reading
Favorite saying and philosophy: People are our most valuable asset and should be treated as such; the most successful companies have the fewest rules.
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