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What it takes to be a successful CIO today

Four different views from Mike Tonkiss, Adam Burstow, Colin Beveridge and Dave Hansen

Paradigm Shift

Long Live the CIO!

No, I haven’t done a spectacular u-turn. In my earlier posting (Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer) I promised to write more about my vision for the future role of the CIO as Chief Integration Officer so here it is as a summary view…

There are probably as many interpretations of the role of Chief Information [...]

Innovation

Who says there has to be a function called IT?

My provocation earlier this week (Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer) has generated a great deal of interest and reaction so far, most of which is so diverse it simply re-inforces my view that the role of Chief Information Officer is so poorly defined and so poorly targeted to justify calling into question the necessity [...]

Innovation

Nobody needs a Chief Information Officer

When the acronym CIO first emerged, many joshed that it stood for “Career Is Over.” Many others couldn’t see the need for a Chief Information Officer at all, because they perceived such a role to be that of a super-librarian, rather than custodian of crucial commercial intelligence (sic). 

Despite widespread ennui about the acronym, the CIO [...]