Modern organizations have some wierd positions. CIO, CKO, CTO, CPO and COO are the GenX Chiefs in demand. CEO is the most common and well established position closely followed by CFO.
CIO and CTO are often treated as synonyms. In a world where everyone thinks only about IT as 'the Technology', they both deal with the business's IT.
IT itself is an interesting concept. Sometime later, I will dwelve on its radical evolution. Notwithstanding the fact that world's largest number of graduates are engaged in unravelling and developing IT, the most common conception is that of universal expertise and knowledge of one and all on it. I havent met anyone stating ignorance or lesser understanding of any or for that matter all aspects of IT.
Head IT Department (HIT) is another very potential new position most companies created by 1990s. Significance and importance of HIT could become a classic example of rapid change.
Companies like Banks started with HITs as support HODs to become the main business drivers with e-banking. In others the HIT along with IT per-se has become ERP. In engineering and operations dominated companies, HIT has come to represent the corporate IT infrastructure (Networks, Desktops, Emails, Security, Internet, Gateways, +++).
Who is this CIO then? Why and where does this role perform? How does this distinguish from CTO?
These have become important to me on 2006. It remains important. I took over as CIO to a large business.
In this blog, I propose to examine the growth of INFORMATION and its significance along with why INFORMATION OFFICER needs to be a CHIEF. Let us wait to think.
CIO and CTO are often treated as synonyms. In a world where everyone thinks only about IT as 'the Technology', they both deal with the business's IT.
IT itself is an interesting concept. Sometime later, I will dwelve on its radical evolution. Notwithstanding the fact that world's largest number of graduates are engaged in unravelling and developing IT, the most common conception is that of universal expertise and knowledge of one and all on it. I havent met anyone stating ignorance or lesser understanding of any or for that matter all aspects of IT.
Head IT Department (HIT) is another very potential new position most companies created by 1990s. Significance and importance of HIT could become a classic example of rapid change.
Companies like Banks started with HITs as support HODs to become the main business drivers with e-banking. In others the HIT along with IT per-se has become ERP. In engineering and operations dominated companies, HIT has come to represent the corporate IT infrastructure (Networks, Desktops, Emails, Security, Internet, Gateways, +++).
Who is this CIO then? Why and where does this role perform? How does this distinguish from CTO?
These have become important to me on 2006. It remains important. I took over as CIO to a large business.
In this blog, I propose to examine the growth of INFORMATION and its significance along with why INFORMATION OFFICER needs to be a CHIEF. Let us wait to think.
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