Good article about working together at the top levels. I've been in places where the CIO is not lucky and has a difficult time with CFO budgets, and each incident I have seen comes from the lack of interest with technology from the top. About a year ago I had a CIO, as he identified himself in healthcare beg to differ with me in the fact that he stated he was an "executive CIO" and that he had been a CIO at several companies and went on further to say that technology knowledge was not important to being a CIO. Now that was a year ago, and I wonder if perhaps his comments might change by today's standards. You can do a search to find the article on the blog. Just from the readers here and others who link to this blog, I think there might be a real difference of opinion.(grin). BD
We interview CIOs all the time for both our traditional magazine-style stories and our one-on-one Web exclusives. These
conversations are wide ranging, covering everything from leadership perspectives to implementation specifics. One of our favorite lines of questioning drills down on the CEOs they work for, to discover how the boss can contribute to, or hinder, CIO effectiveness. Because we usually talk to IT leaders that are finding some measure of success, its not surprising their CEOs are cast in a positive light. But not everyone is so lucky.
I'm sure some reading this column work for the (ital) other (end ital) type of CEO, the one that has you reporting to a tough-as-nails CFO who's got you on budgetary lockdown.
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