Today it feels like the CIO has been around since Rockefeller, making decisions with the other C-Suiters. But the truth is the position of CIO isn’t working for today’s business world, less than 30 years after CIOs were born. Often CIOs make decisions on a day to day, project to project basis. Due to this constraint, communication with the CIO and other departments suffer. Toni Bowers at TechRepublic suggests bringing out a Chief Automation Officer (CAO) who can reconnect the CIO and COO in a way where the CIO can go back to doing what a CIO does best--manage information and technology. In this way, CIOs can tack back control of their destiny by refocusing their skills where they are best applied, while the CAO takes control of streamlining how the various branches of the business interact.
To read the original article: How CIOs Get Their Groove Back
