CIO Wisdom II: More Best Practices

Today's CIO

If you think technology has changed a lot in the last 20 years, look at what has happened to the role of the CIO. Though our industry is still quite young (relative to other business functions like accounting and manufacturing), we have seen CIOs evolve from something akin to a “corporate plumber” to the navigator for entire corporations. We've moved from being responsible for running wires and giving visibility to accounting data in huge mainframes to simultaneously virtually connecting data and devices of an entire enterprise and driving core business planning.

We have more data, more devices, more applications, and the boundaries have spanned far outside of the four walls of our corporate domain. Financials aren't just for budgeting ...