{ "id": "081db221527a", "url": "http://readwrite.com/2011/03/03/four-new-types-of-cio-for-the", "title": "Four New Types of CIO for the Future", "note": "The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO. Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and IT's lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R \"Ray\" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year.\n\n\nNow in a new paper he has written for his own firm, Wang is exploring the future of the role that the CIO plays. He comes to the table with considerable insights. Wang is a global traveler who meets with CIOs on a constant basis in his role as principal analyst and CEO of Constellation Research, an independent firm with a key focus on the transitions the enterprise is experiencing.\n\nSponsor\n\n\nIn the report, he proposes four new types of CIO: Chief \"Infrastructure\" Officers, Chief \"Integration\" Officers, Chief \"Intelligence\" Officers, and Chief \"Innovation\" Officers.\n\n\n\"The top CIOs will seek mastery of all four personas,\" Wang writes. \"Others will bring expertise within the four personas into the team.\"\n\n\nChief Infrastructure Officers\n\nInfrastructure officers will do much of what is expected of modern CIOs: reduce infrastructure costs, manage legacy technology and ensure smooth IT operations. Top priorities for infrastructure officers will include eliminating \"shelfware,\" adopting virtualization and cloud technologies, and renegotiating contracts.\n\n\nChief Integration Officers\n\nAnother term for this might be \"Chief Connection Officer.\" The integration officer will connect various IT systems. One important task will be bridging legacy and cloud services. \n\n\nChief Intelligence Officers\n\nWe don't need to tell you that data is the future. The intelligence officer will be tasked with getting the right data to the right people on the right devices. Their top priorities will be establishing and measuring key performance indicators, improving data quality and choosing the right business intelligence and analysis tools.\n\n\nChief Innovation Officers\n\nWe've seen this title thrown around a lot over the past few years. A few months ago, Business Week did a piece on this role. According the article, AMD, Citigroup, Coca Cola, DuPont, Humana and Owens Corning all have chief innovation officers.\n\n\nAccording to the Constellation report, innovation officers will focus on identifying disruptive technologies and finding ways to apply them in the enterprise. \n\n\nWhat do you think?\n\nDoes this seem like a reasonable forecast to you? Where do you see yourself fitting into this framework?\n\n\nIf you want to read more, check out Wang's article for the Harvard Business Review.\n\nDiscuss", "voice": "excerpt", "saved": "2011-03-04T01:15:09Z", "host": "readwrite.com", "kind": "page", "tags": [], "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/081db221527a/", "markdown": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/081db221527a.md", "issues": [], "connections": { "same_host": { "count": 57, "page": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/readwrite.com/", "nearest": [ { "id": "78358d3caf78", "title": "Dear Twitter: You're a Utility - Get Off The Fence And Start Acting Like One", "url": "http://readwrite.com/2011/02/21/dear_twitter_youre_a_utility_-_get_off_the_fence_and_start_acting_like_one", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/78358d3caf78/" }, { "id": "6d8d0c5a04fe", "title": "MySQL Fork Drizzle Finally Releases First General Availability Version", "url": "http://readwrite.com/2011/03/17/drizzle-a-new-fork-of-mysql", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6d8d0c5a04fe/" }, { "id": "62076414d569", "title": "Happy Birthday - the Wiki Celebrates its Sweet 16", "url": "https://readwrite.com/2011/03/26/happy-birthday-the-wiki-cele/", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/62076414d569/" }, { "id": "dea3096fc49e", "title": "Rackspace Shutting Down Slicehost", "url": "http://readwrite.com/2011/05/03/rackspace-shutting-down-sliceh", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/dea3096fc49e/" }, { "id": "62c30bcf4453", "title": "4 Ways to Roll Your Own Dropbox Alternative", "url": "http://readwrite.com/2011/05/03/4-ways-to-build-your-own-dropbox", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/62c30bcf4453/" } ] }, "same_week": { "count": 31, "nearest": [ { "id": "c458702bf225", "title": "The Baha'i's of Minneapolis", "url": "http://mplsbahai.org/", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c458702bf225/" }, { "id": "f875774973d1", "title": "Help:Contents - Referata", "url": "http://www.referata.com/wiki/Help:Contents", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f875774973d1/" }, { "id": "d1436a400f2a", "title": "MediaWiki Widgets", "url": "http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Widgets_Catalog", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1436a400f2a/" }, { "id": "a1d39d28d407", "title": "Launch.MN Aims to Bring the Tech Community Together Under One Roof", "url": "http://tech.mn/news/2011/03/03/launch-mn-project-skyway/", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a1d39d28d407/" }, { "id": "b5503c469f38", "title": "Defining Internet “freedom”: Ars interviews Senator Al Franken", "url": "http://tech.mn/news/2011/03/01/ars-technica-interview-al-franken/", "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b5503c469f38/" } ] }, "mentions": [], "mentioned_by": [], "saved_twice": [] }, "elsewhere": { "wayback": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://readwrite.com/2011/03/03/four-new-types-of-cio-for-the" } }