Down To Business: Are Some CIOs Wearing Too Many Hats?
By Rob Preston
InformationWeek
August 1, 2009 12:00 AM (From the August 3, 2009 issue)
There's no right or wrong approach to setting CIOs' responsibilities, but anecdotal evidence suggests we could be stretching them too thin.
A trend among U.S. companies is to give their CIOs marching orders outside the mainstream IT organization, charging them with overseeing the supply chain, for instance, or spearheading something less tangible like innovation or customer management. The thinking: If CIOs (and their organizations) are to really engage with internal business operations and, more important, with partners and customers, they must take on formal responsibilities outside their core technology domain. More http://tinyurl.com/hrcom-VPHR55