Talk:Chief information officer

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The last paragraph is very poorly written, can anyone with more information on this backronym help? --Ma Baker 3 July 2005 20:07 (UTC)

[edit] Information Management is more than IT Management

The definition in the article's first sentence restricts the responsibility to technology. While this might be appropriate for some CIOs today, it is certainly a conservative definition and ignores the challenges of information management to today's organisations [1]. Boochever et al. support the expansion from information technology management to information management by defining the CIO by its four roles strategist, business advisor, IT executive, and architect [2].

This expansion is similar to the point of view of security consultant Bruce Schneier (see Bruce Schneier, Secrets & Lies, John Wiley & Soncs, Inc., 2000, preface page xii) about the topic of his profession:

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

The CIO is the top level information manager. Analogous to Schneier: If you think IT can solve your information management problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand IT.