Why The CIO Role Should Be Split In Two
CIO, Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
The CIO role is being splintered into too many mini-CIO positions, bringing increasingly problematic complexity to IT strategy. It's time to rethink how we divvy up IT leadership.
What do the chief digital officer, chief technology officer, chief information security officer, chief transformation officer, chief data officer, and so on, have in common?
All their responsibilities were previously owned by one person: the CIO.
The CIO role today is increasingly being cloned and divided up into multiple mini-CIO roles. It's to the point where you can hardly define what each of these high-powered executives is responsible for and where their clear lines of ownership are. In fact, some of these divisions strike me as frankly a bit artificial.