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Check: How to Verify if a CIO is Important in an Organization

Opinion: Baseline columist Paul A. Strassman asks whether your CIO really has pull in your company, or is IT one of those functions management just tolerates? A Defense Department directive on its own CIO defines what it takes for a CIO to be a player at the highest levels.

How can you tell if information technology matters? Start by examining the role of the chief information officer.

If the CIO does not have the authority to set and execute information management policies, information technology cannot be sufficiently important in a company or other organization. Without an empowered CIO, accountability for technology will be diffused and unfocused.

My checklist for verifying the importance of a CIO is drawn from a 14-page Department of Defense document called Directive 5144.1, issued on May 2.

By Paul A. Strassmann

Full Story: http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1839448,00.asp

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