CIO role has come a long way however, getting a seat at the executive table is a hard thing for CIOs in many organizations. This article provides a framework to assess an organization’s willingness to accept the CIO as an "equal" to their business counterparts, concluding that "dominant assumptions about IT in different areas of an enterprise can explain differences in CIO status"
This paper discusses the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) – the issues it faced in its infancy, current faces and is expected to face in the future – in the context of culture and alignment. 
The author presents a framework for CIO performance arguing that IT’s contribution to business results or a CIO’s performance is not just contingent upon their capability but also on other factors – some of which are directly related to others in the C-Suite.
The authors propose that there are five different models/types of CIOs – utility, evangalist, innovator, facilitator, and agile – and the best one for an organization is determined by the role IT plays in business strategy and leadership maturity.
This article discusses the emerging Chief Information Officer (CIO) role of business technology strategist and its relationship with the three traditional IT manager roles – informational, decisional and interpersonal.
How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? For CIOs, what are the challenges and opportunities of this increasing complexity? To find out, IBM spoke in person with 3,018 CIOs, spanning 71 countries and 18 industries. The
This academic paper discusses the skills and responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role.
This article highlights the developing role of the chief information officer (CIO) – an increasingly significant business role that has developed in recent years from being a technically-oriented support function to a commercially-focused part of the business.
This presentation discusses the role and responsibilities of an innovation leader – do CIOs fit the bill?
This analysis offers a comprehensive look at how different CIO reporting structures can significantly influence a firm’s strategic positioning and performance. The authors argue that the ideal CIO reporting structure should be contingent on the firm’s strategy.
