Talk:Chief information officer/Archives/2011

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. 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.

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.

Geospatial Information Officer
I can understand the reference to the Geospatial Information Officer in the first paragraph, but why is the entire second paragraph devoted to explaining what the Geospatial Information Officer is and does? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.150.117.162 (talk) 14:20, 15 October 2008 (UTC)