The next generation CIO? (Chief Integration Officer)

I was fortunate to take some vacation around the 4^th of July holiday. This afforded me time to catch-up on my reading. The June 15, 2010 issue of CIO magazine really got me thinking. Inside the pages were multiple articles discussing the future of the CIO. Here a few quotes from various articles:

1. “The big evolution for CIOs will be the ways they take on responsibility for business processes in organizations. They need to become business engineers.”
2. The IT function is responsible for the only corporate asset that spans the entire company: the technology infrastructure. So IT leaders should absolutely be in the vanguard of those driving better collaboration. They should be spreading the gospel that a more collaborative application is a more productive organization, and helping a company to know what it knows.”
3. “…CEOs want IT leaders who are not only accountable for technology operations, but who also drive innovation, fuel growth, enables change and creates competitive advantage.”