We have Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and now CIO 2.0. Technically, this is not new, as a number of articles and bloggers have dealt with the subject over the past 12-18 months. A good treatment of the subject appears in the latest CIO Rant post. IT and business leaders should become acquainted with the concepts behind the transformation of this important role.
In a recent article, the question of whether Twitter was a useful tool was put to a panel of CIOs in the UK. The comments are interesting and we thank silicon.com for publishing them. On our companion site, CIORANT, we explored why CIOs might not be using Twitter or other social media tools. Bottom line: many organizations have a decison to make about how “open” to social media they want to be and this openness starts at the firewall. Beyond that, there is a bit of science that has yet to be applied to the question about whether productivity, privacy, information security and assorted legal issues exist. Until that gets sorted out, look for zero risk approaches to be the rule.
“CIOs must use new technologies carefully w/o being perceived as geeks lest they lose their hard fought cred with peer VPs in other functions.”
