ABSTRACT
As CIO, you have to be out in front of the company, envisioning the future of your industry, your business, the technology marketplace, and the way that your company and customers will make eective use of technology. Add “future CIO” to that mixture and stir. What are the qualities that the next CIO of your company will need to possess? The skill set and personal attributes of the executive who runs IT in the future will most likely be much dierent from your own. “If you’re planning to retire in the next few years and your replacement is another ‘you’, someone who has worked under you for the past thirty years and has adopted your approach and vision, it is probably a huge miss,” says Cooper.
