What is a CIO that a CEO shouldn't understand? This whole act kills me. What better way to excuse chief executive responsibility than pass off these responsibilities to someone else? Perhaps in the largest of large multi-national corporations ok, but the rest of them let the CEO do the dirty work.

Does IT contribute to the bottom line? Are users using the network for business advancement or their own personal entertainment? Not that a CEO should be poking around in the day-to-day nuances of user surfing, but there should be at least a fundamental understand in-place as to how the network is being used. Delegating this to someone else can be foolish and dangerous.

I've seen numerous instances where the CIO was cooking up their own personal brew of subterfuge, corruption and lies. Exempting themselves from rules and regulations, the CEO was completely taken by surprise when a vendor accidentally exposed that the CIO was downloading porn to their desktop. OOOOPS! Not that this isn't common, the fact is that until the CEO takes a more active interest in how "TECHNOLOGY" is employed in their operations and "WHAT" that technology actually does for the company they will be HOSTAGE to the technology, then keep hiring those CIOs. Ignorance is bliss. But this doesn't help when you're being audited by a government compliance officer.

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