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A Review of Chief Information Officer’ Main Skills

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Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2010)

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Information Systems are transforming our lives. Their social and economic impact means opportunities and challenges for people, organizations and governments. Being decisive for competitiveness, they are more and more taken in account by companies, which look at them in order to find a way of improving the business. In this context, the CIO (Chief Information Officer) has a central role, and needs to perform several tasks to ensure that information systems under his supervision are efficient. To be competent in his job, the CIO needs several skills. In this paper, the CIO’s main skills are identified and discussed.

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  1. Departamento de Engenharias, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Apartado 1013, Quinta de Prados, 5001-801, Vila Real, Portugal

    Luis Portela, Roberto Carvalho, João Varajão & Luis Magalhães

  2. Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal

    João Varajão

  3. INESC Porto, Portugal

    Luis Magalhães

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  1. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez de Pablos

  3. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Adrian Ziderman

  4. De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

    Alan Roulstone

  5. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Hermann Maurer

  6. Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA

    Jonathan B. Imber

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Portela, L., Carvalho, R., Varajão, J., Magalhães, L. (2010). A Review of Chief Information Officer’ Main Skills. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_44

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