How to be a CIO

It's well known that CIOs rarely have a set career path. In fact, many like to leave it that way. At a recent Silicon.com CIO Forum, Brinley Platts, chairman of CIO Development, said: "In all my years working with CIOs, I've never met one with a career plan." Other speakers at the conference said they never set out to become CIOs, and they expect their next job to be higher up in another organization. Mitchell Lenson, ex-CIO of Deutsche Bank, noted, "The middle word in CIO is information, not technology--so if you are a chief technology officer you can worry about boxes and data centers--but if you are a CIO it's about information which everyone needs to see."

For more on CIO careers:
- check out this Silicon.com article