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CIO

CIO

17 5.4
A senior manager who leads a company's information technology and data systems
  • noun
  • /siːˈaɪˈoʊ/
  • Jargon
translation icon : director de tecnologías de la información
  • As the CIO of a leading tech firm, she focuses on integrating cloud solutions.
  • CIO and CEO
  • Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • CIO office

So I'm talking to Robert Breedlove and he is the founder and CEO and CIO of Parallax Digital.

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Examples

  • CIOs are incorporating the COBIT concepts in their policies and procedures for managing IT resources.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Where the CEO is the social face of the company, the CIO is rarely seen outside of the business itself.

    Blog text (4)
  • Does the CIO know about this?

  • Perhaps we are seeing the end of the CIO as we have known that role.

    Blog text (17)
  • The shift has an impact on the CIO, who now has the chance to be a change agent.

    Blog text (16)
  • Anyone with a basic understanding of the tech industry can tell you that "CIO" is an extremely prestigious position.

    Blog text (4)
  • Traditionally, the CIO supplied IT services to different lines of business individually.

    Blog text (17)
  • And our first two graduates, one of them is now CIO at the Beth Israel Deaconess.

  • The poll asked 3,000 CIOs about what their reasons are for adopting cloud computing.

    Blog text (16)
  • David Holland is vice president and CIO of Southern Illinois Healthcare, a three-hospital system based in Carbondale, Ill.

    Blog text (12)

Synonyms

CTO
vsCIO
  • Jargon
5 4.6

An executive who plans and leads a company's use of technology

focuses on internal systems, data governance and cybersecurity

Surface Forms

CIO singular
CIOs plural

Etymology

CIO is an abbreviation of Chief Information Officer, where chief means 'head' and information means 'data or facts'. So a CIO is the head person in a company who is in charge of computer systems, data, and security.