CIO to CAO: Is It a Natural Progression?
CIO Insight’s article on CIOs who take on more roles in the business brings up many issues to ponder. One of them is a potential career path beyond CIO that might be facilitated by a willingness to add roles and responsibilities to a CIO’s portfolio. The story of Beth Perlman, CIO of Constellation Energy, is interesting:
Perlman’s success managing IT and real estate for Constellation Energy resulted in CEO Mayo Shattuck III expanding her role even further, giving Perlman the added title of chief administrative officer [CAO] when he reorganized his executive staff a year ago. She now oversees human resources, supply chain and business performance improvement, as well as IT and real estate.
“It’s all about problem solving,” Perlman says, “and asking the right questions to get to the heart of the matter.”
CIOs who are business people and, of course, executive material can pull this off. I’m really interested in whether there are a significant number of CIO types who see this as a career path. My sense is that, if a CIO can do this, the project management and PMO skills alone could lead to much better alignment of projects with, and execution of, strategies.
Have you done this or heard of a story like this? What steps led to the ultimate assignment of CAO or another executive role?
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