chief information officer
Chief information officers define and implement the ICT strategy and governance. They determine necessary resources for the ICT strategy implementation, anticipate ICT market evolutions and company business needs. They contribute to the development of the organisation's strategic plan and ensure that the ICT infrastructure supports the organisation's overall operations and priorities.
Also called: CIO, IT director, chief information officers
- 23
- essential skills
- 66
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 1330
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- chief technology officerWhat changes?13 skills in common
- chief ICT security officer9 skills in common
- ICT information and knowledge manager5 skills in common
- software manager5 skills in common
- chief data officer4 skills in common
- ICT auditor manager4 skills in common
- ICT system analyst4 skills in common
- military engineer4 skills in common
Essential skills
23- attack vectors
- carry out strategic research
- coordinate technological activities
- decision support systems
- define technology strategy
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards
- forecast future ICT network needs
- ICT project management methodologies
- implement corporate governance
- implement ICT risk management
- information architecture
- information structure
- maintain plan for continuity of operations
- manage software releases
- market analysis
- monitor technology trends
- optimise choice of ICT solution
- review development process of an organisation
- software architecture models
- software design methodologies
- systems development life-cycle
- use different communication channels
- utilise decision support system
Optional skills
66- ABAP
- administer ICT system
- Agile development
- Agile project management
- AJAX
- APL
- ASP.NET
- Assembly (computer programming)
- C#
- C++
- carry out statistical forecasts
- COBOL
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- computer programming
- deploy ICT systems
- DevOps
- digital systems
- engineering processes
- ensure information privacy
- Erlang
- establish an ICT customer support process
- Groovy
- Haskell
- ICT architectural frameworks
- implement ICT security policies
- incremental development
- internet governance
- iterative development
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- lead technology development of an organisation
- lean project management
- Lisp
- manage budgets
- manage staff
- MATLAB
- Microsoft Visual C++
- ML (computer programming)
- monitor ICT research
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- oversee development of software
- Pascal (computer programming)
- Perl
- PHP
- Process-based management
- Prolog (computer programming)
- protect personal data and privacy
- Prototyping development
- Python (computer programming)
- R
- Rapid application development
- Ruby (computer programming)
- SAP R3
- SAS language
- Scala
- Scratch (computer programming)
- Smalltalk (computer programming)
- Spiral development
- Swift (computer programming)
- TypeScript
- VBScript
- Visual Basic
- Waterfall development
- World Wide Web Consortium standards
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