Evolve as CIO

These days, C-level recruiters say chief information officers are taking on new responsibilities that require them to think like a business-type more so than a systems-type. To some degree this is being fueled by what's going on in the CFO's office. Carl Gilcrist, of Spencer Stuart, says that CIOs are increasingly taking over managing shared services within an organization, a role typically held by business-types. For financial-oriented apps, the logic goes that the CFO is burdened with Sarbanes-Oxley and other laws and doesn't have time. That makes some sense. But I would think that compliance has become a huge issue for many CIOs, as security and IT governance issues are huge these days. So I would think that broad-minded CIO might break out of the techno box a bit by becoming a compliance resource for the CFO. Being the GRC point man seems like a good spot to be. If you're up to it. Column