Summary: Guest: Alex Z. Pettit Title: State Chief Information Officer and Secretary of Information Technology and Telecommunications Guest: Saad Ayub Title: Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Scholastic Inc. The Chief Strategy Officer defines, refines, and brings clarity to the strategic issues an organization faces, so that all resources can be aligned into one cohesive force focused on a single mission, ready to move the company forward. Is the role of CIO good training for this kind of responsibility? If we wanted to train a CIO to better prepare him/her for the role of Chief Strategist, what advantages or handicaps would such training create for a CIO?
