The Council's Future-State CIO® program was developed by a group of thought leaders from companies including Chevron, H&R Block, Raytheon, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The goal was to define the future of the CIO role and offer a path forward based on essential executive leadership competencies. We built a now widely accepted model that divided the CIO role into three aspects -- function head, transformational leader and business strategist. The future-state CIO is defined as one that spends a large percentage of his or her time on business strategist-related activities.
In partnership with global executive recruiter and talent assessment firm Egon Zehnder, we built a competency assessment program for CIOs and senior IT leaders who want to succeed as next-generation CIOs. This is also the same model that is used in the next-generation leadership development program, Pathways.
We launched a CIO magazine column series in which members wrote about each competency in the context of their own professional experience. This is complemented by similarly themed live leadership seminar teleconferences and taped video interviews. A full-blown HBR-style case study followed, along with a major study of the role and competencies as part of CIO magazine's
2008 State of the CIO survey.
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