ARMA NNJ Oct. 12 Meeting. Barclay Blair presents: 

CIO: Why the Title is a Lie.

CIO: Why the Title is a Lie

Every day in the courts another organization is forced to admit that it has lost control of its information. That it doesn't know where it is, what it is, or how to get to it. That it is stored in a way that way that makes it nearly impossible to retrieve and questions its trustworthiness. This reality can be traced to a single problem: the title" CIO" is a lie.  

Despite the title, Chief Information Officers are not responsible for information. Rather, their responsibility lies with the systems. So, if the executive with the word "information" in their title is not responsible, then who is?

This session will examine how this fundamental breakdown in corporate governance leads to failure. It will build its case through a variety of current court cases, anecdotes, and statistics, and will propose alternative governance structures to address the problem. We will explore:

• The business and legal consequences of this apparent gap in corporate governance
• Whether the role of the CIO should change, whether a new executive role should be created, or if another member of the executive roundtable should take on new responsibilities in order to tackle this problem
• How current attempts at many organizations to create enterprise "data maps" illustrate the gaps between the way business, IT, and legal view information
• How newer technologies like social networking only make the challenge greater and more complex
•  How technologies like SharePoint that put more control in the hands of the user may reduce the burden on IT, but create new compliance and business problems

Barclay T. Blair is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors, and government institutions, and is an author, speaker, and internationally recognized authority on a broad range of policy, compliance, and management issues related to information governance and information technology. Barclay has led several high-profile consulting engagements at the world’s leading institutions to help them globally transform the way they manage information. He is the president and founder of ViaLumina. Barclay is the author of three books, including his most recent, Information Nation (Second Edition). He is currently working on his forth, to be published by John Wiley and Sons in 2011.