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| CIO Association of Canada Holds Successful Peer Forum |
April 22, 2008 |
The CIO Associationof Canada, in keeping with its mission to support sharing best practices and national peer networking among CIO's announces the successful completion of its most successful Peer Forum conference to date. With a ten year history of serving CIOs and the only non-commercial, non-vendor affiliated organization working directly with CIOs. More than 100 delegates and a significant number of their C-level executive colleagues came together on April 17 and 18 in Toronto to contemplate the most important issues facing our industry today including:
· The balance between strategic and tactical leadership as CIO's partner with their colleagues and customers to deliver high-value solutions in an increasingly competitive world
· The challenges of the information age on organizations today as the rate of codification of knowledge moves from being measures in decades to hours
· The challenges of serving "digital natives" in an era when executive thought leadership is mostly coming from "digital immigrants"
· The rapid rate of social and technological change we have to master as professionals and executives in leading organizations across Canada
Using a variety of formats including internationally-known keynote speakers, interactive audience response technology, online collaboration and sharing and peer panels, participants were challenged to consider how the role of the CIO is changing and how to rise to this challenge.
Dr. Catherine Boivie, the founding Chair of the CIO Association of Canada said "while the nature of the issues we face today as a CIO have not necessarily changed substantially, the pace of change has created new challenges for me that keep the job as fresh today as it was when I first entered the profession more than 20 years ago".
Conference presenters consistently made the point that the complexity of the world is a challenge for a profession that is often accused of being ultimately structured and lacking in flexibility. Andrew Dillane, the Association's President-elect puts it this way: "We cannot allow our need for consistency and reliability to become an excuse for not providing our colleagues and customers with access to the leading technologies of the day that they need to be successful. The future of social computing and web 2.0 platforms are just one exciting example of emerging technologies that CIO's need to remain ahead of the curve on. We need to lead our business not just manage technology".
For more information or to arrange a more-detailed media interview, please contact Catherine Boivie at 604-419-2003 or e-mail admin@ciocan-national.ca
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