Dropping the CIO title

There's been a lot of writing about the changing nature of the CIO role and the convergence of IT and the business. Some advocate the redundancy of the role, others an evolution of the sort talked about by Rangaswami of BT...

» CIO Sessions: BT’s JP Rangaswami | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

at BT we’ve done away with the CIO title at our levels. We call ourselves MDs [Managing Directors] because we’re fundamentally managing directors of certain businesses and the head of BT design overall is actually called a CEO which reflects what the person does. Part of the reason to get rid of the CIO title was effectively to say that we represent disciplines far beyond just was in IT in the past or in IS, that we represent networks, we represent products, we represent processes. What we represent is design so it made sense for us to come together and converge on that title.