Building better business ties

Just received a copy of Computing Canada in the mail. Check out this article, Executive Roundtable-Building better business ties. It's a good read. Here are some excerpt from the article about the job of CIO. The bolded are the notes to myself since I'm acting as a CIO/CTO of my company.

"Be a business manager first and then technology can fit in from there."

"Your job is not only to manage the IT department, it is also to be a great communicator to the operations side of the business."

"The CIO has to be a member of the executive team and involved in business decisions as much as the CEO, the COO or the CFO."

"They have to be passionate about the project they have to have the time to communicate."