Choosing the Best Side Roads

摘要

Jeff Campbell was promoted to CIO at The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF) 16 months ago, after masterminding a complete overhaul of the $9 billion transportation company's global procurement and sourcing operation. Temple University's Tim O'Rourke spent more than a decade as the university's comptroller before his promotion to vice president for computer and. information services. As IT comes to permeate virtually every nook and cranny of large enterprises, top IT executives are moving into their leadership roles from other parts of the business, notably finance and operations. For organizations with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion, company knowledge is the most important CIO selection criterion, according to research conducted jointly in 2003 by Computer Sciences Corp. and Financial Executives International, a professional association.