C-Suite

The professional CIO

Building credibility and a standard of professionalism into the world of CIOs

26 April 2021

As technology becomes ever more entwined with business strategy and increasingly pervasive across the organisation, the need to elevate the CIO’s standing and professionalise the role continues to grow. For years, there have been calls to recognise the strategic importance of the CIO to the organisation; finally, it seems we’re getting somewhere. In late 2019, the IITPSA and CIO Council of South Africa launched the Professional CIO (Pr.CIO) accreditation, thus pushing the CIO’s status to a new level.

“We realised the industry as a whole needed to be able to identify a qualified, competent CIO at a glance,” says Thabo Mashegoane, IITPSA president.

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