Roles, responsibilities and futures of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in the public sector

Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 581-588

  Lawry, Rachel ^a   Waddell, Dianne ^b   Singh, Mohini ^c  

^a ACCENTURE   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chief Information Officer; CIO; CIO responsibilities; CIO roles; Public sector

Indexed keywords

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER; CIO; CIO RESPONSIBILITIES; CIO ROLES; PUBLIC SECTOR;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857463880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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