Are You Loyal to Your Company or Your Profession?

What’s the best way to rise to the CIO level and beyond? Is it best to get broad-based business experience or more in-depth IT experience? At last month’s SIM luncheon here in Chicago the speaker was a former CEO of Baxter International and now is a partner at a well known private equity firm named Madison Dearborn Partners. He talked about the CEO – CIO relationship and how to climb the business career ladder.