This is very good article and some thing that every CIO goes through in his career. I like the two statements above

* Would you hire a CFO that had only ancillary experience in finance?
* Would you hire a VP for Sales that didn???t know the sales process from start to finish?

This kind of summarizes the entire discussion. A CIO is also a professional and should be treated as one. Like the other so called line functions like VP-Sales, CFO etc...