With my IT background, the CIO is a familiar concept. Chief Information Officers are senior head honchos in the IT world. One of the many so-called CxOs (Chief Something-or-other Officers) like Chief Executives (CEOs), Chief Finance Officers (CFOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs).
So I was surprised to see a comment about “the long-delayed arrival of CIOs” in Third Sector (a magazine for people working in charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises) and was wondering how come CIOs and their seemingly late arrival could be important to charities. Were charities particularly slow to adopt the role of CIO? I asked myself…
However, reading on, it’s apparent that the CIOs being referred to are “charitable incorporated organisations” and the delays are those in establishing them and a suitable regulatory regime.
Lesson for me: just because something is familiar to you doesn’t mean it will be to people reading what you write. It would have been enormously helpful for me if Third Sector had expanded the acronym when they first used it. No more unexplained TLAs* for me!
* Three Letter Acronyms
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