What is the difference between CIOs and CTO?

CIO and CTO is we often hear the two noun, but now the domestic often is a job title disorderly call a pass, the name is the CIO is doing the CTO's work, or is actually the CTO but also the work of the CIO, over time, the novice on the distinction between the two more and more blurred, so this article briefly outlined.

The CIO is literally Chief information Officer, translated into CIO, and the CTO is chief technology (or Technical) officer, which can be translated into chief technology officer, technical director or CTO.

While the CIO and CTO work on some of the content that is relevant to the information application is repetitive, the difference is that the CIO is primarily focused on "people", including the need for communication between departments and departments, while the CTO mainly faces "technology", including integration and implementation of various platform technologies. The qualified CIO must not neglect psychology, because cross-departmental communication skills are very important, and excellent CTO has the equivalent of a mathematical strength, the various algorithms and optimization path can not be ignorant. The difference between "psychology" and "math" should be to understand the difference between the object and content of the CIO and CTO work.

So what if the CIO is good or the CTO? Not necessarily, some enterprise organization structure is the CIO on the CTO, and some units are CTO on the CIO, generally speaking, non-computer industry and non-research units do not need to set up a CTO this position, for example, tens of millions of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises are not large enough to set up a research institution, so the CTO is not necessary , the CIO is enough. If you are outgoing and you like to deal with people, the CIO will be a good choice, and if you prefer to be quietly engaged in research and development, then the CTO may be more appropriate.

The word information in Taiwan is often translated into information, while the mainland is translated into a message, the mainland's "undergraduate" in Taiwan collectively referred to as "university", and software-related departments have many kinds, such as: information management (referred to as the capital), information engineering (referred to as the capital workers) ... Read the management of information management, the future graduation is suitable for the CIO route, and the emphasis on information engineering in the overall framework and technology integration, the future graduation is suitable for the CTO route, so we have a little concept?

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