CIO vs an IT Services Supermarket

Don Tapscott on the continued need for a CIO in industry. Interesting thoughts, but by the same reasoning why do we need any executive leaders?  A CIO should be a leader, both for current needs, and for forecasting future information technology needs.   Also for communicating to other executives about the power of technologies. We worked with a number of models in an executive information technology research organization to make this happen.   In Linkedin.