I often appreciate your interesting views. But this time, again, you may be rather mistaken.

You DO NEED a CIO, more than ever!
Even though, or better, even MORE when you use cloud services.
The need has little to do with the machine park you own, but everything with how your organisation is using ICT . . .

And by the way, today the comparison with electricity is not very appropriate.
But, interesting enough, your comparison hides a prediction for the future: soon organisations will again need a CEgyO, yes for Energy: using energy and producing energy efficiently is becoming a challenge by itself.

And this then hides another prediction: in the future the CIO will be needed, not only to manage the cloud service usage, but also the services provided TO THE CLOUD: this will be the Smart Cloud (comparable to the Smart Grid) . . . .

BR,
Cees Lanting

Sen Mkt Mgr
CSEM (CH).