Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

chief technology officertochief information officer

A chief technology officer already meets 68% of what the chief information officer role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.

From chief technology officer
68%
Overlap1
To chief information officer
64 Skills carried over
9 Required, not held
46.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

68%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

46.2/ 100

1 Share of the chief information officer role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the chief technology officer profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A chief information officer role treats 14 of its required skills as things a chief technology officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • ICT project management methodologies
  • attack vectors
  • carry out strategic research
  • coordinate technological activities
  • decision support systems
  • define technology strategy

What stands in the way is 9 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 64 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A chief information officer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a chief technology officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held establish an ICT customer support process management skills
  • already held maintain plan for continuity of operations management skills
  • already held review development process of an organisation management skills
  • already held lead technology development of an organisation management skills
  • already held oversee development of software management skills
  • already held monitor ICT research information skills

All 64 carried skills, including the 14 the chief information officer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 25 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 information and communication technologies (icts) 4 required, 10 supplementary
  • required, not held information architecture required
  • required, not held software architecture models required
  • required, not held software design methodologies required
  • required, not held systems development life-cycle required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT architectural frameworks optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held World Wide Web Consortium standards optional
02 information skills 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held forecast future ICT network needs required
  • required, not held implement ICT risk management required
  • optional, not held carry out statistical forecasts optional
03 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held manage software releases required
  • optional, not held manage staff optional
04 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held market analysis required
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required
  • required, not held use different communication channels required
06 working with computers 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held deploy ICT systems optional
  • optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a chief information officer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 64 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT project management methodologies knowledge
  • already held attack vectors knowledge
  • already held carry out strategic research skill
  • already held coordinate technological activities skill
  • already held decision support systems knowledge
  • already held define technology strategy skill
  • already held ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards skill
  • already held implement corporate governance skill
  • already held information structure knowledge
  • already held maintain plan for continuity of operations skill
  • already held monitor technology trends skill
  • already held optimise choice of ICT solution skill
  • already held review development process of an organisation skill
  • already held utilise decision support system skill
  • already held ABAP knowledge
  • already held AJAX knowledge
  • already held APL knowledge
  • already held ASP.NET knowledge
  • already held Agile project management knowledge
  • already held Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held C# knowledge
  • already held C++ knowledge
  • already held COBOL knowledge
  • already held CoffeeScript knowledge
  • already held Common Lisp knowledge
  • already held Erlang knowledge
  • already held Groovy knowledge
  • already held Haskell knowledge
  • already held Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held JavaScript knowledge
  • already held Lisp knowledge
  • already held MATLAB knowledge
  • already held ML (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
  • already held Objective-C knowledge
  • already held OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
  • already held PHP knowledge
  • already held Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Perl knowledge
  • already held Process-based management knowledge
  • already held Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held R knowledge
  • already held Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held SAP R3 knowledge
  • already held SAS language knowledge
  • already held Scala knowledge
  • already held Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held Swift (computer programming) knowledge
  • already held TypeScript knowledge
  • already held VBScript knowledge
  • already held Visual Basic knowledge
  • already held administer ICT system skill
  • already held computer programming knowledge
  • already held digital systems knowledge
  • already held ensure information privacy skill
  • already held establish an ICT customer support process skill
  • already held internet governance knowledge
  • already held lead technology development of an organisation skill
  • already held lean project management knowledge
  • already held manage budgets skill
  • already held monitor ICT research skill
  • already held oversee development of software skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 assisting and caring 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held protect personal data and privacy optional
08 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT architectural frameworks optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held deploy ICT systems optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held implement ICT security policies optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held World Wide Web Consortium standards optional
  • optional, not held carry out statistical forecasts optional
  • optional, not held manage staff optional
  • optional, not held protect personal data and privacy optional
19 held skills the chief information officer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role ICT communications protocols knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT infrastructure knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT quality policy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analyse ICT system skill
  • not needed by the target role build business relationships skill
  • not needed by the target role business intelligence knowledge
  • not needed by the target role business strategy concepts knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hardware components knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hardware components suppliers knowledge
  • not needed by the target role identify processes for re-engineering skill
  • not needed by the target role implement ICT coding conventions skill
  • not needed by the target role industrial research and development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain relationship with customers skill
  • not needed by the target role perform business analysis skill
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role software components libraries knowledge
  • not needed by the target role software components suppliers knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use e-services skill
16 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held information architecture required
  • required, not held software architecture models required
  • required, not held software design methodologies required
  • required, not held market analysis required
  • required, not held systems development life-cycle required
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held DevOps optional
  • optional, not held ICT architectural frameworks optional
  • optional, not held Prototyping development optional
  • optional, not held Rapid application development optional
  • optional, not held Spiral development optional
  • optional, not held Waterfall development optional
  • optional, not held engineering processes optional
  • optional, not held incremental development optional
  • optional, not held iterative development optional
  • optional, not held World Wide Web Consortium standards optional
Index

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Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.