{"id":42416,"date":"2013-03-25T19:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=42416"},"modified":"2013-03-25T19:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T19:23:45","slug":"the-biggest-threat-to-the-cio-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/the-biggest-threat-to-the-cio-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest threat to the CIO is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3>The biggest threat to the CIO is&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>By John Dodge for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisecioforum.com\/en\/blogs\/jdodge\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise CIO Forum<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who is the biggest threat to the CIO? Everyone and no one, apparently, according to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisecioforum.com\/en\/poll\/who-biggest-threat-cio\" target=\"_blank\">latest poll question (vote!)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ciopoll1.jpg\" alt=\"ciopoll\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><BR CLEAR=LEFT><\/p>\n<p>The 46 votes across chief marketing officer, chief financial officer, chief digital officer and other are roughly equal. The other category is the most interesting and JD Irving CIO Martin Davis offer this explanation why he cast his vote this way:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I voted other\u2026\u2026 the CIO is the biggest threat to the CIO. 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