Dave Webb, 2012 Honoree
- Title
- CIO
- Employer
- Equifax Inc.
- Location
- Atlanta,
- Job responsibility you'd like to delete?
- Conventional budgeting. In a world where things change so quickly, to pretend we can view the world nine months from now isn't realistic. We would be much better served with a model of rolling quarterly forecasts, not trying to predict what's going to happen in nine to 12 months.
- Skills you'll hire for this year?
- Technical skills are less important in IT today than ever before. It's much more important that you hire smart people.
- What's your boldest IT prediction?
- I think the CIO role, as we know it, could disappear. If you consider the evolution we are experiencing today, where infrastructure is becoming a utility, the role of a technical CIO is diminishing. We'll spend 90% of our time on business and 10% on helping with technology-related issues. In reality, technology is the simpler piece of the puzzle today.