According to motorcycle companies with a global reach, wary of hiring US CISOs asks missionario Zehnder consultant Kal Bittianda in an article for by InformationWeek. Their rule - -based approach is generally seen as too narrow to manage the challenges of company's global environments, explains Bittianda.

Major U.S. companies are creating digital advisory panels - an informal and smaller version of a corporate board - to help them innovate online and advise management on trends in social media, big data and digital commerce.

The appeal for Wall Street finance chiefs moving to Silicon Valley extends beyond The technology industry 's strength and lucrative pay packages, reports The Wall Street Journal' s CFO Journal.

Silicon Valley is becoming a more frequent destination for high - level banking executives from Wall Street, attracted by the technology industry 's strength and opportunities to innovate outside of the regulatory environment in financial services.

We once heard a board chairman call a CIO serving on his board, a "one - note a piano," because the CIO repeated his same theme over and over.