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In this video, Alan Pawlak, executive director of client services for Aetna, explains how the CIO role is changing everywhere.

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"I think the CIO role obviously is changing everywhere.

Currently we're defining it at the company, so I can't give you what our definition is yet. But I would almost call it the Chief Education Officer combined with a Chief Culture Officer combined with the Chief Innovation Officer because it's somebody who interprets what's going on with technology, how we look at our assets in our systems, in our data and how we can create business products out of that. So they educate the executives in the c-suite so that they can use the tools we have at our disposal and understand what they're doing and understand the risk around it."

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Nano Serwich is Editor of The Enterprisers Project and Global Awareness Content Manager at Red Hat.