The Enterprisers Project interviewed Merv Tarde, the Vice President of Facilities, Real Estate and IT and also the Chief Information Officer at Interstate Batteries about the new role of CIOs in the enterprise, "From my vantage point as CIO, the things that are strategic are what are important to the business...if it is important to them, we are going to talk about it, and as an IT organization, we are going to focus on it."