It professional role today and tomorrow Colin Thompson (bcs, uk) Abstract

Competencies for senior roles 

Further research carried out under the BCS Professionalism programme looked at 

the competencies and capabilities of the most successful Chief Information 

Officers (CIOs), and others in senior positions. The results

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 suggest that whilst 

foundation technical and managerial competencies are still important these are not 

the competencies that drive distinctive performance by those in senior positions.  

Those foundation competencies will typically be developed and applied by 

                                                           

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