Should CIOs
Have a Foreign
Policy?
BY MINDA ZETLIN
With business operations
entangled in the
unpredictable and
sometimes volatile global
scene, the answer is a
resounding ‘yes’ (and the
more detailed, the better).
IN JULY 2005, a series of suicide bomb attacks in London’s transit system killed 56 people and threw the city into a state of confusion. The U.S.-based CEO of a multinational financial company with offices in London posed what to him seemed a simple and essential question: “Are all our people OK?”
