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The only thing constant is change, and the roles and responsibilities of the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/cio" target="_blank">CIO</a>, and the entire IT department for that matter, has been shifting a lot over the last couple of years. EMC’s Ken Oestreich intelligently predicted this shift about five years ago with<a href="http://gigaom.com/cloud/the-cio-as-the-it-supply-chain-manager/" target="_blank"> his post for GigaOM</a>, discussing why <em>he</em> thinks that the CIO would essentially become the new IT supply chain manager. He writes that “IT and its organization will gradually shift in the following domains,” then citing “functional roles, skill sets, consumption models, and operational functions.