How often (annually, semi annually or quarterly or as needed) should the CIO brief the Board (BOD) on state of technology in the organization?
Depends on issues such as: how tech savvy is the board? How connected are they to IT? How much do they want to know?
Once questions like that are quantified, then you can know how often they should be briefed.
With that, I think semiannual works for most organizations as annual is just not frequent enough.
Ben, I don't disagree. If the board cannot grasp tech's role in the success and survivability of the company, I can see the point of not trying to lead those horses to water. As a shareholder, I might want thirstier horses in the stable.
What I have seen in the past, broker dealers (Financial Org) the board required semiannual presentation from the CIO roadmap progress. The were also very interested in incidents, specifically, cyber attacks and trends of these attacks. Today I suspect they wanted quarterly or more frequent updates. One major breach can cost the company a lot of money, reputational damage, intellectual property loss, affect their competitive advantage and worst case scenario put them out of business.
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