How to Recruit CIOs More Successfully Written by Bjorn Ovar Johansson In the current complex and fast-moving digital world, it is often challenging to recruit CIOs. Having an experienced interim CIO onboard supporting the process of hiring a permanent CIO can significantly reduce the risk during (the interim CIO is steading and controlling the ship) and after. Considering the value-add, avoiding a CIO ‘gap’, and minimising the risk for hiring a, on paper, ‘great’, CIO who then leaves pre-maturely, could make this concept an investment worth considering. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on this approach. BACKGROUND With 25 years in CIO and IT leadership positions (12 as an independent interim including one year for an international recruitment business) the following ideas will hopefully provide sensible (and some provocative?) advice to recruiters and CPOs on how to hire CIOs more successfully.