Bill Gates once said: “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.”

In many ways this quote could also be used to nicely summarise the biggest change in the business world over the last 10 years – the evolution of information.

Information management and analysis has always been vital to businesses, that much is obvious. But while information has always been there, it’s the way in which people use that information which has evolved considerably over the last decade or so.

Information is such an important commodity and one that holds great value to any businesses. It’s because of this that the person in charge of managing information is the most important person for any company.

If information is the sceptre, CIOs are king

There’s a well-used quip that CIOs are now ‘chief …