Information Literacy for the CEO

Abstract

Computers and information technology are a relatively new concern of today's CEOs and senior managers. Because many have attained their positions without being computer literate, they feel it is either too late to learn or that their involvement is irrelevant. This article discusses techniques that IS executives can employ to help make their CEOs and senior managers information literate.

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Jerry Kanter

Jerry Kanter is the director of consulting services, Honeywell Bull Inc. He has had more than 25 years of experience in the technical and managerial aspects of information systems. A practitioner, writer, and planner, he devotes time to educational enterprises both at work and in outside activities. His book, Management Information Systems (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall);, is used as a standard text in many information systems courses. He has published five other books and numerous articles. Kanter has taught courses at Babson College and Northeastern and lectured at Harvard. Dartmouth, Baylor, and Northwestern as well as at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. He holds BA and MBA degrees from Harvard and has an appointment at Babson College as executive director of the Center for Information Management Studies.