Once upon a time the CIO job had very little to do with the company that  you worked for. 

Instead of having to worry about what the company was  up to, you could spend your time focused on building data centers,  selecting servers, and installing more storage. What it was being used  for really did not matter all that much. However, now the person in the  CIO position has a seat at the company’s planning table and what the business does is almost as important as how it goes about doing this. 

Nowhere is this more evident than in the business of searching for oil…