CIO
Encyclopedia
CIO is an acronym that may refer to:
Organizations
Titles within a company or other organization
Other uses
Organizations
- Congress of Industrial OrganizationsCongress of Industrial OrganizationsThe Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, proposed by John L. Lewis in 1932, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not...
, a former United States trade union federation (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) that merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955 - Central Intelligence Organisation, the secret police in ZimbabweZimbabweZimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
- alternate acronym for the International Olympic CommitteeInternational Olympic CommitteeThe International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
(French: Comité international olympique) - Central Imagery Office, a predecessor organization of the National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyNational Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyThe National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
Titles within a company or other organization
- Chief information officerChief information officerChief information officer , or information technology director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and computer systems that support enterprise goals...
, the head of information technology - Chief innovation officerChief innovation officerA chief innovation officer or CINO is a person in a company who "originates new ideas but also recognizes innovative ideas generated by other people."...
, the head of innovation, responsible for innovation management - Chief investment officerChief investment officerThe chief investment officer is a job title for the board level head of investments within an organization. The CIO's purpose is to understand, manage, and monitor their organization's portfolio of assets, devise strategies for growth, act as the liaison with investors, and recognize and avoid...
, the head of investments, especially in an asset manager or institutional investorInstitutional investorInstitutional investors are organizations which pool large sums of money and invest those sums in securities, real property and other investment assets... - Chief Immigration OfficerImmigration OfficerThe role of Immigration officers are to ensure that immigration legislation is enforced. This can cover the rules of entry for Visa applicants, foreign nationals or those seeking asylum at the border, detecting and apprehending those that have breached the border and removing them, or pursuing...
, an operational grade (rank) in the UK Border AgencyUK Border AgencyThe UK Border Agency is the border control body of the United Kingdom government and part of the Home Office. It was formed on 1 April 2008 by a merger of the Border and Immigration Agency , UKvisas and the Detection functions of HM Revenue and Customs...
Other uses
- Cry It Out, an aspect of the Ferberization technique for solving childhood sleep problems
- Concurrent Input/Output, a file systems feature introduced in JFS (file system) in May 2003