Inside the Social Network: Facebook CIO Tim Campos says the next generation CIO will deal with "a lot more information", and expects the role to be a lot more data focused, and a "lot less operationally focused".

Facebook CIO Tim Campos says the next generation CIO will deal with "a lot more information", and expects the role to be a lot more data focused, and a "lot less operationally focused".

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He says there will be far more information captured and produced than has ever been possible in human history. "All that information is a gold mine of potential for companies to build products and services that are going to have a tremendous amount of value to the bottom line," says Campos, who is in Auckland this week as a keynote speaker at the CIO Summit which starts today.

He says the one role in the organisation that knows how to take advantage of that data is the CIO, the head of ICT. "There is going to be a resurgence of business oriented technology leaders in the CIO role because of these trends," says Campos, in an interview with CIO New Zealand on the eve of the conference.

As to how CIOs...