The position of Chief Information Officer (CIO) has become increasingly important in companies. However, it can be perceived that this professional, whose functions are increasingly complex, realizes that his/her core competencies are not always sufficient to tackle the daily professional routine centered around the constant transformations the business arena has witnessed. Thus, by using Social Representation Theory operationalized by the Words Evocation Technique, this article sets out to investigate what the Brazilian IT professional perceptions about the CIO core competencies are, in order to compare them with the Brazilian CIO perceptions about his/her own competencies. The work concludes that in Brazil there is strong cognitive dissonance between those perceptions, as only the “capacity to influence the organization†and “technical expertise†competencies are perceived as being essential competencies for CIOs both by IT professionals and CIOs themselves. Lastly, the article highlights some managerial implications accrued from the results obtained.

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从IT专业人员的角度来看CIO能力

首席信息官（CIO）的职位在公司中变得越来越重要。但是，可以感觉到，这位职能越来越复杂的专业人员意识到，他/她的核心能力并不总是足以应付围绕业务领域不断变化的日常职业日常工作。因此，本文将通过词汇激发技术实施的社会表征理论，着手研究巴西IT专业人员对CIO核心能力的看法，以便将其与巴西CIO对自己能力的看法进行比较。这项研究得出的结论是，在巴西，这些认知之间存在强烈的认知失调，因为只有“影响组织的能力”和“技术专长”才能被IT专业人员和CIO本身视为CIO的基本能力。最后，本文重点介绍了从所得结果中获得的一些管理意义。