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Advice for State CIOs: Make IT Interesting New CIOs need to learn the importance of marketing technology to leadership. Tod Newcombe | June 2015 When Doug Robinson meets an incoming IT director, he often has to provide a reality check. “I tell all new CIOs that information technology is not important to governors; it’s only interesting.” Robinson, executive director of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), has had to do that a lot lately. Between appointments by new governors, changes in existing administrations, and resignations and retirements, there are 14 new state CIOs this year. And they’ve arrived at a time when the use of IT has never been as important as it is now. ....