Talk:Chief operating officer
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Should small Internet companies have a COO? What departments should report to the COO in order for them to true "occupy" this role.
ideas?
- Here's one take on the role (Dept. of Homeland Security): http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04876r.pdf
- and this site (http://www.hr.duke.edu/jobs/descr/1200/1259.htm) lists these primary roles:
- Advise the CEO on strategic business development and key corporate planning issues and make recommendations on major business decisions.
- Shape and develop division strategy and organization.
- Encourage managers to evaluate and take actions that are consistent with DCRI's overall strategy which will lead to high performance.
- Set performance goals which are tailored to each division.
- Monitor division performance against performance goals to ensure that progress is being made and collective action - if necessary - is taken.
- Lead program.-, to build organizational capabilities.
Jeff Worthington 16:55, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
There is no real role title, the COO is an honorific position and the actual responsibilities vary from company to company.
I'm not sure about the inclusion of "CHO" (Chief Hacking Officer). I added a really brief comment in the page it links to, but I actually think it's far too colloquial for inclusion in this list of titles. Sweetman 02:31, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
'CHO' Deleted - Clearly a neologism. Sweetman 00:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with the Director of Operations redirect to this page. While a COO has responsibilities across the business, the DirOps is a simple infrastructure management role. I have no idea how to disable that redirect but if I did I would do it now and create a stub for Director of Operations. Any comment before I go to the trouble? Paulvallee 17:44, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
