Cloud Computing What does the role of the CIO look like in 2016?
May 23, 2016
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.
It is a question which carries more resonance as technology matures: what is the major role of the CIO today? The usual responses range from improving business efficiency, to spearheading the organisation’s technological revolution. At the MIT Sloan CIO Conference earlier this month, the answer was simple.
“The perfect CIO is enabling the perfectly friction-less business,” argued Steve Rosenbush, the editor of CIO Journal. Yet there are many layers to uncover to get to the heart of this statement. Harvey Nash and KPMG have today released a report on ‘the creative CIO’. The authors, Harvey Nash chief executive Albert Ellis and KPMG International global CIO advisory service network lead Lisa Heneghan, conclude that despite an increasing examination of security, the CIOs with a creative mindset are winning out over those with an operational focus…
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