A central theme we’ve been exploring as part of The Enterprisers Project is around the role of the CIO, and how it seems to be evolving beyond what was traditionally encompassed by the word “Information.”
70% of CEOs go outside their company replace CIOs. Are CEOs are over-reaching in their desire to handpick heads of IT? Or are CIOs not doing a good job of succession planning?
At the recent CIO 100 Symposium and Awards Ceremony in Colorado Springs, we spent a good deal of time discussing the role of the CIO in enterprise organizations. Nearly everyone we spoke to agreed the requirements for CIOs are expanding, transforming and encompassing much more than simply Information Technology.
GE’s Jack Welch often said if a large company is going to survive in a competitive world, it needs to start learning how to think and act like a small one. Today’s world is hypercompetitive and start-ups are reinventing the marketplace on what seems to be a weekly basis.
If innovation is to be stimulated and its output exploited in your IT organization, and company at large, a process is essential to capture, analyze, select and implement the best ideas out there.
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