The Role Of The CIO Is Evolving: Here’s What That Means For Businesses

The CIO has the opportunity to be a transformational leader who can aggressively leverage technology and data to drive business results. Here are two ways CIOs can be those leaders. For many companies, that’s exactly what the past two years have been. After all, navigating the roiling waters of a pandemic and then a rising sea of inflation has required some big pivots. And for businesses that rely on traditional problem-solving and legacy technology platforms, those pivots couldn’t happen quickly enough. The result has often been severe cost-cutting and layoffs. Not coincidentally, there’s been a concurrent development in the C-suite. Increasingly, companies are calling on the chief information officer (CIO) to expand their function beyond managing IT and play a more strategic role in defining the organization’s future. After all, technology has become ingrained in almost every part of every type of business.