Wednesday, February 9, 2011

10 New Questions for CIOs

1) What's your new technology adoption process?

2) Who focuses on the conceptualization of new business applications?

3) Is the current CIO role that combines ever more operational responsibility with stategic change sustainable?

4) Is your relationship to the chief influencers changing and are you one of them?

5) What parts of the CIO role warrant a seat at the C suite; what parts don't?

6) <placeholder> Is there any other significant enterprise spend less transparent the IT spend?

7) How do you balance risk with the need to change? And balance business risk with IT risk. Is the CIO disincented because of lights on responsbility from making changes in core operations?

8) Do you see any serious disruptions coming down the road that will cause a fundamental change in the CIO role?  What are they likely to be.

9) How much value do you place on deep understanding of transformational technologies like cloud, semantic Web, social media, big data, context-driven architecture? Do you have time to understand them? If not you, who? If someone else, who integrates the business and technology vision?

10) Is the push for CIOs to own shared services AND IT a push to being the CAO?  Can you be the CAO AND the head of IT R&D at the same time?





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