CIOs Are Emerging as Vital Business Influencers
The CIO as Chief ‘Integration’ Officer
CIOs increasingly have to harness emerging, disruptive tech to serve business. As lead enterprise integrators, they ensure that digital, analytical and cloud efforts aren’t redundant or conflicting, and don’t compromise organizational investment.
A Sharper Market Focus
CIOs work closely with CMOs to acquire tools which elevate automation, content development, customer analytics and other market-driving capabilities. The result: greater customer connectivity and engagement.
The New IT Employee
Traditional credentials and certifications no longer matter as much in this fast-shifting IT and business environment. CIOs will place more value into hands-on skills–especially among employees who are quick to learn new ones.
The Dawning of the API Economy
Application programming interfaces (APIs) were once considered development tools. Now, tech departments turn to them to help reuse, share and monetize their company’s core assets.
A Spotlight on Ambient Computing
This refers to the sensors, devices, intelligence and agents which make the Internet of things (IoT) work. To successfully bring them together, you’ll need superior analytics/data, security and integration capabilities.
Software-Defined Everything
The virtualization of all things IT–computing, networking, storing and securing–not only saves money and improves productivity, but it boosts agility in IT service delivery.
A Renaissance Era
Core systems are getting makeovers, as IT modernizations pay down technical debt, remove barriers to scale and performance, extend legacy infrastructure and fuel the innovation of new services and offerings.
Amplified Intelligence
No longer limited to a few IT specialists, analytics-driven intelligence is now in the hands of general users, who take advantage of mobile, wearable and contextual solutions to make better predictions about future business opportunities.