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he resilient and evolutionary IT leader is nothing new in the
world of technology, the latest incarnation being the CIO. In fact, the role of the CIO has been in continual formation, evolving from “information systems manager” in the late 1970s and changing in each era of computing – Mainframe, Distributed Computing, Web and now Post-PC. At each step an IT leader assumed new responsibilities and the title changed accordingly. However, despite the technology differences spanning these eras, there is a sense that, for the most part, the IT leader role was fairly consistent across companies and industries which meant that whatever IT a company had, the CIO or IT director ran it.
Today’s IT leaders are operating at varying levels of the organisation, with differing and frequently changing missions. We are seeing increasingly divergent definitions for the role across companies and industry sectors. These are ominous conditions that could impact the CIO in a major way. There is now a very real possibility that the role of CIO could become a casualty due to a general lack of consensus as to what the title actually means and what exactly falls under the CIO’s remit.
The CIO’s current role is varied and involves a range of responsibilities from traditional provisioning of IT to ensuring the integrity of the
The changing CIO role: The next stage in the evolution of the IT leader
CIOs and other IT leaders could be forgiven for wondering what their roles will look like in the future in the increasingly cloud- centric IT landscape of 2012. The confluence of major forces for change – including cloud migration, outsourcing, ubiquitous computing and IT-enabled corporate strategy – has led to this form of self-reflection and created uncertainty about the next step in the evolving IT leader role. By Bryan Doerr, CTO, Savvis.
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www.dcseurope.info I March 2012
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