The effective CIO
An interesting article from Harvard Business School on the
changing role of the CIO (If you can get past the title).
In short: successful utilization of IT is about delivering business value. To do this CIOs have to be able to think and act much more widely than they have traditionally done - to embrace and advise on the business possibilities and impacts associated with technology change, as well as embracing and advising on the technology possibilities and impacts associated with business change.
This is something we talk about a lot, and it's good to see a respected voice like HBS' talking about the same things.
