The CIO's New Role: Orchestrator-In-Chief
Information Week, Monday, December 4,2023
CIOs have unique insight into everything that happens in a company. Some are using that insight to take on a more strategic role.
CIOs today find themselves in a unique position to survey everything taking place across their organization, find opportunities, resolve conflicts, set priorities, and help shape strategy. In other words, they are uniquely situated to function as their companies' de facto orchestrators-in-chief.
'It's really only the CIO and the CEO who have this perspective,' says Irving Tyler, distinguished research vice president with Gartner's CIO Research team. 'The CIO has a deeper perspective because it's in the execution aspect, not just the bigger-picture strategic perspective.'