What's Holding CTOs Back?
CIO, Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Internal politics, organizational culture, and funding issues top the list of issues derailing CTOs' change agenda - so too does demonstrating the value of innovation.
Anurag Dhingra is no stranger to the challenges CTOs face today.
With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey, and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot.
Among the toughest hurdles Dhingra faced in a prior CTO position were not having execution responsibilities and having to 'work extra hard selling ideas and getting buy-in from people who have budgets and execution responsibilities,' he recalls.