The Lazy CIO's Guide To Better It Investment
CIO, Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
Best practices aren't. Best, that is. Wise CIOs practice them anyway - by setting the bar lower and then jumping real high.
If you're like most CIOs, you're under pressure to introduce exciting new technological capabilities to the enterprise at large, promoting visions of digital transformation, generative AI, AGI, AI transformation, agentic AI, or some other version of being an FBC CIO - that's 'Fully Buzzword Compliant' for those who haven't joined the AFC ('Acronymic Fan Club').
You're under this pressure unless you've given up and relinquished responsibility for formulating the organization's technology vision to a chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or some other titled individual whose job is to make promises you as CIO are supposed to keep.
Don't do that.