How CIOs Can Survive CEO Tech Envy
CIO, Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
CEOs have every reason to expect IT leaders to make unrealistic technology expectations happen. Simplifying IT may be the only way to cope.
CEOs used to think, 'All IT has to do is just write a program.' It was up to the CIO to explain why, in IT-land, the word 'just' really ought to be banned.
Then CEO tech literacy happened. It mostly happened, not because CIOs became better at explaining what IT is all about, but because 'Digital' happened. Except that Digital didn't end up meaning what many commentators said it meant.