Why CIOs Fail -- And How They Can Avoid It
InformationWeek, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Combinations of being prisoner to one's past, wanting to please, and failures to communicate can doom chief information officers. It doesn't have to be that way.
It's never been harder to be a chief information officer. You have the demands of major digital-transformation projects that far too often fail to fully deliver on their promise. You have the give and take between user convenience and IT security in an era when, thanks to ransomware, breaches have never been more costly. You have talent gaps and budget limitations.
And, you have unremitting requests from business units amid the emergence of generative AI, which has had the effect of releasing squirrels at a dog show.