Winning Over IT Value Skeptics: CIO Job No. 1
CIO, Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Helping key stakeholders understand the IT value creation process is the key to staving off post-mortems of IT projects gone wrong.
To succeed, CIOs need to be perceived as value creators. At the beating core of any great IT organization is the ability to deconstruct the various technological components, management processes, and mental models necessary to maximize business value today.
Career realpolitik tells us that deep in the back of the minds of the board of directors, executive peers, and rank-and-file employees is a subliminal, never-ending question of whether every dollar spent on IT generates a positive - let alone multiplying - return.