5 Tips For Future-Proofing Your IT Leadership Career
CIO, Monday, September 8th, 2025
Technological advances are rapidly changing the business landscape, impacting roles across the enterprise - including the CIOs. Here's how to keep a step ahead.
Back in 2009 George Westerman and Richard Hunter introduced the idea of the CIO Plus in their book The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value.
Westerman says what he and Hunter noticed at the time was that the CIO role was expanding in both its responsibilities and its ability to make an impact.
Now, 15 years later, Westerman says the CIO role continues to expand. It's still in charge of infrastructure, and it often owns transformation. It should have strategy, too. It should become more visionary, too, looking around corners to learn about emerging technology and figuring out how their organizations will be impacted by it.