Ask The Expert: How CIOs Prove Business Value
InformationWeek, Thursday, October 30th, 2025
How can the CIO demonstrate positive business impact, when many of the variables that affect success fall outside IT's direct control?
Today's CIOs are expected to do more than simply enable business value -- they're responsible for driving and accounting for it. Yet, many find that external factors frustrate the level of impact they can achieve, whether it's shadow IT or the underutilization of deployed systems and software. To tackle this pressing issue, InformationWeek asked three IT leaders for their takes on how CIOs demonstrate business value. The short answer: Calculations can't be done in a vacuum.