7 WILL YOU NEED A CIO BY 2020?

Amitabh Apte, August 2011

The title of my new blog post is provocative. Why would I ask such a question, especially after covering a number of CIO surveys, trends and thought leaders and underlining the strategic importance of IT in this very blog?

I am asking this question because the IT landscape as you and I know it is changing, and changing fast. Even by IT industry standards, the pace of recent developments is remarkable. The business technology is undergoing rapid evolution. And the central argument I am presenting here is that the conventional role of CIO or CIO function as it stands today will either be ineffective, redundant or outdated and hence not required by the end of this decade. Let me explain… ...

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