Foreword by Filippo Passerini

One Monday morning in October 2012, a colleague mentioned that Phil Weinzimer wanted to interview me for his book titled The Strategic CIO: Changing the Dynamics of the Business Enterprise. When I learned the book would focus on how CIOs transform their IT organizations into a more strategic and business-focused asset, I wanted to know more.

In my more than 30 years at Procter & Gamble, I’ve been focused on transforming IT into a competitive advantage for our company. What I’ve seen, particularly in the past 10 years, is CIOs undergoing a sort of identity crisis. The pervasiveness of technology has created an environment where some CIOs are completely focused first on what to do with the technology rather than ...

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