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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer

Harvard Business Review

Enterprise IT as we have known it is rapidly becoming obsolete, and the traditional role of the CIO is increasingly irrelevant. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. And if you don''t do it, someone else will. The New Role.

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Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.