Cio As A Strategist

Strategist: The CIO, as a strategist, partners with the business to align business and IT strategies and maximize the value of technology investments. The CIO’s main objective as a strategist is to ensure that IT can effectively fulfill its role in enabling the company’s strategies for growth or market positioning. The strategist role also entails informing the business about how IT can enable distinctive capabilities that drive new revenues, create opportunities such as serving new customers or markets, or provide new flexibility to navigate potentially adverse events and risks. One CIO fulfilled this role by helping his company become the industry’s M&A leader. He pushed for the adoption of a middleware strategy that positioned the company