Across industries, CIOs are the executives increasingly seen as the leaders of innovation and key players in helping CEOs develop overall strategy, according to a recent survey from IT research and advisory firm Gartner.
"Growth is very clearly king in this year's business priorities with 33 percent of respondents naming growth as their top priority," said Mark Raskino, vice president and Gartner fellow, in the news release. "IT-related issues, including mentions of digital, were also much more prominent this year with 7 percent of CEOs ranking IT as one of their top priorities… This supports a broader observation that CEOs are taking a higher personal interest in applying technology more aggressively in their firms."
Growth-focused companies are turning to technology, and by extension technology leaders, to an extent not seen since the end of the 1990s, according to Gartner. This renewed focus on technology, with a new emphasis on big data and cloud-based services, will continue to transform CIOs into strategic executives and provide them an opportunity to shape their organization's future.
"One of the most important things the CIO can do over the next year or two is close the very big gap in understanding, by working on education for the board, executives, senior and middle management layers," said Mr. Raskino in the release.
Survey results were based on responses from 410 leaders from Gartner's client companies, collected between September and December 2013.
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