The Center for CIO Leadership has taken the 2009 IBM CIO study and applied the Center’s education expertise to the study to help CIOs identify opportunities to advance their skills.

Center for CIO Leadership

Summary

In 2009 we worked with many of you to further our shared understanding of the competencies and skills CIOs require to advance their businesses today.  Your contributions have resulted in a new Center white paper, “Beyond the Crossroads: How Business-Savvy CIOs Enable Top-Performing Enterprises and How Top-Performing Enterprises Leverage Business-Savvy CIOs.”

This new perspective brings together two bodies of research – the Center’s competency research highlighted in The CIO Profession: Leaders of Change, Drivers of Innovation – and the 2009 IBM CIO study, The New Voice of the CIO. This paper highlights the progress that we, as a profession, have made in just a few short years and  shares advice and approaches from your CIO peers and fellow Center members on the skills and competencies necessary to become a Business-Savvy CIO.

Business-Savvy CIO  

The “new normal” –continued economic challenges and the expanded role of government, the increasing use of technology as a business enabler – are requiring CIOs to become Business-Savvy leaders and to drive growth and change through technology and process innovation.

This paper outlines the capabilities and competencies required of Business-Savvy CIOs and approaches to gathering those skills.  The Business-Savvy CIO possesses strong business acumen and is able to:

• Make innovation a practical reality
• Create a strong understanding of the ROI of IT
• Expand the business impact and influence of IT

Further Reading

You may also be interested in reading the blog post The Many Faces of the CIO from the blog The Total CIO written by Center member Andy Blumenthal.

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