Most firms will struggle to build on and benefit from new IT innovations, and the presence of a CIO might be to blame.
According to a guest blog at Venture Beat, the CIO is left to oversee the majority of decisions pertaining to IT in a large number of organisations, while presence of a CIO often enables the rest of the C-suite’s tech ignorance. When corporate hierarchy defines a role under which IT decisions can be siloed and relegates all things IT to the CIO, it perpetuates the belief that technological literacy is an exclusive realm, rather than one the executive team or entire business should occupy.
Also in in organisations that remove the CIO from the C-team, executives won’t be left floundering as cloud computing’s rise has empowered managed service providers to take on some of CIOs’ more intricate responsibilities, such as overseeing delicate legacy infrastructure.
