Report: CIOs stretched too thin

According to a recently released report from Gartner, CIOs say that they are pulled in two directions by the need to meet new enterprise requirements and other increasing demands on their time. The report identified several time-consuming tasks CIOs engage in that reduce value, and noted that if CIOs and IT leaders stopped doing them, they would gain more time in which to improve their performance. First, stop being the budget-priority police and stop spending so much time rationalizing the requests of individual business units for tools and services. Second, stop using enterprise architecture as a design specification instead of a strategy. Third, focus on business performance and stop communicating using IT metrics. Show on a continuous basis how the IT organization is contributing to business value. Stop defining services in technical rather than business terms. Stop the proliferation of applications, infrastructure and IT governance committees, which can be a resource drain. Stop adding new complexity and instead focus on rationalizing the established infrastructure, and stop apologizing for past problems. Choose the work items that deliver the most benefit to CIOs.

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