Survey: CIOs Seen As Business Visionaries

The latest research from Optimize magazine, which polled 575 senior business and technology professionals, reveals that CIOs are gaining recognition as business visionaries and are helping to shape business strategy within their companies. Indeed, 56 percent of those surveyed see the CIO's influence on the rise, while 78 percent think that the CIO will become much more of a business leader in the near term. The survey also shows that companies and their CIOs continue to focus on how best to migrate away from maintenance IT and toward a focus on innovation. Tony Scott, CIO at Walt Disney, agrees with the findings: "I certainly see the role expanding, both for myself and across the industry," Scott told Optimize. "Everything [in IT] is inextricably linked with the center of business."

For more on the survey results:
- see this article from Information Week