Survey: The CIO of the future

A new survey by CIO Insight finds that instead of focusing on IT projects, ensuring data quality and defining IT architecture, the CIO's role will continue to shift toward creating strategy and exploring new ways of using information and emerging technologies. But since CIOs will step back from overseeing day-to-day operations, process improvement, data quality, projects, standards and architecture issues, they will need to delegate more responsibility to other IT executives. The survey, of 291 executives also found that CIOs will still come primarily from the professional ranks of IT, and generally will advance by excelling as project managers or by serving as liaisons, consultants or business analysts. The survey also found that one-third of CIOs consider their role to be creating business strategy, while two-thirds believe their role is to execute strategy. Half report that contributing to developing strategy has become more important at evaluation time, too. Finally, CIO compensation will continue to rise.

Read more about the CIO of the future:
- read the article at CIO Insight