Dive Brief:
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The CIO's job is increasingly challenging given today’s rapidly shifting IT landscape, according to a survey of over 3,000 CIOs and IT leaders conducted by Harvey Nash and KPMG.
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The role is increasingly about helping the business run more efficiently and keeping costs down rather than just keeping systems running, according to the survey.
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CEOs, meanwhile, are pushing for IT projects that make money. The discrepancy between the two roles can cause tensions, the study found.
Dive Insight:
The survey found that the most successful CIOs increasingly walk a fine line between ensuring the company’s IT stability and pushing for innovation. But innovation comes with challenges, too. The survey found that only about 50% of all IT projects succeed.
Among the biggest CIOs challenges: areas outside of IT (marketing or finance, for example) that are increasingly controlling how the company’s tech budget is spent.
The report also found continuing support for cloud adoption primarily for its ability to “enable agility and responsiveness, system availability and innovation." The most commonly cited challenges to cloud adoption were security and data integration.
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