CIO - Time is up or now is the time?!

In this age of digital, every company is becoming a technology company. It is disrupting the role of CIO. CIO faces many challenges while companies trying to reinvent to stay relevant. Let us discuss some of those challenges faced by a typical CIO and some suggestions later in this article to turn the tide for a win-win. Expectation mismatch - there is a ground reality that is completely in the opposite direction of what the company wants to achieve. Business is under tremendous pressure to meet the market demand. Customers are looking for value and quick solutions. And, there is an information overload around us projecting all the positives of digital transformation, without much detail on how the success was achieved. Most of the organizations learns the hard way that there is no one-size-fits-for-all approach exists. It may work differently in startups than in traditional companies. The pressure is now on CIO, with a question “they have done it, why not we?” Aging IT in...