The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: CIOs as “Chief Instrument Officer” Aug. 2018 ~ Future of CIO

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The Monthly “CIO Master” Book Tuning: CIOs as “Chief Instrument Officer” Aug. 2018

11:07 PM Pearl Zhu No comments

In the digital era, high mature CIOs are “Chief Instrument Officers,” who can lead changes and orchestrate digital transformation effortlessly.

Comparing to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. Here are a set of blogs to brainstorm CIOs as “Chief Instrument Officer.”

CIOs as “Chief Instrument Officer”

The CIO as “Chief Instrument Officer”: How to Lead Changes and Orchestrate Digital Transformation Effortlessly Every forward-thinking organization claim they are in the information management business, nowadays IT plays a critical role in the business growth and digital transformation. Within a mature organization, the CIO is a leadership role which requires the breadth of the business knowledge and the depth of technical insight. What determines the level of the CIO position is the impact they have made across the company and even industry, and hence their reputation, their reporting line, their title, hopefully further to their achievements, rather than their mere contribution for the company bottom line that helped them reach the current level. In the digital era, high mature CIOs are “Chief Instrument Officers,” who can lead changes and orchestrate digital transformation effortlessly.

CIOs as "Chief Instrument Officer": Embracing the Creative Side of IT to Make Digital Leap? Many traditional IT organizations are perceived as a support center or an isolated function with “geeky image,” equipped with monolithic hardware, led via command and control management style, suffered from overloading tasks and even experienced the “brain drain.” Nowadays, IT is impacting every business unit and is becoming the driver of the business change and digital transformation. Besides scientific nature, how to embrace the creative side of IT to reinvent its contemporary image and make the digital leap?

CIOs as “Chief Instrument Officer” How to Define, Refine, and Scale IT Digital Transformation Due to fast-paced changes and exponential growth of information. IT becomes more critical in leading business innovation and transformation. IT has to reinvent itself to exemplify proficiency in planning, designing, innovating, and building the new business model, as well as refining or scaling IT digital transformation. At today’s information-driven business dynamic, there’s no shortage of problems to tackle, it’s all about to be able to get all the way around the task, to see it from all interests. CIOs need to be bold and innovative, define and refine IT to get digital ready.

CIOs as "Chief Instrument Officer": How to Run Digital IT Effortlessly? IT organization is making a shift from transactional mode to transformational mode. It goes beyond the stage of IT-business alignment and moves up to the level of integration and engagement. Nowadays, a digital-ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and catalyzer of business changes. CIOs should shift their leadership mentality from “struggling to keep the lights on” to “thriving to run digital IT effortlessly.”

CIOs as "Chief Instrument Officer": Mastering the Complexity of the Digital CIO Role ? Due to the abundance of information and omnipresence of technologies, IT plays a pivotal role in the business’s digital transformation journey. Therefore, digital CIOs have to wear multiple hats and play different roles in the information-abundant organizations today. Nowadays, the CIO is not just managing IT to keep the lights on, but managing information to ensure the right people getting the right information at the right time to make the right decisions; and take visionary leadership in orchestrating digital transformation journey smoothly. Transformation means to change the “nature” of something, albeit that the increasing pace of technological advances has clearly impacted the nature and scope of opportunities, digital transformation represents a break with the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. So how can IT leaders master the complexity of the digital CIO role in order to lead effortlessly?