The CIO Balancing Act: Manage Costs, Grow Business, Leverage Information, Lead People

A turbulent global economy has ratcheted up the pressure on CIOs to manage more with less. Today’s global CIO is judged against performance standards that have direct influence on business success. As a result, CIOs continue to walk a delicate line and must have fundamental awareness of how their strategic leadership succeeds in four key performance areas:

• Manage Costs: The ability to skillfully manage consolidation, virtualization, process improvements, and smarter sourcing.
• Grow Business: The new CIO must also be innovative and profit-aware, with urgent new emphasis on improving the customer experience.
• Leverage Information: The “I” in “CIO” is rising in importance, as enterprises seek out technology leaders who can cost-effectively and responsively move from provider of data to provider of strategic, useful, and high-quality information.
• Lead People: Members of the IT team must now have multiple talents. CIOs are charged with finding and keeping people worldwide with “hybrid” skills where IT knowledge and business acumen combine to produce higher value to the enterprise. Locating and training younger employees remains a growing challenge.

The third annual Ziff Davis Enterprise Digital CIO Summit Virtual Tradeshow will explore the interweaving nature of these four imperatives by getting first-hand insight on how CIOs are balancing responsibilities that at times may conflict, change from business unit to business unit, or become politicized. Our program will seek to drive peer-driven dialogue about the evolving power of the CIO and the influence this will have on technology acquisition issues, budgeting, and alignment. Our exclusive half-day online event will provide robust thought leadership via the insight of award-winning Ziff Davis Enterprise editors, Global 2000 CIOs, authors, researchers, and market commentators.