As widely reported by Gathering Clouds friend barb Darrow and others CIOs are facing some big challenges. Just look at what the CIO has to deal with today as compared to 5 years ago: diminishing budgets, the stress of securing greater results, cloud adoption, big data, legacy apps, and to top it all off increased overlap with the line of business in terms of mandate.
As we previously discussed, the CIO’s territory is increasingly shared with many among the line of business, especially in the cloud era: Whether its CRM tools like Salesforce for sales, automation platforms for marketing, BYOD or big data analytics apps for a range of different parts of the organization, the CIO has to tie everything together. On top of this, the CEO and CFO now have a greater say in how budgets and projects occur for IT. In essence, the CIO is being asked to do a lot more with a lot less for many more stakeholders.