CIOs have an opportunity to play a more strategic or transformative role within the enterprise than ever before, Jim Houghton, CSC’s Chief Technology Officer for the Americas Region, told the audience at CIO Perspectives in November. Instead of just aligning with the business, CIOs can become strategic, disruptive forces driving change and growth for the business.
In his keynote address, Houghton discussed how after years of belt tightening, CIOs are now investing in tomorrow. He also shared results from the CSC Global CIO Survey (conducted with IDG Research Services), that show how “innovative technology executives plan to lead their companies into a brighter business future.”
“If all you do is keep the lights on, guess what, you’re not particularly valuable to your organization,” Houghton says. “What you really need to do is think about how you can take opportunities to engage on the front end with your business constituencies … and use opportunities that are funded as ways to get yourself out of that ‘keep the lights on in the data center’ approach.”
Click on the link below to listen to Houghton’s CIO Perspectives keynote presentation, and learn more about what it means to be a disruptive CIO.
