CIO — In our 13 years of conducting our annual State of the CIO survey, we’ve never seen anything quite like this year’s results. Our profession has become a house divided, with traditional service-provider CIOs on one side and business-focused, digital-strategist CIOs on the other.
“As we plow through this period of digital disruption, where established rules for competing may no longer apply, some CIOs now question what they want for themselves,” Managing Editor Kim S. Nash writes in our cover story (“State of the CIO 2014: The Great Schism”). “The profession is changing fast in an atmosphere where colleagues sometimes look upon a traditional IT group as a hindrance to corporate success.”
Nearly half of the 722 CIOs and IT leaders responding to our global survey say their IT groups are viewed by business colleagues primarily as cost centers or service providers. That’s a deflating statistic to report after so many years of strategic business talk from CIOs everywhere.
