If business and IT aren't speaking the same language or even asking themselves and each other the right questions, they will be hard pressed to survive, much less lead, in an information-driven world.
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The first half of the Information Age was about building infrastructure and making processes more efficient. The second half will be about creating value from the information those processes produce. CIOs must acquire new skills to meet these new challenges.
It's time to enter the second half of the Information Age. The first half involved building the infrastructure, creating the software and setting up the pipelines that would get the data flowing. But now that the data is surging, what will the second half of the Information Age bring? To put their companies on top, CIOs must reposition IT as a strategic value creation function that is fueled by information. Read the full report.
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