CIOs Role in Digital Transformation

Decode how CIOs and IT leaders can become digital and business strategy agents for organizations

4 Actions to Ensure Your Tech Investments Pay Digital Dividends in 2023

Gartner research shows that 80% of CEOs are increasing digital technology investments to counter current economic pressures, including inflation, scarce talent and supply constraints. Of course, CIOs and other technology executives will be tasked with executing digital IT strategy.

Despite many in-progress digital initiatives, few are yet delivering the digital dividends that senior leadership expects. The 2023 Gartner CIO Agenda identifies four actions that CIOs can take to accelerate impact and deliver the digital dividends that senior leadership expects.

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The New Art of Cultivating High-Performing Teams

The radical change in people's mindset toward work has shifted the expectations of employees and leadership, and CIOs are actively seeking guidance to help them deliver equitable and inclusive collaboration experiences for their teams. In this complimentary webinar, a Gartner expert lays out the seven characteristics of a high-performing team to help you foster team unity and improve performance.

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Discover the characteristics of high performance teams
How the digital workplace cultivates team unity
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Building and maintaining high performing teams has become increasingly critical for organizations to successfully operate in remote work environments and collectively achieve business objectives.

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VP Analyst, Gartner

Achieve your business priorities

CIOs today are facing unprecedented challenges to improve business outcomes, transform business models, modernize technology and enhance customer experience. Gartner supports CIOs and technology leaders by providing actionable, objective insights that enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance.

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Gartner Digital Execution Scorecard™

The Gartner Digital Execution Scorecard™ provides CIOs and top technology executives a comprehensive set of digital strategy benchmarks to accelerate decision-making and drive execution.

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How we address the top CIO challenges

With technology becoming a major enabler for businesses, the role of the CIO is evolving from technology expert to business strategist. With increasing expectations, CIOs today are facing unprecedented challenges to improve business outcomes, transform business models, modernize technology and enhance customer experience. Our insights, advice and tools helps CIOs find solutions to their most pressing challenges and help learn about the latest developments that matter to a CIO the most.

Build an IT Strategic Plan That You Will Actually Use

Fit organizations — those that perform well in any market condition — distinguish themselves because they are great at creating, articulating, and executing strategies to maximizes results. Use this strategic planning guide to turn strategy into action.

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Accelerate Digital for Future-Ready Business

Enhanced customer engagement and value are the top expected outcomes from digital business investment. Use these frameworks for composable tech, empowered customers and the future of work to deliver digital acceleration for your organization.

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The IT Roadmap for Digital Business Transformation

The Gartner IT Roadmap for Digital Transformation is based on unbiased research and interactions with thousands of organizations across all industries and sectors. CIOs and IT leaders can avoid common pitfalls and lead smart, effective digital transformation by following best practices.

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The Art of the 1-Page Strategy

Developing a strategy has become easier, with 15 pages replacing hundreds, but even 15 pages too many when trying to engage an enterprise in business growth. This complimentary webinar explores the Art of the One-page Strategy, showing you how to use storytelling to articulate business strategy and success.

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CIO role questions Gartner can help answer

What are the roles and responsibilities of a CIO?

Digital ideation and delivery: Identify, test and scale the most promising digital business ideas within business budget.
Digital foundation building: Manage cross-cutting platforms and integration.
Traditional IT management: Manage legacy infrastructure, security and core enterprise.
General business management: Work with business leaders to shape the organization’s approach to digital business transformation and build the digital dexterity of leaders.

How do CIOs transform into business enterprise leaders?

With the rapid rate of digital transformation changing the face of enterprises globally, the role of the CIO is also transforming. Insular IT management is a thing of the past, with CIOs now a linchpin in the C-suite, educating and guiding business leaders on ownership of critical digital responsibilities to help accelerate digital business progress.

Moving into the future, CIOs will have to cement that critical inclusion in business leadership as management develops more advanced digital dexterity.

Taking a more holistic view of business strategy and transformation instead of just IT, CIOs will need to shift their focus to building the digital competencies of general managers and overseeing implementation and growth of digital strategy.

Why do CIOs need to shift their focus to digital and business transformation?

In 2019, 82% of businesses surveyed had a digital transformation plan in place. Having embraced the importance of technology in the changing face of business, organizations are now developing leaders with their own IT and digital talent to progress with business initiatives, unreliant on IT teams for delivery or implementation. While this is welcomed news for business growth, the traditional role of IT management or CIOs has rapidly changed.

To maintain their hard-fought influence in the C-suite, CIOs will need to redefine their teams and approaches to business integration. All of IT will need to shift focus to educating business partners on emerging technologies, coaching business partners on iterative development methodologies and helping business partners understand integration requirements to remain relevant to an organization’s growth strategy.

As the digital dexterity of the workforce grows, CIOs need to ensure they’re delivering more than just IT advice to an organization.