IT Strategy

Another key area where the CIO can strengthen the business is by staying connected to new and exciting tech topics.

IT can play a vital role in strengthening the organization by exploring new technologies, identifying and penetrating new markets, using data to empower product development and helping the organization lead rather than follow.

Strengthen

Additionally, IT must sharpen its pencil as it finds ways to identify non-value-added activities and drive out costs. IT must optimize its budget and assist other departments with analytics to help reduce their costs as well.

The CIO must look for ways to sharpen the enterprise. This sharpening takes two forms: insight and cost.

Sharpen Sharpen is the next responsibility of the IT organization. The CIO must look for ways to sharpen the enterprise. This sharpening takes two forms: insight and cost.

This point is controversial in many enterprises because standardization sounds like the imposition of restrictions such as which devices or applications to use. Standardization is indeed restrictive. It is restrictive by design. Supporting every conceivable option creates an impractical burden. Moreover, supporting anything and everything would hin

Simplify Supplementing that support, IT adds value when it helps the business simplify. Simplification might be a rationalization of the customer, part and supplier databases, or it could be a streamlining of how users interact with corporate data. Simplification is important because complexity is expensive to maintain.

Shepherd. Steward.