Hang on a minute. Last I checked, most CIOs had authority over the IT spending in their organisations, and a majority of you (68 per cent) were members of the C-suite’s executive committee. That’s data drawn from a survey of 729 IT leaders one year ago in our annual State of the CIO survey.
It is amazing to me how much we talk about business process when in reality we understand very little about it.
In the early 1990s, before the browser and search wars, Bill Gates was asked to identify Microsoft's biggest competitor. His answer was a surprise: "Goldman Sachs."
At a recent event, I posed a question that caught the roomful of CIOs off guard. We were talking about cloud computing and how a study by CIO's sister magazine Computerworld found that while it's currently the most overhyped technology, it's also one of the top three most important technologies for 2011.