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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. Implication: need for change management and new organizational design. CIO roles will shift to governance & vendor management (perhaps even modeling supply-chain management). IT Financial Management. (4).

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Is Business-IT Alignment a Paradox? From Alignment to Engagement

Future of CIO

Some leading companies already move beyond the IT/business alignment stage, well jump into IT engagement era --more adapt to today's cloud/social/ mobile ecosystem, to brand IT less as a utility, more as a differentiator. IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.