CIO Best Practices
Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology
Chapter One
Harnessing IT to Drive
Enterprise Strategy
BY MICHAEL HUGOS
To put it plainly, the chief information officer (or CIO) in any enterprise
is the person responsible for two things. One is a thankless task and the other
is a high-risk undertaking. The thankless task is to make sure the enterprise
systems infrastructure is operating correctly and efficiently 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. The high-risk undertaking is to continually evolve and
enhance that infrastructure so that it remains properly aligned and able to
deliver what the enterprise needs to drive its evolving business strategy. This
chapter explores ways that strategically minded CIOs respond to and handle
the many elements of risk th ... read full excerpt from CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology ebook
