Survey uncovers new challenges ahead for tomorrow's CIOs

Organisations continue to demand business innovation and technology vision from CIOs while looking to them for leadership across a broad range of issues, new research has revealed.

The study by InformationWeek found that that the most important issues for 80 per cent of respondents are leadership, effective execution, collaboration, vision, innovation and team building.

It was also revealed that 78 per cent believe that the need to optimise business processes will drive CIOs' influence as leaders.

The report suggested that future generations of CIOs will need a different skill set to master their roles – in particular, experience outside of IT is becoming increasingly significant, with 36 per cent of respondents citing this as "very important" and 58 per cent saying it is "valuable but not critical".

Commenting, Art Wittmann, managing director of InformationWeek Analytics, said there was a "dichotomy developing around the perception of the CIO".

"Where some organisations see a competitive advantage in their IT organisations, others suffer from the legacy perception that IT is a cost to be minimised.

"Increasingly it's up to the CIO to prove the worth of IT investments."

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