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Story: Gartner: Seven IT challenges to change the world

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CIO or CTO?

I think the fact that so many of these concern technology development itself rather than the effective application/management of technology is probably a fair reflection that we have focused far too much on the latter in the last decade or so.

This is underlined by the organisational changes around CIO responsibility. Many companies ditched/down-graded technology ownership (e.g. CTO, Technical Director or the technical aspects of a CIO role) in favour of business-alignment, financial excellence etc.

Personally I agree with the latter - the CIO should, by definition, focus on the value of information management (and, in conjuction with the HR Director, knowledge management).

This means the CTO role (however it may be filled) becomes all the more crucial to drive innovation and technological exploitation. This is where we have lost the plot a little and, to meet the challenges outlined here, will need to play catch-up.

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